Posted on September 22, 2024
JACKSON TWP — The 30 panels in the “For the Child: Stories of the Kindertransport” exhibit at Seneca Valley Intermediate High School demonstrate the determination of Jewish children to retain some connection to their happy home life before Hitler’s regime of hate destroyed their families.
The exhibit, which was open to the students and staff from Sept. 10 to 18 in the school’s LIGHT Center, included photos on large panels of the items children packed in their suitcases for the trip to Great Britain, where they would be away from Nazi persecution.
The humanitarian effort Kindertransport saved almost 10,000 mostly Jewish children between 1938 and 1940 as Hitler’s anti-Jewish rhetoric increased. The transports were planned by those in Germany’s Jewish communities, and child welfare organizations in Great Britain arranged for the children’s care, education and eventual emigration to Britain.