Gerald Jayson, Edith Bown and Robert Sugar: articles on the Jewish refugee farm Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland 1990-2005

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Gerald Jayson, Edith Bown and Robert Sugar: articles on the Jewish refugee farm Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland 1990-2005

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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

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Sugar, Robert

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Bown - Edith - née Jacobowitz

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Edith Bown (née Jacobowitz) and her brother Gerald Jayson (formerly Jacobowitz) escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport. Their final destination of their journey from Berlin to the UK was the Belfast refugee hostel. They were soon placed at the Jewish refugee farm in Millisle, County Down, through the help of their parents' contacts with the Belfast Refugee Aid Committee. Prior to September 1939 the farm used to be a Jewish agricultural training school. With the arrival of the ref...