Melissa Hacker, eine New Yorker Filmemacherin hat sich der Geschichte ihrer Familie angenommen. Im NU-Gesprach erzahlt sie uber ihre Mutter Ruth Morley, eine beruhmte Filmdesignerin, die als Kind aus Wien fluchten konnte und uber ihren Grossvater Mordechai Birnholz, den Besitzer einer beruhmten Exlibris-Sammlung, die von den Nazis gestohlen wurde. -Scroll down page to ARTIKEL and clic on Zerbrochene Kindheit –
Alison Pick’s Holocaust novel, Far To Go, puts a new spin on moral compromise and, especially, the experience of young children living in Jewish households where the growing terror becomes unbearable. It’s 1939, and Czech secular Jews Pavel and Annaliese Bauer’s comfortable life is slowly slipping away. As Hitler makes inroads into the country, they have to make some decisions.
Ruth Barnett gave her testimony to 200 students at Bishop Gore School in Swansea, as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust. The aim of the visit is to ensure pupils learn the lessons of the Holocaust — which led to the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis. London-based Ruth first came to Britain back in 1939, along with her seven-year-old brother.
Wolf was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on December 18,1926. In 1939, at age 12, he was sent to England as part of the last Kindertransport. He spent the war years attending school at Eastbourne College, and then teaching younger students at a school which had been relocated to northern Wales. As a young man, he immigrated to the United States where in 1946 he finally reunited with his parents in New York City.
Later this month singer Max Raabe will bring his 12-piece Palast Orchester ensemble here from Germany, for the first time, for four performances of their Heute Nacht Oder Nie (Tonight or Never) show in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. Raabe and the band’s repertoire is based on songs that were popular in Germany during the 1920s and early ’30s, “up to 1933,” as Raabe is keen to point out. Hits from America, which also made it big in Europe at the time, also feature in the show.
Lithe and still a head-turner at 85, Phillips, a former model, questioned me about my history before detailing her escape in 1939 to England from Vienna, and her New York reunion with her parents. An artist since childhood, Phillips recalled the “sexual harassment” she endured as the only woman illustrator at the comic book publisher Fiction House.
Meditations: Eva Hesse, featuring Heather L. Tyler, is at Highways Performance Space this weekend.
Eva Hesse was an artist known for both her pioneering work with materials such as plastics, fiberglass and latex, as well as her short, tragic career and life. This weekend in Los Angeles, two opening art exhibitions and a new play focus on Hesse’s life and work. Born in Germany in 1936, Hesse and her sister escaped on one of the last kindertransport trains.
Share4 By Robyn Rosen, September 21, 2010 Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the British Schindler after he rescued 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia, has been honoured with the unveiling of a life-size statue of himself. Sir Nicholas, who is 101, attended the unveiling of the bronze statue, created by sculptor Lydia Karpinska, on the Reading-bound platform at Maidenhead railway station at the weekend.
An Interview with Austrian Consul General Ernst-Peter Brezovszky Editor’s Note: Daniel Retter’s father, Marcus Retter, z”l, escaped from Vienna to England in 1938 on the Kindertransport.He says that since his father should have been the one asking some of the following questions, the interview is dedicated to his memory.
Gretel Beer, who has died aged 89, was a Kindertransport refugee from Austria and became a highly successful writer of cook books; her Classic Austrian Cooking (1954) remains the standard work in English. It was the first in a series on cooking in her homeland, and introduced a British public still dogged by postwar austerity and rationing to the exotic delights of thick soups, Wiener schnitzel, veal goulash, as well as famous Austrian desserts such as dumplings, nut cakes and Sachertortes.
Looking Towards Mornington Crescent Station
Considered one of Britain’s greatest living artists, Frank Auerbach has been based in North London for his entire career, spanning over fifty years. Auerbach was born in Berlin in 1931, to Jewish parents. In 1939 they sent him to England to escape the Nazis as part of the Kindertransport programme, where he has lived ever since. His parents died in a concentration camp.
I’ve always thought of Devorah (Gertrude) Jerichower as a true yekke. Born in Hamburg, she was sent to England in 1938 with her elder brother on the second Kindertransport, her parents perished in Auschwitz. There are others like Devorah, indomitable, motivated, proud Jews and human beings. Their lives have lessons to teach about purpose, courage and endurance in an era when too many are confused, rudderless and weak. We can, if we choose, learn them.
Lily Renée Phillips, photo by Jo Ann Toy for Newsweek
You can see in her work flashes of Klimt, Schiele, Dix, and other painters she studied as a wealthy young girl in prewar Austria. You can also see the influence of what happened next: World War II.Phillips spent two years as a Jewish war refugee in England, wondering if her parents were still alive, and ultimately escaped to the U.S. with the kind of derring-do you might find in Señorita Rio, an immigrant turned spy who became Phillips’s most celebrated comic creation.
Papakura Museum is organizing the first-ever nationwide tour of the Anne Frank exhibition. For Papakura District Council’s community development manager Leora Hirsh the exhibition holds special significance. Ms Hirsh’s immediate family escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and were accepted into New Zealand as refugees while others in the family made it to England through the “kinder transport” system. Many of her extended family did not survive the holocaust.
Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., the founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide, a nonprofit organization committed to protecting innocent people around the world; preventing genocide by combating racism and prejudice; advocating for the prosecution of perpetrators; and remembering those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed by violence writes of her recent trip to the UK and her visit to kindertransport exhibits.
A FAMILY who founded the UK’s first Holocaust memorial centre are to receive a rare triple honour. Marina Smith and sons James and Stephen will receive honorary degrees from Nottingham Trent University. Much of the award-winning exhibition focuses on the Kindertransport. Also based at the centre is the Aegis Trust, a genocide prevention organisation the Smiths founded in 2000.
Former pupils of a temporary wartime Ort school in Leeds were reunited, 70 years after its relocation from Berlin. More than 100 boys aged 15-to-17 fled to Britain from Nazi Germany in 1939, along with seven teachers and their spouses. From the following year until 1942, it operated as the Ort Technical Engineering School. Eight old boys, who keep in regular contact, were at the anniversary celebration with family members and Ort officials at London’s Jewish Museum in Camden.
Local councillors and residents visited Leeds’ Brodetsky Jewish Primary to officially open three new building projects. A specially constructed nature teaching area known as the Outdoor School was dedicated to Sam Gitlic by his family, who had funded the £10,000 facility in his memory. Mr Gitlic came to Britain as a refugee on the Kindertransport, aged 13. He was taken under the wing of the Lawrence family of Leeds.
Otto was 17 years old when his father Karl and his mother Bertha put him on a train bound for Holland. It was August 18, 1939. He was the youngest in his family. His brothers and sisters were too old to be included in the Kindertransport.
The former Assistant Director of ITS Berkeley and the author of a widely used textbook on traffic engineering, died June 9,2010. Homburger was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1926. In 1939, at age 12, he was sent to England on a Kindertransport. He was a committed supporter of Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam, a village in Israel where Jewish and Arab families live together in a peace-building effort.