27th March 1943
KLV-Lager, Lipthal
Commercial cover sent from Fr. Justic (chocolate confectionery wholesaler), in Prague to Sister (? - Schw.) Horuanska, at the KLV-Lager school, Lipthal (Liptál in the Czech Republic). Note: there is at least one other cover (as seen on the internet) that is from Fr. Justic to another KLV-Lager. Ref: 27.03.1943
KLV-Lager, Lipthal
Although not addressed on the present envelope, KLV-Lager Lipthal ad the identification prefix Pro/217
From: Stichting Werkgroep Herkenning
I am currently preparing a new series of the NTR television program “Verborgen Verleden”.
An ancestor I am researching appears on a list of 200 Rotterdam students aged 12-15 years who were eligible for a three-month trip in the summer of 1944 to Böhmen – Mähren [now the Czech Republic) organized by the Dutch People's Service. I'm trying to find out more about how this group fared on their trip to Germany. The story in the family is that he only returned to the Netherlands after the war.
The Rotterdam group was part of a transport of 600 children from The Hague and Amsterdam, among others. They left on June 30, 1944 with transport number KI 23. There are accounts of the journey, which was very tiring. The boy in question is housed at KLV Lager Lipthal near Westin, in a school. The daycare is quite messy. They were supposed to go for about three months, but that is approximately the period when the fighting increases and, among other things, Operation Market Garden starts. I can imagine that this group did indeed only return after the war.
Note: Westin = should be Wsetin. Now Vsetí, Czech Republic.
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