Posted on October 28, 2017
Angelika Rieber, a historian and life-long educator from Frankfurt, Germany, presented research she has done on the program and the stories she’s heard from those saved by it. Rieber began her presentation by explaining the kindertransport, a system by which Jewish children in Germany, specifically Frankfurt for her research, would escape the tightening grasp of Nazi rule before the onset of World War II by applying for transport to England, France or the U.S.