BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:385@kindertransport.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250820T130000 DTSTAMP:20250805T204110Z URL:https://kindertransport.org/events/ruth-morley-and-lore-segal-kindertr ansport-survivor-artists-on-film-film-screening-and-conversation-with-dire ctor-melissa-hacker/ SUMMARY:Ruth Morley and Lore Segal\, Kindertransport Survivor Artists on Fi lm Film Screening and Conversation with Director Melissa Hacker DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin film director Melissa Hacker in conversation with Rach el Stern about My Knees Were Jumping\; Remembering the Kindertransports. In the talk\, Melissa will show a new short film on the Kindertransports\,  256\,000 miles from home\, which travels with four Kindertransport survi vors as they retrace the journey they took 80 years earlier\, as unaccompa nied child refugees.\n\n\nThe filmmaker Melissa Hacker’s mother\, the Ac ademy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley\, neé Birnholz\, (Taxi  Driver\, Annie Hall\, The Hustler\, The Miracle Worker\, Tootsie\, and many more classic American movies) fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January 1939. She is a strong presence in the film talking about her exp eriences alongside other former child refugees\, many of them women. Ruth and the writer Lore Segal\, also a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna\, remember the antisemitism of schoolmates and neighbors\, the violence and their fears on November 9\, 1938\, the difficult decision their parents ha d to make to send them off into the unknown\, and their lives in the Unite d Kingdom. We learn about their postwar lives in North America\, and hear from their children\, the second generation. Hacker creates space for all to talk and reflect\, making this film a moving and invaluable record of t estimony.\n\nMelissa Hacker is the daughter of a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna\, Austria\, and the Executive Director of the Kindertranspor t Association. Melissa is a filmmaker who made her directing debut with th e documentary My Knees Were Jumping\; Remembering the Kindertransports\, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. H onors received For Ex Libris\, A Life in Bookplates\, Melissa’s curren t work in progress\, include a Fulbright Artist-in-Residence award in Vien na\, and residencies at Yaddo\, VCCA\, Playa\, Willapa Bay AIR\, Saltonsta ll\, Millay\, and the LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture.\n\nMelissa has s poken internationally on the Kindertransports\, consulted on exhibits incl uding Rescuing Children on the Brink of War created at the Center for Je wish History in New York and opening at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rig hts Museum in September 2025\, and Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna\, at the Vienna Jewish Museum. Melissa is the editor of two Academ y Award nominated documentary films\, a wandering professor\, most recentl y in Yangon\, Myanmar\, and serves on the Governing Board of the World Fed eration of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants.\n\nThis event is pa rt of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repr ession” organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostraciz ed and Banned Art in New York.\nAugust 13-21: view the film My Knees Wer e Jumping\; Remembering the Kindertransports on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.\nAugust 20 at 12:00pm Eastern Time\ , tune into the program with Director Melissa Hacker and Rachel Stern. A l ink will be provided to all who register.\n\nTo register\, click here ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://kindertransport.org/wp-content/uploads/2 025/08/2025FritzAscherKnees.jpg CATEGORIES:Public event,Speaker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR