Posted on April 24, 2025
Rep. Grace Meng visited 100-year-old Shoah survivor Hanna Slome at Sloane’s home in Flushing, New York, bringing with her a proclamation declaring Slome’s birthday “Hanna Slome Day” in the Sixth Congressional District.
Slome, a Czechoslovakia native, was whisked from Nazi persecution to a new home in England aboard the Kindertransport in 1939. Nick Winton, the son of Kindertransport organizer Sir Nicholas Winton, visited Slome with Meng.
Slome immigrated to the United States at 19, settled in New York City and later married, becoming a mother to two, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother to 10 children.