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- [Meet the Kindertransport refugee who fled the Nazis and turbo-charged mankind’s journey into outer space](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/meet-the-kindertransport-refugee-who-fled-the-nazis-and-turbo-charged-mankinds-journey-into-outer-space/) - After Kindertransport refugee Ben Abeles arrived in the UK from Prague aged 14, his father wrote to him begging him to get a good education so he would “count for somebody”. More letters followed but within a year and a half, they dried up: both his father and mother were murdered in a Nazi death
- [Polish Kindertransport memorial restored to its Gdansk city centre site](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/polish-kindertransport-memorial-restored-to-its-gdansk-city-centre-site/) - The Kindertransport monument in the Polish city of Gdansk, which had been in storage since 2019, has been restored to its former position in front of the central station. Its return was marked by a ceremony this week attended by the mayor, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, and Israel’s ambassador to Poland, Jacov Livne. The monument, first unveiled
- [Arundel Players bringing Kindertransport to the stage](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/arundel-players-bringing-kindertransport-to-the-stage/) - Arundel Players are offering Kindertransport by Diane Samuels, directed by Gill Lambourn. Director Gill explains: “Although English, Diane Samuels is of Jewish descent and Kindertransport is her seminal play inspired by the British offer in 1938 to provide German Jewish children the opportunity of a safe life in Britain albeit without their parents. The difficult
- [Lancashire school commissions statue to honour Kindertransport students](https://kindertransport.org/2026/04/lancashire-school-commissions-statue-to-honour-kindertransport-students/) - Lancashire school that gave refuge to three Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution is raising £30k for a commemorative sculpture and garden space in their honour. In 1939, Church of England institution Rossall School welcomed three German-Austrian Kindertransport children, Gerd Haag, Robert Augenfeld and Karl Schneider. Each had been brought over by the Quakers and at
- [Holocaust survivor, 92, makes aliyah to Israel nine decades after Kindertransport - interview](https://kindertransport.org/2026/04/holocaust-survivor-92-makes-aliyah-to-israel-nine-decades-after-kindertransport-interview/) - Nearly nine decades after fleeing Nazi Germany as a child on the Kindertransport, Holocaust survivor Helen Charash, 92, recently made aliyah to Jerusalem, joining a small but steady number of survivors relocating to Israel late in life. Charash was born Helen Hesse in Hamburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, great efforts were made to get Charash and
- [A teenage girl broke the rules on a Holocaust rescue train — but it ended up saving the lives of twin infants without a mother](https://kindertransport.org/2026/03/a-teenage-girl-broke-the-rules-on-a-holocaust-rescue-train-but-it-ended-up-saving-the-lives-of-twin-infants-without-a-mother/) - A teenage girl broke the rules on a Holocaust rescue train — but it ended up saving the lives of twin infants without a mother The girl was travelling on a 'kindertransport' that rescued Jewish children from Nazi riots. A 14-year-old girl showed extraordinary courage during the Holocaust when she chose to care for two
- [What was the Kindertransport? Part Two: Deportation](https://kindertransport.org/2026/02/what-was-the-kindertransport-part-two-deportation/) - In the first part of this blog, we focused on the use of the term Kindertransport to mean rescue more broadly from 1934-1942. When the British Kindertransport came to a halt in September 1939 there was a final transport from the Netherlands to British shores in May 1940. I have recently found a list of
- [What was the Kindertransport? Part One: Rescue](https://kindertransport.org/2026/02/what-was-the-kindertransport-part-one-rescue/) - When we ask ourselves today “what is the Kindertransport” we often impose our limited present day understanding onto this historical term and event. The Kindertransport has long been regarded as the rescue of mainly Jewish children from Nazism to Britain after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War. More recently there has
- [London marks 75th anniversary of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/london-marks-75th-anniversary-of-kindertransport/) - LONDON — “It was the festival of Hanukkah. The transports left in the evening… the authorities didn’t want the population to know what was going on. So, after we lit the candles my father blessed us and then we made our way to the station,” says Ruth Jacobs, who, together with her brother Harry Heber
- [Cologne, Germany Survivors Of WWII Kindertransport Reunite At Exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/cologne-germany-survivors-of-wwii-kindertransport-reunite-at-exhibit/) - Cologne, Germany - Survivors of “Kindertransport,” reunited this week at a commemorative exhibit. The exhibit is open 16 October - 24 November, 2013. 90 year-old Henrietta Franks was 15 when she left Cologne, and “My sister was 12, crying for a whole year.” Franks' parents fled to southern France, but her father was picked up
- [Second generation holocaust survivor speaks at local high school](https://kindertransport.org/2026/02/second-generation-holocaust-survivor-speaks-at-local-high-school/) - Rancho Mirage High School welcomed a special guest speaker on Thursday, February 12, as Michele Gold, a second-generation Holocaust survivor, shared her family’s powerful story with students. During her presentation, Gold recounted her mother’s journey beginning with her childhood in Leipzig, Germany, her escape to safety through the Kindertransport program, and her life after World
