Holocaust survivor, 92, makes aliyah to Israel nine decades after Kindertransport – interview

Charash was born Helen Hesse in Hamburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, great efforts were made to get Charash and her sister out of Germany. At the time, she was five and a half years old, and her sister was two and a half years old. They left Germany without their parents on the Kindertransport in December 1938.

The girls were sent to the Netherlands, where they were placed in a detention camp and cared for by nuns. Their parents were eventually able to reunite with them in early spring 1939. The family traveled to London and, from there, sailed to New York in June 1939.