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Susan Snyder: This is a trunk which was used by a German family who fled Nazi Germany after
1938 to Mombasa, to Kenya. It was a trunk that they put many of their belongings in;
they had other things as well. The sisters who donated the trunk were very small at the
time. They were both under the age of ten. They fled after Kristallnacht. The family
remained intact. Nobody was arrested on Kristallnacht, and they had a cousin who was in Kenya, and
they decided that this was a way for them to flee to safe haven quickly. When they went
to Kenya it was grandparents, parents, children, extended family, and they basically picked
up right where they left off. The grandchildren, the two sisters that donated the trunk, Inge
and Jill, went to school in Kenya and they tell really amazing stories about the time
period in Cologne, the time period fleeing, what it was like in Kenya.