- [Holocaust Memorial Artist Participates in Unveiling of “Generations”](https://kindertransport.org/2026/01/holocaust-memorial-artist-participates-in-unveiling-of-generations/) - Marit Meisler was inspired to create artwork honoring the resilience and spirit of the Jewish people who faced the Holocaust by her father, Frank Meisler, who survived the Holocaust by escaping through the Kindertransport. Frank went on to create public sculptures installed in cities around the world, many of which depicted the Kindertransport. Marit, who
- [Marking Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2026/01/marking-holocaust-memorial-day/) - Lambeth Council hosted a Holocaust Memorial Day event on Sunday, January 25 with the theme of ‘Bridging Generations’ to serve as a reminder that the responsibility of remembrance doesn’t end with the survivors – but lives on through us all. The event at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton featured the lighting of a memorial candle
- [30th January, the Nazis, and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2026/01/30th-january-the-nazis-and-the-kindertransport/) - My grandfather, passed away on 27th January which is now the date of International Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). I was born on 30th January, the day when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and the day when Hitler gave his Reichstag speech in 1939. Every year, these two days have been filled with sorrow
- [BBC apologizes after Kindertransport episode omits any mention of Jews](https://kindertransport.org/2026/01/bbc-apologizes-after-kindertransport-episode-omits-any-mention-of-jews/) - The BBC has issued an apology after facing criticism for a December 26 episode of its popular program The Repair Shop, which discussed the Kindertransport without mentioning Jews, despite the operation’s central role in rescuing Jewish children from Nazi persecution during the Holocaust, i24NEWS reported. The episode centered on the restoration of a 19th‑century cello belonging to theater producer
- [BBC fails to mention Jews in one hour 'Repair Shop' episode about a cello broken by Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2026/01/bbc-fails-to-mention-jews-in-one-hour-repair-shop-episode-about-a-cello-broken-by-nazis/) - The BBC has been forced to apologize for the December 26 airing of an episode in its series The Repair Shop, which, while discussing the Kindertransport for 15 minutes, fails to mention the Jews. BBC fails to mention Jews in one hour The Repair Shop episode about a cello broken by Nazis The Repair Shop
- [‘Seeing what it means to the survivors is beyond anything I could ever write in a history book’](https://kindertransport.org/2025/12/seeing-what-it-means-to-the-survivors-is-beyond-anything-i-could-ever-write-in-a-history-book/) - Around a year ago, a determined researcher made the remarkable discovery of Kindertransport records thought to be lost to history. Historian Dr Amy Williams, who was doing a postdoctoral research fellowship at Yad Vashem, found the documents while trawling through the museum’s extensive archives. They included the names of almost all of the approximately 10,000
- [https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-museum-uses-paddington-bears-story-to-teach-kids-about-the-holocaust/](https://kindertransport.org/2025/12/https-cw33-com-news-local-dallas-museum-uses-paddington-bears-story-to-teach-kids-about-the-holocaust/) - The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum will host a holiday program for families and children on Dec. 22 and 29 at 1 p.m. The event will feature a tour of the Kindertransport exhibition followed by a reading of “A Bear Called Paddington.” This program is designed for children in fourth grade and above, along
- [Poignant event marks Kindertransport arrival in Lowestoft](https://kindertransport.org/2025/12/poignant-event-marks-kindertransport-arrival-in-lowestoft/) - A seaside town's role in welcoming hundreds of refugees has been recalled during a moving event. Close to where more than 500 mostly Jewish children had arrived in Lowestoft 86 years ago, a poignant exhibition has launched to remember those rescued from Nazi oppression. The Vienna Kindertransport was remembered on Friday, December 12, 2025 as
- [World Jewish Relief’s archives are a historical treasure trove](https://kindertransport.org/2025/12/world-jewish-reliefs-archives-are-a-historical-treasure-trove/) - Thousands of families of those who came over on the kindertransport are unaware that a wealth of information about their loved ones even exists World Jewish Relief works tirelessly to ensure that these stories survive. For decades, their archives, files containing the names of over 315,000 individuals and records of 65,000 refugees they supported, in
- [The Kindertransport – A Story of Hope](https://kindertransport.org/2025/12/the-kindertransport-a-story-of-hope/) - My mother, Marietta Sobel Drucker (z”l), was 9 ½ when her parents placed her on the Kindertransport to save her life after the Nazis invaded Vienna in 1938. She was taken from Austria to Great Britain on January 11, 1939. On that date, a lanyard was placed around her neck, which would help identify her
- [Holocaust survivor who fled from Nazi tyranny to Britain on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2025/11/holocaust-survivor-who-fled-from-nazi-tyranny-to-britain-on-the-kindertransport/) - Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld has been hailed for her 'strength and courage', following her death aged 95. The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) paid tribute to Ms Schaufeld, calling her an 'extraordinary ambassador' who 'inspired countless people'. Ms Schaufeld, who was born in Prague in 1930, was told when she was nine years old that
