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URL:https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransports-the-kta-the-80
 th-year-commemorative-journey-and-new-research/
SUMMARY:The Kindertransports: The KTA\, the 80th Year Commemorative Journey
 \, and New Research
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Melissa Hacker\, Amy Williams\, and Wendy Henry\nFrom
  December 1st\, 1938\, through September 1st\, 1939\, nearly 10\,000 mostl
 y Jewish children traveled from Nazi Germany\, Austria\, Czechoslovakia\, 
 Poland and Danzig to the United Kingdom without their parents. This rescue
  mission became known as the Kindertransport. In 1990\, more than 50 years
  later\, a group of Kindertransport survivors in New York City came togeth
 er to found the Kindertransport Association. This unique organization was 
 founded not solely as a Survivor group\, but as an intergenerational group
  with the missions of connecting these child Holocaust survivors and desce
 ndants\, educating the next generations on the Kindertransports as an impo
 rtant part of Holocaust history\, and supporting and advocating for childr
 en at risk today\, especially refugees and those without parents.\n\nIn 20
 19 KTA president Melissa Hacker\, whose mother fled Vienna on a Kindertran
 sport in January 1939\, created and organized an 80th year commemorative j
 ourney. Over two weeks in the summer of 2019 four Kindertransport Survivo
 rs\, now in their late 80's and early 90's returned to the countries they 
 fled\, accompanied by fourteen members of the second generation. Traveling
  by train and ferry from Vienna to Berlin\, Amsterdam to Hook of Holland\,
  Harwich to London\, the travelers traced the Kindertransport journey\, vi
 siting memorials\, learning from scholars\, and conducting family research
  along the way. The trip received international press attention and led to
  new connections\, insights\, and memories for the participants.\n\nMeliss
 a will discuss the trip and show excerpts from 256\,000 Miles From Home\,
  a short film she has just finished inspired by this trip. Wendy Henry\, w
 ho traveled together with her "Kindertransport cousin" Monique\, whose mot
 her lived with Wendy's mother in the Schlesinger family hostel in London\,
  found family photographs she had never seen before in archives in Berlin\
 , and met in London with a member of the Schlesinger family who created th
 e hostel. Wendy will speak on her experiences on the trip. Dr. Amy William
 s\, who spoke with the Kindertransport Journey travelers at the Wiener Hol
 ocaust Library in London and is writing a book on the Kindertransports for
  Yale University Press\, will present on her new Kindertransport research.
 \n\nIn person at the  Center for Jewish History\, 15 W. 16th St. New York
  NY 10011\n\nCo-sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute\, The Jewish Genealog
 ical Society NY\, and the KTA\n\nTo reserve in person tickets\, $5 for the
  public\, free for KTA members\, click here\n\n\nTo reserve tickets to wat
 ch live on zoom\, click here\n\n[caption id="attachment_4029" align="align
 center" width="682"] Photos by Michael Jänecke and Melissa Hacker[/captio
 n]
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