Henry Karle
A German WW1 internee at Alexandra Palace who died there and was buried in New Southgate Cemetery. AN122A
1 memorial
Renate Keeping
Artist. Born Renate Hannah Meyer in Berlin. Her family came as refugees to Britain in 1933. She married fellow artist Charles Keeping.
1 memorial
Johannes Kepler
Mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Â Best known for his laws of planetary motion.Â
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Jerome Kern
Composer. Born Jerome David Kern at Sutton Place, New York City. Studied music in New York and Heidelberg. He worked his theatrical apprenticeship in New York and London. His first complete score f...
1 memorial
Max Bruno Kerscht
A German WW1 internee at Alexandra Palace who died there and was buried in New Southgate Cemetery. AN364
1 memorial
Kindertransport
10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
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Heinrich Knein
A German WW1 internee at Alexandra Palace who died there and was buried in New Southgate Cemetery. F1368
1 memorial
Robert Koch
Discovered the bacilli for anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. A founder of bacteriology. Born Clausthal, Germany. Died Baden-Baden, Germany.
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Oskar Kokoschka
Painter. Born in Pöchlarn, Austria. He studied in Vienna and worked in Berlin for many years where he painted expressionist portraits and did illustrations for the periodical 'Der Sturm'. Branded a...
1 memorial
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