- [Holocaust survivors remember horrors as they mark 87th Kristallnacht anniversary amid rising antisemitism](https://kindertransport.org/2025/11/holocaust-survivors-remember-horrors-as-they-mark-87th-kristallnacht-anniversary-amid-rising-antisemitism/) - As the world marks the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, survivors of the Nazi pogrom that devastated Jewish life in Germany and Austria are warning of a dangerous resurgence of antisemitism. Among them is Walter Bingham, who was 14 years old when Nazi mobs looted Jewish businesses and torched synagogues during the Night of Broken Glass,
- [From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2025/11/from-kristallnacht-to-kindertransport/) - Close to 800 people gathered in Sydney for the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ annual Kristallnacht commemoration, an evening that powerfully linked a notorious moment of the Nazi pogrom with the subsequent act of rescue. The event, themed “From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport”, was a moving reflection on memory, compassion, and resilience. Dane Stern, chair of
- [Phoenix Holocaust survivor debuts documentary in November](https://kindertransport.org/2025/11/phoenix-holocaust-survivor-debuts-documentary-in-november/) - When the lights dim at the Herberger Theater Center on Tuesday, Nov. 18, and the first frames of “i was 8814” flicker to life, an audience in Phoenix will witness not just the retelling of a harrowing childhood journey, but the culmination of a lifetime devoted to memory, reconciliation and education. The new documentary, produced
- [Emile Sherman to headline Kristallnacht commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/2025/10/emile-sherman-to-headline-kristallnacht-commemoration/) - Academy Award-winning producer Emile Sherman will be the keynote speaker at this year’s communal Kristallnacht commemoration, which takes place next month. Sherman, who won the Best Picture Oscar for The King’s Speech and was nominated for Lion, is the producer of the film One Life, a biographical drama based on the true story of British
- [Lab’s Historic Stop-Motion Animation Ready To Reach Last Stop: the Big Screen](https://kindertransport.org/2025/10/labs-historic-stop-motion-animation-ready-to-reach-last-stop-the-big-screen/) - How do you capture the stories of refugee children who fled Nazi persecution without their parents? For students and faculty at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas, the answer was to create the University’s first stop-motion puppet animation, “Kinder Doll: A Kindertransport Story.”
- [North Texas woman helps bring history to life at Dallas Holocaust Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2025/10/north-texas-woman-helps-bring-history-to-life-at-dallas-holocaust-museum/) - A powerful exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is sharing the story of one of history’s largest child rescue efforts—and one North Texas woman’s personal connection to it. The exhibit, Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, tells the story of how 10,000 Jewish children escaped Nazi Germany just before the
- [Winston-Salem woman who survived Holocaust turns 100: ‘Happy to be here’](https://kindertransport.org/2025/10/winston-salem-woman-who-survived-holocaust-turns-100-happy-to-be-here/) - Margot Lobree has earned many titles over her lifetime: wife, mother, world traveler, and, most recently, centenarian. “It sounds so exotic,” Lobree said. “It’s a blessing to have reached this plateau, and I’m happy to be here.” Lobree turned 100 on Sept. 25 surrounded by family and loved ones. What makes her story even more
- [Walter Kohn: from kindertransport and internment to DFT and the Nobel prize](https://kindertransport.org/2025/10/walter-kohn-from-kindertransport-and-internment-to-dft-and-the-nobel-prize/) - Join us on 25 November as we explore the legacy of Walter Kohn, the 1998 joint winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry Event details and registration 25 November 2025, 15.00 – 16.00 GMT Register now Join us for a compelling exploration of the life and discoveries of Walter Kohn, the Nobel prize-winning chemist and
- [Hewlett students create Kindertransport educational packet for schools](https://kindertransport.org/2025/10/hewlett-students-create-kindertransport-educational-packet-for-schools/) - Fueled by a passion for learning and sharing information, a National History Day project on the Kindertransport has been transformed into an educational packet for fifth- and sixth-graders across the country. Romy Fruman and Harley Moritz, both 14-year old Hewlett High School freshmen, created a documentary for their National History Day project at Woodmere Middle
- [Wartime heroes honoured by Swanage Railway plaque](https://kindertransport.org/2025/09/wartime-heroes-honoured-by-swanage-railway-plaque/) - A commemorative plaque has been unveiled on the platform of Swanage station in Dorset to mark its history in the rescue of children from wartime Germany. Some 10,000 children, mostly Jewish, were smuggled out of Germany, Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the months before World War Two, to save them from almost certain death in
- [Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/2025/09/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-3/) - Journey through the astonishing rescue effort that, in nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom. Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War showcases the astonishing rescue effort that, in nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, stories,
