Join us at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York to commemorate the arrival of the first Kindertransport in England on December 2, 1938 asthe Museum and the Kindertransport Association present a screening of the short films 256,000 Miles from Home and Dreyfus Drei. 256,000 Miles from Home follows four Kindertransport survivors as they retrace the route they took from their homelands to England 80 years before and Dreyfus Drei tells the story of Australian Jewish artist Ella Dreyfus and her quest to unearth her family’s lost Holocaust history.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dreyfus; Melissa Hacker, Executive Director of the KTA and director of 256,000 Miles from Home; Ilse Melamid, Kindertransport survivor; and Eva Yachnes, Kindertransport survivor. The program will be moderated by Dr. Eva Fogelman, renowned psychologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.
Melissa Hacker, daughter of a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna, is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. Hacker is a filmmaker who made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination and seen in film festivals, cinemas, museums, on television, and in universities worldwide. Honors received for Ex Libris, A Life in Bookplates, Hacker’s current work in progress, include a Fulbright Artist-in-Residence award in Vienna and a LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture Fellowship. Melissa continues to preserve and share the stories of this pivotal moment in history, ensuring that the lessons of the Kindertransport endure for future generations.
Ella Dreyfus has a thirty year career as a contemporary visual artists and is well-known for her exhibitions which engage with representations of the body. Dreyfus is a Senior Lecturer in Photography and Head of Public Programs at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia. She has over twenty-five years’ experience in arts education as a lecturer at Australian tertiary art institutions and presenter at international conferences.
Dr. Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, author and filmmaker. She is a pioneer in therapeutic interventions for generations of the Holocaust and related historical traumas, and is a frequent consultant and speaker nationally and internationally. She is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust (PBS). Dr. Fogelman is a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Psychohistory Forum, among other awards.
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