The Sabine Price Comic Collection of Twinkle/Nurse Nancy

• Reference:GB 254 MS 468
• Dates of Creation:1968 - 2023
• Name of Creator:
  Sabine Price
• Physical Description:
  8 boxes of comics

• Scope and Content

  Collection of Twinkle comics, Twinkle Summer Specials, Little Star and Benny my Baby Brother booklet. Also includes biography of creator and description of life of a woman comic artist drawing for a girl's comic.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Sabine Price, nee Schweitzer, was born in 1926 in Berlin. Although her maternal grandfather had been chief mayor of Berlin, in 1939 her father was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp because his family had been Jewish before converting to Christianity. Luckily he managed to get out and emigrated to England with two of her siblings. But her mother, two other siblings and Sabine were unable to leave before the war started and so the family was separated for seven years. Living as a half-Jewish child under Hilter, she was forced to leave school early, and during the fighting at the end of the war their house was fire-hosed by the Russians and they only just escaped in time. At 18, having lost her home, she witnessed the horrors of the end of the war, but amazingly her family all survived and were later reunited in England. Sabine has written a short piece about what it felt like to be a half-Jewish child at this time; you can read it here: https://www.rebeccapriceart.com/sabine-s-writing
  After art school in England, she became a children's illustrator. She was a great champion of childhood; she had experienced her own childhood incredibly intensely, and I believe that her reassuring, comforting illustrations for children were a reaction to her own family life, fractured as it was by the rise of Hitler and the war. She died aged 93, in 2019.

• Access Information

  Open

• Acquisition Information

  Rebecca Price, daughter of creator

• Note

  Sabine Price, nee Schweitzer, was born in 1926 in Berlin. Although her maternal grandfather had been chief mayor of Berlin, in 1939 her father was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp because his family had been Jewish before converting to Christianity. Luckily he managed to get out and emigrated to England with two of her siblings. But her mother, two other siblings and Sabine were unable to leave before the war started and so the family was separated for seven years. Living as a half-Jewish child under Hilter, she was forced to leave school early, and during the fighting at the end of the war their house was fire-hosed by the Russians and they only just escaped in time. At 18, having lost her home, she witnessed the horrors of the end of the war, but amazingly her family all survived and were later reunited in England. Sabine has written a short piece about what it felt like to be a half-Jewish child at this time; you can read it here: https://www.rebeccapriceart.com/sabine-s-writing
  After art school in England, she became a children's illustrator. She was a great champion of childhood; she had experienced her own childhood incredibly intensely, and I believe that her reassuring, comforting illustrations for children were a reaction to her own family life, fractured as it was by the rise of Hitler and the war. She died aged 93, in 2019.

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  Fair

• Archivist's Note

  28/03/2023

  C Brown

• Conditions Governing Use

  Copyright D C Thomson

• Appraisal Information

  All kept

• Custodial History

  Kept by Rebecca Price after her mother's death and given to the University

• Accruals

  None expected

• Additional Information

  Published

  GB 254

• Subjects

  Comics

  Women

• Geographical Names

  Dundee