- [Bremen launches reading series with 'Kindertransport'](https://kindertransport.org/2025/09/bremen-launches-reading-series-with-kindertransport/) - The Breman Museum has launched free, three-part play “readings” over the course of the next five months. A seasoned theatrical team took the stage on July 31 to showcase “Kindertransport,” harkening back to 1939 in Nazi Germany, where a Jewish woman, Helga, is preparing her 9-year-old daughter, Eva, for travel on a Kindertransport, taking her to
- [100 year old Kindertransport refugee Kurt Marx celebrates third Bar mitzvah](https://kindertransport.org/2025/09/100-year-old-kindertransport-refugee-kurt-marx-celebrates-third-bar-mitzvah/) - A centenarian who came to this country as a kindertransport refugee has just celebrated a third barmitzvah, with the chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees describing the occasion as “a powerful reminder of endurance in the face of history’s darkest trials.” Kurt Marx, who was born in Germany in 1924, celebrated the occasion at Edgware
- [Harrowing Rescue of Children from the Holocaust Highlighted in New Special Exhibition at Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2025/09/harrowing-rescue-of-children-from-the-holocaust-highlighted-in-new-special-exhibition-at-dallas-holocaust-and-human-rights-museum/) - The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum announces a new special exhibition, Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, open to the public from September 18th, 2025 to February 15th, 2026. The exhibition showcases the astonishing rescue mission that brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom in nine
- [Exhibition Opening - Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/2025/09/exhibition-opening-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war/) - Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Melissa Hacker, executive director of the Kindertransport Association, joins us for the opening of our special exhibition ‘Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War’ to honor the extraordinary efforts of those who saved thousands of Jewish children and reflect on the enduring impact of their actions. On view
- [Plaque unveiled for Kindertransport hero](https://kindertransport.org/2025/08/plaque-unveiled-for-kindertransport-hero/) - The son of a man who saved hundreds of Jewish children in the run-up to the Second World War has said his father's work demonstrates the impact individuals can have. A plaque was unveiled at Maidenhead railway station on Friday commemorating Sir Nicholas Winton who organised the rescue of 669 children before they could be
- [UK historian defies experts, discovers unknown Kindertransport records deep in Yad Vashem](https://kindertransport.org/2025/08/uk-historian-defies-experts-discovers-unknown-kindertransport-records-deep-in-yad-vashem/) - Holocaust experts told historian Amy Williams there was no such thing as a list of the Jewish children rescued in the iconic Kindertransport rescue operation, which saw some 10,000 relocated from continental Europe to Britain and other countries between 1938 and 1940. Contrary to the assumption of experts, however, Williams has meticulously pinned down documents
- [Free exhibitions for Railway 200, now open at London Liverpool Street](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/free-exhibitions-for-railway-200-now-open-at-london-liverpool-street/) - Lady Linda Reich, whose late husband Sir Erich Reich is depicted as a little boy in Liverpool Street’s Kindertransport memorial, said: “The history exhibition is fascinating, and it includes a section on the Kindertransport mission, which rescued Erich from Nazi Europe aged four and brought him to this country. Liverpool Street station was the last stop
- [Kindertransport academic shares new research with Manchester survivors](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/kindertransport-academic-shares-new-research-with-manchester-survivors/) - More than 100 Kindertransport refugees and their families gathered at Manchester Jewish Museum on Monday 7th July to hear from the Association of Jewish Refugees’ (AJR) Kindertransport scholar-in-residence, Dr Amy Williams. The audience included four generations of those linked directly to the Kindertransport; the refugees themselves as well as their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
- [Meet the Holocaust Survivor: Hedi Argent MBE](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/meet-the-holocaust-survivor-hedi-argent-mbe/) - Meet the Holocaust Survivor: Hedi Argent MBE Thursday 21st August 13:00 - 14:30 at the National Holocaust Museum in Newark. Hedi came to Britain as a refugee from Austria, escaping Nazi persecution. Hedi’s talk explores many themes such as: friendship, becoming a refugee as a child, and how we can support modern day refugees in the
- [An afternoon with John Fieldsend BEM, Kindertransportee](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/an-afternoon-with-john-fieldsend-bem-kindertransportee/) - Join us at the UK National Holocaust Museum on Tuesday 12th August for the special opportunity to hear Kindertransportee John Fieldsend's incredible testimony. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and raised in Germany, John experienced growing antisemitism under the Nazi regime before being sent to Britain on the Kindertransport. His parents, who remained behind, were later murdered
- [The Nicholas Winton Train that saved two brothers' lives](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/the-nicholas-winton-train-that-saved-two-brothers-lives/) - If you read one story today, let it be this one. Hanus Jan Grosz and his brother Karel were just boys when they were hurried out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on a kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. When their steam engine chugged away from a crowded platform in Prague one morning in 1939, the youngsters,
