The forgotten story of how the people of Sandwich played a key role in saving thousands of men from certain death at the hands of the Nazis is to be featured in a BBC TV show on Monday evening Jan. 23. In recounting the stories of love and loss, the programme tracks down men and women of the time to discover how the locals took the people of another country and culture to their hearts. The show managed to track down many of the Kitchener Camp veterans who still survive today.
A KNIGHTED jewish refugee, a young Auschwitz visitor and a High Commissioner are among guest speakers at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service in Hendon this Sunday. The day’s theme is Speak Up, Speak Out, admission is free and all members of the public are invited to attend.
Sacred Heart University is the recipient of a collection of books on the holocaust from Dr. Geoffrey and Renée Hartman. The couple amassed a collection of scholarly works with their work on the Holocaust Survivors Film Project. Dr. Hartman was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929 and was placed on Kindertransport to England in 1939. Renée Hartman was deported as a 10 year old from Slovakia in 1944 to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp where she and her younger sister were liberated in 1945.
Few lives so encapsulated the mammoth historical and political changes during 20th Century Europe as that of Claire Rauter, who has died aged 87. As a child she fled Nazi persecution, in her adolescence she swapped ideas with Londons intelligentsia, and in adulthood she made it her life’s work to bring Steiner’s humanistic educational approach to the masses. Born in Vienna in 1924 to Jewish parents, Mrs Rauter and her younger brother Freddy boarded a train out of Austria 15 years later.
Robbin’s young-adult graphic novel chronicles Renee’s childhood before she became a comic artist.
Robbins’ new book is “Lily Renee: Escape Artist.” The true story of Lily Renee, a girl who escaped to Britain via kindertransport after Nazi Germany annexed Austria, worked at a hospital during the blitz and was reunited with her parents in the US. In her teens and twenties, Renee worked as a comic book artist. Many of the comics she illustrated involved fighting the Nazis she had escaped and on paper she was able to tell the stories of strong women fighting the Nazi threat in their own way.