The Hi-de-Hi! display is part of an exhibition showcasing the history of the Warners holiday camp at Dovercourt that hosted thousands of kindertransport children who fled the Nazis to Britain and was transformed into a military base during World War Two.
For nearly four decades, Hella Pick, the doyenne of British diplomatic correspondents, had a front-row seat at the events that shaped the postwar age. But in her newly published memoirs, “Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life,” the pioneering female reporter reveals her constant and continuing struggle with feelings of insecurity about her identity. Pick traces that sense of herself as an outsider back to March 1939 when she arrived in London on the Kindertransport.
A Kindertransport memorial is set to be erected in the Essex port town of Harwich to commemorate the child refugees who came to the town. The planned statue, which is in construction by artist Ian Wolter, will show five children descending from a ship’s gangplank. Also planned is a town trail, audio bench and new information boards which will be strategically placed around the town. However, it will only be realised if £140,000 is raised – with around £70,000 already raised so far.
The long wall at the back of the gallery is covered with blank cardboard tags. They’re the same size as tags pinned to more than 10,000 Jewish children who escaped Nazi Germany through the Kindertransport. The image is one piece in the “Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” exhibit that runs through Oct. 31 at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. A suitcase, favorite toys, a knitted scarf, books tell stories of the children’s lives.
A Kindertransport refugee who was educated in Shropshire and went on to become a ground-breaking global IT entrepreneur is set to be honoured. Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley Companion of Honour will return to Oswestry on August 26 to unveil a blue plaque commemorating her outstanding contribution to British life and formative years in Oswestry. Dame Stephanie arrived in the UK on one of the last Kindertransport trains out of Vienna. In 1962 she started her software business from home.
Benno Black is the last known person in Minnesota who participated in the kindertransport. In July 1939, he boarded a train with other Jewish children bound for England, carrying a leather suitcase with his school notebook, pressed flowers from his mother, family photos and a few other mementos. He was 13. Eighty-two years later, the contents of that suitcase and Black’s poignant journey are part of a new exhibit at the American Swedish Institute.
A wall of blank tags fills the side of the Osher Gallery at the American Swedish Institute, each one representing the tag worn by a child who was transported out of Nazi-occupied territory before World War II. It’s half of the American Swedish Institute’s two-part exhibition on the most successful organized effort to rescue Jewish children before the Holocaust: “Kindertransport”.
Faraway Home is a tragic yet beautiful story, the journey of two young Jewish children sent by their parents away from Nazi-occupied Austria during World War Two on the Kindertransport to London, where they finally end up at a Jewish refugee farm in Northern Ireland. Based on true events, it is a story that finds hope and even laughter in the midst of great pain.
Born in Berlin, Germany on June 3rd 1933 and died at the age of 88 in Boca Raton, FL. Anita immigrated to the US after escaping the Holocaust and a few years in England. Anita was raised by her grandparents in Vineland, NJ. Anita had been saved by the kindertransport and found her connection when she became a part of the organization. She served as President of the South Florida chapter of the Kindertransport Association for many years.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Lucy Lang travelled on the Kindertransport, with her sister, Erica Jesselson. She was featured in “Kindertransport–Rescuing Children on the Brink of War,” a 2018 exhibition, and spoke at the opening. She was also a participant in Names, Not Numbers, a Holocaust documentary film project in which high school students interview survivors about their experience. The Yeshiva University community joins in mourning the loss of an extraordinary, elegant and generous woman
Members of Livermore Shakespeare Festival (LSF) will reopen the doors for a staged reading of Diane Samuel’s “Kindertransport” at 7 p.m. July 22. “Kindertransport” follows the story of fictional Eva Schlessinger, who is transported away from her parents in Germany to live with a foster family in England, with events based on real life stories of Kindertransport children.
From the kindertransports to the arms of JFK, meet the pioneering writer, Hella Pick, that blazed a trail few could follow (subscription required)
Famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is trying to get a one-woman show about her life, “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” to Broadway. The play follows Westheimer’s life from her childhood as part of a Kindertransport in 1939, which brought German children to an orphanage in Switzerland, through her move to the States and meteoric rise to world-famous sex therapist.
Congratulations to Bea Green, Kindertransport Survivor,friend of the KTA, on her MBE!
he Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the public to an online program with Margot Lobree, who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to the UK in April 1939. The session will be moderated by Appalachian State professor Chris Patti, and will take place on Thurs., July 22, from 9:00 – 11:00 am EDT The program is free and open to the public. To register please go to https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcld-Gsrj0rE9TknwxP737Xu-JTq8TfrT_Y
Presented by Linda Mason Waldroup, whose mother was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K. in 1939.Doris Mason, who was born Doris Franzelore Goldschmidt in Germany in 1930, was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K.
The Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton (UK) is running a free course on the Kindertransport. It is designed for educators but may be of interest to others. The course will run over 3 weeks (5-23 July) with a mixture of asynchronous and synchronous activities, participants will also have access to an online exhibition curated for the course.
A FUNDRAISING effort towards the installation of a poignant stature to help mark Harwich’s role in the Kindertransport rescue has hit a milestone amount of money. A bronze statue is being created to commemorate the child refugees who escaped Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror in parts of Europe ahead of the Second World War.
Lore Segal, Kindertransport Survivor and longtime KTA member who was a speaker at the very first KTA conference at the Nevele Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York State in November 1990, is to be inducted into the NY State Writers Hall of Fame on June 8! tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wY35od
Dr. Ruth, who was born in Germany, was part of a Kindertransport in 1939. She considers herself an “orphan of the Holocaust,” not a “survivor,” explaining, “I was not in a camp, but my family did not survive.” Dr. Ruth says she considers the play — and also a Hulu documentary called “Ask Dr. Ruth” — as “a gravestone to my parents who don’t have graves.”