Posted on November 21, 2013
Performer Mona Golabek (left) chats with Ralph Samuel of Oakland and Ilse Eden of Berkeley. photo/dan pine
With anti-Semitism rampant and war looming, Ralph Samuel fled his hometown of Dresden, Germany, for safety in England. He was all alone. Then only 7, Samuel was one of nearly 10,000 Jewish children who escaped Germany and Austria in the famed Kindertransport.