- [‘GREAT INSIGHT’: Tale of war evacuation to Abbots Langley republished to mark VE Day anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/great-insight-tale-of-war-evacuation-to-abbots-langley-republished-to-mark-ve-day-anniversary/) - A book detailing the remarkable true story of a group of children who were evacuated to Abbots Langley during the Second World War has been republished. Wartime Evacuation to Abbots Langley, which was written by and follows the story of Clive Clark, was originally published in May 2004 by the Abbots Langley Local History Society
- [How the World Jewish Relief archive connects families with their Kindertransport lists](https://kindertransport.org/2025/07/how-the-world-jewish-relief-archive-connects-families-with-their-kindertransport-lists/) - During my recent fellowship at Yad Vashem, I gained access to the Kindertransports lists from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. I also accessed the Austrian collection at the National Library of Israel which has Kindertransport lists to Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, America, Australia, Belgium, and France as well as many other files from the
- [A visiting scholar in an Israel at war (Amy Williams)](https://kindertransport.org/2025/06/a-visiting-scholar-in-an-israel-at-war-amy-williams/) - On 6th October 2024 I landed in Israel. I began my fellowship at Yad Vashem on the one-year anniversary of the largest loss of Jewish life in one day since the Holocaust. Two weeks into my fellowship I found the Kindertransport lists. It would be the first time that former Kindertransport refugees and their families
- [Middle school students present Holocaust Kindertransport history lessons](https://kindertransport.org/2025/06/middle-school-students-present-holocaust-kindertransport-history-lessons/) - Woodmere Middle School eighth graders Romy Fruman and Harley Moritz presented to both Hewlett and Ogden Elementary schools students on the Kindertransport. What started out as a social studies school project has evolved into a passion for learning and sharing information about the Holocaust, most specifically the Kindertransport, for the two middle school students. The duo spoke to Mary
- [Music label to honour aunt killed in Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2025/06/music-label-to-honour-aunt-killed-in-holocaust/) - A journalist whose great aunt was killed during the Holocaust has used a belated compensation payment from the German government to start a music label. Adrian Goldberg, from Birmingham, said he wanted to use the money for something positive after getting an email "out of the blue" that said he was entitled to a small
- [Kindertransport with Mike Levy](https://kindertransport.org/2025/06/kindertransport-with-mike-levy/) - The Kindertransport was a unique act of rescue. 10,000 children, mostly Jewish, were brought over from Nazi Europe in the months leading up to the war. Mike Levy talks about his book which uncovers the unsung heroes who helped save the lives of so many youngsters. Mike Levy was chair of the Harwich Kindertransport Memorial
- [Offspring thank Swanage wartime hero for saving parents’ lives](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/offspring-thank-swanage-wartime-hero-for-saving-parents-lives/) - Children of the original Kindertransport refugees visited Swanage in Dorset, to give thanks to the town – and to the Swanage man who rescued their parents, Trevor Chadwick. A teacher and a volunteer lifeboat crew member Trevor Chadwick risked his life to help children in Czechoslovakia escape the growing Nazi storm as World War Two
- [Woodmere students' Holocaust project leads to memorial bench dedication](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/woodmere-students-holocaust-project-leads-to-memorial-bench-dedication/) - What started out as a social studies school project has evolved into a passion for learning and sharing information about the Holocaust, most specifically the Kindertransport. Harley Moritz and Romy Fruman, Woodmere Middle School eighth graders, created a documentary for their National History Day project at school. They interviewed Manfred Korman, 93, about his experience during
- [Swanage hosting WWII commemoration event on Thursday](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/swanage-hosting-wwii-commemoration-event-on-thursday/) - AN EVENT to commemorate Swanage’s efforts to save almost 700 children during the Second World War is taking place in this Thursday. The event will commemorate the efforts of the Kindertransport, an organised rescue effort that evacuated around 10,000 children from Europe in the late 1930s. Elaine Waterfield, 63, from Upton, organised the event. She
- [Oswestry woman who came on the Kindertransport turns 100](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/oswestry-woman-who-came-on-the-kindertransport-turns-100/) - Ruth Hughes was one of hundreds of children rescued from Hamburg in the winter of 1938, after her parents managed to arrange for her and her brother to be put on one of the last trains out of the city. With only a small number of belongings from home, she waved goodbye to her parents
- [The Elite Jewish Soldiers Who Joined Britain’s Fight against the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/the-elite-jewish-soldiers-who-joined-britains-fight-against-the-nazis/) - In the summer of 1942, the British military decided to create a special unit of German-speaking commandos trained in counterintelligence and what would now be called special operations. The young men they recruited for the new unit, dubbed X Troop, were almost entirely Jewish refugees. Most had arrived in the UK as teenagers on transit
