{"id":133,"date":"2020-05-20T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/new\/?p=133"},"modified":"2025-03-16T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:35:54","slug":"the-british-committee-for-refugees-from-czechoslovakia-bcrc-czech-refugee-trust-fund-crtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/the-british-committee-for-refugees-from-czechoslovakia-bcrc-czech-refugee-trust-fund-crtf-133\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC), Czech Refugee Trust Fund (CRTF)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Calling all descendants of former Czech\/Slovak\/Hungarian refugees who came to Britain and found refuge in the&nbsp;CRTF&nbsp;hostels in Margate, Kent in August\/September 1939, or later transferred to the&nbsp;CRTF&nbsp;hostel in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katharine Whitaker, family historian, whose father Mikl\u00f3s Majer (anglicised to Nicholas Mayer) left Czechoslovakia with help from&nbsp;CRTF&nbsp;and was given refuge at West Ham Hostel in Margate, is searching for descendants, especially descendants of Czech\/Slovak refugees who returned to Czechoslovakia after World War 2 but subsequently left again in 1948\/9 and 1968\/9 and emigrated to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katharine Whitaker is interested in learning more about their experiences of leaving Czechoslovakia in 1939, arrival in Britain, life in the hostels, how they found work during World War 2 and reasons for returning to Czechoslovakia after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact Katharine Whitaker by emailing:&nbsp;&nbsp;margate1939@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all descendants of former Czech\/Slovak\/Hungarian refugees who came to Britain and found refuge in the&nbsp;CRTF&nbsp;hostels in Margate, Kent in August\/September 1939, or later transferred to the&nbsp;CRTF&nbsp;hostel in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey in 1940. Katharine Whitaker, family historian, whose father Mikl\u00f3s Majer (anglicised to Nicholas Mayer) left Czechoslovakia with help from&nbsp;CRTF&nbsp;and was given refuge at West Ham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","branch-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cssk.ca\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}