Male enemy alien - Exemption from internment - Refugee
Surname: Spielmann
Forename: Manele
Alias: -
Date and place of birth: 31/08/1901 in Radlow, Poland
Nationality: Stateless
Police Regn. Cert. No.: 711568
Home Office ref: C915 S35096
Address: Kitchener camp, Richborough, Sandwich, Kent
Normal occupation: Salesman
Present occupation:
Name and address of employer: -
Decision of tribunal: Exempted "C" & 9A Date 12.10.1939
Whether exempted from Article 6(A): Yes
Whether desires to be repatriated: No
Hand-written notes: Interned Circular 21.06.1940
Release authorised Category 3
Released 16.10.1940
Source: National Archives, Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index, 1939-1947.
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Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, Permisison to take wedding rings out of Germany, Berlin, 3 June 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, Railway ticket, Mitteleuropäisches Reisebüro, Berlin to Sandwich for wife Debora and daughter Elli, 18 July 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, American Consulate General, London, Immigration Department, 28 August 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, Permit to leave camp, Home Office approval 16 December 1939, For Camden from 27 December 1939 to 29 December 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, Permit to leave camp, Home office approval, Leave ‘for good’ 28 December 1939Submitted by the Faerber family for Manele Spielmann
Letters
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Camp number 1736
Hut 9/II
Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland, Hubert Pollard, 19 May 1929Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Berlin Police chief, Polizeipräsidenten Berlin, Polish passport expired, 6 July 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, German Jewish Aid Committee, Bloomsbury House, Sheridan Russell, Guarantee for release from camp, 4 August 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Child in need of support, Only receiving 6 pence per week, 22 August 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Hut 9/II, Camp number 1736, Overseas Settlement office, Communication Form 15 from American Consulate General, London, Transfer of registration papers from Germany to London, R H Engel, ndKitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Terms of Leave, Jonas May, Camp DirectorKitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Red Cross, Enquiry after mother in Tarnow, Poland, 5 October 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Camp number 1736, Richborough Tribunal number 3, Passed C category, 13 October 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Rescued Berlin Sejfer Thora, Sefer Torah, Hut synagogue, 31 December 1939
What follows is a file of information that Manele put together, which exemplifies how vulnerable to abuse people sadly become when they must throw themselves on the mercy others in the most of extreme of circumstances.
In this instance, we do not now what the outcomes of these events were, nor whether there is surviving family. With the permission of the family, we have redacted the name of the person who seems to have behaved very badly indeed towards Manele and his family. In their hour of need this man seems to have swindled them out of the money they needed for their guarantee.
Here, he is referred to as Mr W.
Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Rented room for wife and child, Charles Hairdressers, Camden, London, 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Mr W has given £50 guarantee, 26 October 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Attempting to secure release from camp, 31 October 1939Kitchener camp, Letter, Manele Spielmann, Bloomsbury House communication to try to gain release, 2 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, EnvelopeKitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Home Office, Bloomsbury House, assurance of release soon, 9 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Mr Russell, Bloomsbury House, Request for further information, 15 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Mr May, Camp Director, Applicaiton for extension of leave on guarantee, Professor Norman Bentwich, Medical certificate, 16 November 1939, page 1Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Mr May, Camp Director, Applicaiton for extension of leave on guarantee, Professor Norman Bentwich, Medical needs, Labour Exchange, Birmingham, 16 November 1939, page 2Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Receipt document, 18 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Leave extended, medical certificate enclosed, 20 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, Medical report, Dr Gilbert Martin, Sandwich, 10 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Overseas Settlement Office, Request for proof of £40 guarantee, Proof of attempt to obtain visa for Chile, 22 November 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Overseas Settlement Office, Camp number 1736, Hut 9/II, American Consulate General, London, Berlin, registered for visa under Polish quota on 14 July 1938, Application to emigrate to USA, 4 December 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Attempt to emigrate to Chile, 13 December 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Jewish Refugees Committee, Bloomsbury House, Luggage, Permit for UK entry, Amount earned, Francis Bendit, 18 December 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, permit to leave camp, Home office approval 16 December 1939, For Camden 27 December 1939 to 29 December 1939, Leave ‘for good’ 28 December 1939 – Version 3Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Document, permit to leave camp, Home office approval 16 December 1939, For Camden 27 December 1939 to 29 December 1939, Leave ‘for good’ 28 December 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, reference, Arrival at camp 31 May 1939, Kitchen group, Diligent worker, 21 December 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Mr W, 12 January 1940Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, 8 April 1940Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Request for return of £30, Birmingham, 1940Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, letter, Solicitor, Bloomsbury House, Public Assistance Office, Funding assistance, 11 June 1939Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Letter, Solicitor, Bloomsbury House, Guarantee not received, Police matter, 14 June 1939This file of letters and documents was kindly submitted by the Faerber family for Manele Spielmann
Photographs
Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, Views of Aachen, en route to England, 1939
Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, With a friend called Katz, 1939
Kitchener camp, Manele Spielmann, With a friend called Katz, 1939