- [Why is Britain’s Kindertransport memorial treated so appallingly?](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/why-is-britains-kindertransport-memorial-treated-so-appallingly/) - For a nation which often prides itself on being the “only” nation which acted to rescue mainly Jewish children on the Kindertransport, it treats its foremost Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station, where many of these children arrived, with such disrespect. You often see people sitting on it, leaving their rubbish on it, eating their
- [Kindertransport girls photo mystery finally solved after 80 years](https://kindertransport.org/2023/07/kindertransport-girls-photo-mystery-finally-solved-after-80-years/) - Now, the mystery of who the three people in the black-and-white photograph are has finally been solved after 84 years. The image, known for years as “three little girls”, is of three young Jewish girls fleeing Nazi Germany. It was taken at London’s Liverpool Street station and became a representative image of the mass evacuation of Jewish
- [Haunted by the Kindertransport and COVID-19, this 95-year-old Jewish writer chronicles a changing world — over lunch](https://kindertransport.org/2023/09/haunted-by-the-kindertransport-and-covid-19-this-95-year-old-jewish-writer-chronicles-a-changing-world-over-lunch/) - When Lore Segal first started writing, she had a single purpose in mind. Soon after arriving in England in 1938 on the Kindertransport from Nazi-occupied Vienna, the 10-year-old girl launched a letter-writing campaign to get her parents out too. It worked: Within a year, they were reunited. Now 95, Segal has four novels and dozens of short
- [The misery of the Kindertransport children](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/the-misery-of-the-kindertransport-children/) - Wrenched from their parents and familiar surroundings, the young refugees found safety in Britain, but were tolerated rather than cherished, says Andrea Hammel From magazine issue:04 November 2023
- [Saving Jewish children from the Nazis: 85 years since Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/saving-jewish-children-from-the-nazis-85-years-since-kindertransport/) - The leaders of the Kindertransport were tireless in creating the frameworks and overcoming the obstacles that saved many lives. November marks the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport project, in which 10,000 Jewish children between the ages of eight and 16 were sent by their parents to Britain in the 10 months after the Nazi pogrom known as
- [My Kinder refugee grandfather inspired me to protect my homeland](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/my-kinder-refugee-grandfather-inspired-me-to-protect-my-homeland/) - British-Israeli law student Kinneret Hamburger was on holiday with her family in Israel on October 7 when she was woken up by an air raid siren. She received a message calling her “to base” — just a day before she was due to move into a new flat. Kinneret, a reserve officer in the IDF, jumped into her
- [I remember being on the Kindertransport – my journey was easier than that faced by today’s refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/i-remember-being-on-the-kindertransport-my-journey-was-easier-than-that-faced-by-todays-refugees/) - It is a bitter irony that the 85th anniversary of the first Kindertransport should coincide with my most recent visit to the Calais camps, where I witnessed the shocking conditions endured by the refugees of today. The Kindertransport saved the lives of many (mostly Jewish) refugee children by bringing them to safety in the UK. I was one of them. Although, at six, I
- [Kindertransport — In 1938 London let a few Jewish children in](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/kindertransport-in-1938-london-let-a-few-jewish-children-in/) - LONDON — Kindertransport, the evacuation to the U.K. of 10,000 mainly Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution in 1938-39, is touted by capitalist politicians and the media as an example of the British government coming to the aid of the Jewish people. The children came from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland over a 10-month period beginning
- [This is what really happened to the children of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/this-is-what-really-happened-to-the-children-of-the-kindertransport/) - The story of the 10,000 children is seen as a tale of British compassion, but a new book claims the reality was more nuanced The story of the 10,000 Jewish children — to whom Britain decided to give a home 85 years ago last month — has produced countless books, films and memorials. Etched into
- [Kindertransport @ the Jewish Repertory Theatre in Buffalo, NY](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/kindertransport-the-jewish-repertory-theatre-in-buffalo-ny/) - THUMBNAIL SKETCH: Diane Samuels powerful historical drama tells the story of how 9 year old Eva, a Jewish German girl, is sent by her parents on the Kindertransport to start a new life with a foster family in Britain just days before the outbreak of WWII. Over 40 years later, she had changed her name to
- [JAN WOOLF ponders the images of humanity that emerge from the tormented, destructive process of the Kindertransport survivor Frank Auerbach](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/out-of-the-ashes/) - Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads Courtauld Gallery “I FEEL there is no grander entity than the individual human being... I would like my work to stand for individual experience.” This statement of Auerbach’s features prominently in his exhibition Charcoal Heads; drawings from the 1950s and ’60s being shown in this combination for the first time.
