November 22, 2020
KInder gather for virtual tea party
While we can’t hold our annual NYC KTA gathering this year, care packages with tea and sweet treats have been delivered to NYC local Kindertransport Survivor KTA members, and we will gather together online for a virtual Cafe Europa. Supported by the Claims Conference.
November 18, 2020
KTA Austrian Citizenship session
The KTA hosts an information session on questions posed by descendants of Austrian Holocaust Survivors on the process of applying for Austrian Citizenship with the new 58c para. 1a of the Austrian Citizenship Act together with the Austrian Consulate General in New York.
July 21, 2020
Jonathan Lichtenstein, award-winning playwright and Professor of Drama at the University of Essex, in conversation with novelist Gaby Koppel about his forthcoming book The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport. The book will be published by Scribner on 6 August. To register: https://bit.ly/2WdeSiB
July 14, 2020
Join the Leo Baeck Institute and author and Kindertransportee Lore Segal in reading and discussing one of her most important works, Her First American. The first chapter of Her First American is based on Lore Segal’s short story The First American, published in The New Yorker in 1983. To hear to a discussion on the story: https://bit.ly/2C8qpsl
July 8, 2020
Join the Association of Jewish Refugees to hear Thomas Harding talk with David Herman, on topics ranging from the reclamation of German citizenship to writing. Thomas Harding is a bestselling author and a 2G, whose books have been translated into 16 languages. Author of HANNS AND RUDOLF which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction & THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE. David Herman is contributing editor for the AJR Journal and has written on Holocaust literature for the Guardian & the Independent.
June 24, 2020
How do we remember the Kindertransport, and why? How does British memory of this event compare with memory in other English-speaking host nations who took in German Jewish refugees? In this online event Amy Williams and Bill Niven will explore how the Kindertransport has been remembered in Britain, and compare British memory of this event with memory in the other English-speaking host nations which took in the refugee children (Kinder), namely America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
June 17, 2020
Journalist and author Simon Parkin will talk about the research he has been conducting for his forthcoming book, The Island of Extraordinary Captives. The book tells, for the first time, the story of Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man. This talk will focus on émigré architect Bruno Ahrends and the establishment of the Camp University – probably the finest in the world in 1940! Co-hosted by Insider/Outsider Festival and the AJR
June 16, 2020
THhe Association for Jewish Refugees hosts a discussion with Ariana Neumann on her book “When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains” with its author Ariana Neumann. In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. https://www.ariananeumann.com/
June 14, 2020
Join The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and 100 other museums and cultural institutions around the world. The free 90-minute program will commemorate the recent anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and project a message of hope amidst the crises we face. Featuring Kindertransportee Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Whoopie Goldberg, Mayim Bialik, Jackie Hoffman, world-renowned singers and musicians Renee Fleming, Lea Salonga, and more.
June 14, 2020
The Sousa Mendes Foundation hosts an online film discusssion. Psychologist Dr. Eva Fogelman in dialogue with Columbia University Film Professor Dr. Annette Insdorf about this moving documentary on Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of WWII as part of the Kindertransport. Watch the film online via amazon, and then participate in the discussion. To register: https://bit.ly/2ATs3gQ