Posted on October 3, 2025
Fueled by a passion for learning and sharing information, a National History Day project on the Kindertransport has been transformed into an educational packet for fifth- and sixth-graders across the country.
Romy Fruman and Harley Moritz, both 14-year old Hewlett High School freshmen, created a documentary for their National History Day project at Woodmere Middle School last December. They interviewed Manfred Korman, 94, about his experience during the Kindertransport, a rescue effort in which nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children were transported to Great Britain from Nazi Germany from December 1938 to May 1940, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
The girls wanted to preserve Korman’s story, believing that it was important to do something that represented their Jewish heritage. They found the details of the Kindertransport to be particularly imperative to share, they said.
Romy and Harley created a “clothespin education project” as a “symbol of hope and remembrance,” with clothespins representing the children rescued by the Kindertransport.
They turned their History Day Project and the clothespin initiative into an educational packet for students.