- [Before it's too Late](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/before-its-too-late/) - Eight decades later, longtime Londoners retrace their childhood escapes on Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld’s kindertransports Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld, a 26-year-old charismatic and forward-thinking British rabbi and educational pioneer, travelled to Vienna and organized the first Kindertransport of close to 300 Orthodox Jewish youngsters. At the
- [I was 11 when my mum started crying at the TV then I learned her past](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/i-was-11-when-my-mum-started-crying-at-the-tv-then-i-learned-her-past/) - The 66-year-old, from Garston, along with his sister Cynthia, dad Arnold, and mum Mina, would tune in to see which pressing topic presenter Esther Rantzen would be covering. But one episode particularly resonated with Howard’s mum, as it delved into the Holocaust, prompting Howard to finally understand something that had long puzzled him. He told the ECHO: "Esther
- [‘From Here On’ play at Harwich Yachting beach to return to screen](https://kindertransport.org/2025/02/from-here-on-play-at-harwich-yachting-beach-to-return-to-screen/) - A FILM featuring 30 young people living in Harwich, Colchester, and beyond about the Kindertransport will be shown in a new free event. From Here On, by the Ipswich based Gecko Theatre and the Good Chance Theatre of London, wowed residents at Harwich Yachting Beach during multiple performances in August and September. The play was performed
- [Watford interfaith group hosts annual Harold Meyer Memorial Lecture](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/watford-interfaith-group-hosts-annual-harold-meyer-memorial-lecture/) - A Watford interfaith group has hosted its annual memorial lecture in honour of one its founding members. The lecture series is a tribute to Harold Meyer, a child refugee from Nazi Germany who arrived on the Kindertransport and was cared for by the Jesuits in London.
- [Holocaust education: a Kindertransport story](https://kindertransport.org/2025/05/holocaust-education-a-kindertransport-story/) - On Yom HaShoah, the JEC Middle School launched its Holocaust education curriculum with a moving program. Dr. Steven Singfer spoke to students, sharing the inspiring story of his father, Aryeh Leib Leo Singfer—a Kindertransport survivor, British paratrooper and proud builder of a Torah-centered life. Today, his legacy lives on through 32 great-grandchildren.
- [Relatives of children saved by Trevor Chadwick to visit Swanage](https://kindertransport.org/2025/04/relatives-of-children-saved-by-trevor-chadwick-to-visit-swanage/) - Stories of the Kindertransport service, which saved the lives of hundreds of children at the beginning of World War Two, are to be told at a special event at Swanage bandstand in Dorset. At 11 am on Thursday May 15th 2025, children and grandchildren of Kindertransport evacuees will be in Swanage to give their thanks
- [Meng salutes a survivor centenarian](https://kindertransport.org/2025/04/meng-salutes-a-survivor-centenarian/) - Rep. Grace Meng visited 100-year-old Shoah survivor Hanna Slome at Sloane’s home in Flushing, New York, bringing with her a proclamation declaring Slome’s birthday “Hanna Slome Day” in the Sixth Congressional District. Slome, a Czechoslovakia native, was whisked from Nazi persecution to a new home in England aboard the Kindertransport in 1939. Nick Winton, the son
- [Southern Virginia University’s Theatre Presents ‘Kindertransport’](https://kindertransport.org/2025/04/southern-virginia-universitys-theatre-presents-kindertransport/) - Written by Diane Samuels, “Kindertransport” is a powerful, emotional drama that tells the story of a young Jewish girl, Eva, who is separated from her family and sent from Nazi-occupied Germany to safety in England during World War II as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation. The story of families being separated because of the
- [Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare wants to revisit WWII's Kindertransport for a future novel](https://kindertransport.org/2025/03/mortal-instruments-author-cassandra-clare-wants-to-revisit-wwiis-kindertransport-for-a-future-novel/) - Cassandra Clare is a New York Times bestselling author known for The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Wicked Powers series — but, if she were to step away from her traditional fantasy genre for a project, she happens to know exactly what she’d be writing about… and it’s a piece of real
- [Kindertransports in the New York Times: As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story.](https://kindertransport.org/2025/03/as-children-they-fled-the-nazis-alone-newly-found-papers-tell-their-story/) - Almost 10,000 Jewish children were part of the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that helped minors flee Nazi Germany to Britain, via the Netherlands, between December 1938 and September 1939. Over time, many details have been lost about this part of Holocaust history. But in the fall of 2024, Amy Williams, a researcher, unearthed a trove
- [Cyclists Retrace Jewish Child Refugees’ Journey To Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/cyclists-retrace-jewish-child-refugees-journey-to-britain/) - Almost 80 years after the first “Kindertransport” evacuations of Jewish children to safety in Britain, 42 people set off Sunday on a memorial bike ride that will retrace their journey. The cyclists set off from Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse station, where a statue commemorates the 10,000 mostly Jewish children who made it to Britain from Nazi Germany
- [Cyclists retrace 1938 Jewish ‘Kindertransport’ child refugee journey to Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/cyclists-retrace-1938-jewish-kindertransport-child-refugee-journey-to-britain/) - BERLIN – Almost 80 years after the first “Kindertransport” evacuations of Jewish children to safety in Britain, 42 people set off Sunday on a memorial bike ride that will retrace their journey from Berlin to London. Among the saved children was Paul Alexander. The only participant in the ride who was on a Kindertransport —
- [Lib Dem leader calls for 3,000 refugee children to be brought to UK](https://kindertransport.org/2015/12/lib-dem-leader-calls-for-3000-refugee-children-to-be-brought-to-uk/) - LIB Dem leader Tim Farron is calling for the UK to take in 3,000 refugee children and likened their plight to Jewish youngsters brought to Britain via Kindertransport during the Holocaust.
