Courtesy: National Museums Liverpool By James Dacey This
unremarkable piece of paper belongs to a chapter in one of the
most extraordinary lives of the 20th century. It is the recently
discovered landing card issued to Albert Einstein in 1933 when
he arrived in Britain after fleeing Nazi Germany. On Tuesday the
card went on public display for the first time at the Merseyside
Maritime Museum in Liverpool, having been stored away for nearly
80 years at Heathrow Airport. “We were keen on acquiring any
documents relating to immigration but were stunned to find
paperwork relating to such a prominent historical figure as
Albert Einstein,” Lucy Gardner, curator of the exhibition about
customs and immigration. The document brings proof that Einstein
arrived in Dover on 26 May 1933 after sailing from Ostende in
Belgium. The “professor” states that he was heading for Oxford,
a city he had visited previously during stays at Christ Church
College. Einstein lists his nationality as Swiss having
renounced his German citize