- [Kind Hedy Epstein on hunger strike](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/kind-hedy-epstein-on-hunger-strike/) - BEIRUT -- An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor entered the second day of her hunger strike on Tuesday, in protest over the Egyptian government's refusal to allow an international Palestinian solidarity march to enter the Gaza Strip. "There comes a time in one's life when one has to step up and risk one's own body," she
- [SIMCHA - Lincoln's Klezmer Band : Performing at X-Church, Gainsborough](https://kindertransport.org/2025/02/simcha-lincolns-klezmer-band-performing-at-x-church-gainsborough/) - Witness SIMCHA present their 'Kindertransport' concert-documentary. Following the story of the 1938 rescue of thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe. Special concert-documentary by Simcha - Lincoln’s Klezmer Band Date: Saturday 22nd March 2025 Venue: X-Church, Ashcroft Road, Gainsborough DN21 1BY Time: 19.30 Simcha is presenting its concert-documentary called Kindertransport. This tells the story of the
- [Holocaust Memorial Day commemorated in Islington](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/holocaust-memorial-day-commemorated-in-islington/) - At a special event at Islington Assembly Hall yesterday, attendees also commemorated the victims of atrocities and genocides worldwide, including in places such as Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Iraq, and Cambodia. The event included guest speakers, such as Gerry Hahlo, who told the story of how his grandfather, Georg, escaped from Nazi Germany - after eluding
- [Lessons of the Kindertransport: refugees then and now](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/lessons-of-the-kindertransport-refugees-then-and-now/) - By Edward Wallace, First Year, Politics and Social Policy As the world marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the darkest chapter of human history reminds us of the light that flickered even in those harrowing times- the Kindertransport. As the spectre of the Holocaust loomed over Europe, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were transported to the United
- [The ordinary suburban street with a long-hidden tale of daring rescue](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/the-ordinary-suburban-street-with-a-long-hidden-tale-of-daring-rescue/) - Among the grand Victorian houses on Linnet Lane in Sefton Park is a building with a very special history. During the war, Number 19 Linnet Lane was used as a hostel to shelter 42 Jewish children who had fled the Nazi regime on the Kindertransport programme. The Kindertransport was a rescue effort which took place
- [UK Embassy holds event commemorating Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/uk-embassy-holds-event-commemorating-intl-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - The British Embassy in Israel held an event to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the ambassador's residence in Ramat Gan, with the March of the Living educational program. Three Holocaust survivors - Walter Bingham, 101, George Shefi, 93, and Paul Alexander, 89 - attended along with the embassy staff, diplomats and their families. The three
- [Jewish group stage anti-Israel protest at Kindertransport monument on Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/jewish-group-stage-anti-israel-protest-at-kindertransport-monument-on-holocaust-memorial-day/) - - The Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station was vandalised on Holocaust Memorial Day by a group called 'Jews Against Genocide'. (Image: X) Jewish demonstrators staged a protest against Israeli “genocide” at the Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street station in London on Holocaust Memorial Day. They draped signs over the monument — which commemorates 10,000 children rescued
- [Lowestoft Town Council – Remembrance ceremony](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/https-hmd-org-uk-activity-lowestoft-town-council-remembrance-ceremony-hmd-2025/) - Activity information Activity type: Public activity Organisation name: Lowestoft Town Council Address: Lowestoft Railway Station Parcels Office Denmark Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 2EG United Kingdom 11:00am | Lowestoft Railway Station Remembering Lowestoft's connection to the Kindertransport, there will be a series of reflections and poetry given by Lowestoft Town Councillors and local academy schools. This event will
- [HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: Lord Alf Dubs to speak on how his family escaped Nazi persecution](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/holocaust-memorial-day-lord-alf-dubs-to-speak-on-how-his-family-escaped-nazi-persecution/) - You're invited to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day at our free event on Monday 27 January. The event will be held at The Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) in King Street, Hammersmith. We're marking the day with an in-person talk open to all residents. It runs from 11am to 1.30pm. Lord Alf Dubs will be sharing his story
- [Electric Palace and Essex University Kindertransport event](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/electric-palace-and-essex-university-kindertransport-event/) - A FILM about a Kindertransport hero who helped save hundreds of youngsters from the Nazis will be shown in Harwich to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The Electric Palace Theatre and Essex University have joined forces to organise a film screening and talk on Monday, January 27. Royal Historical Society president Prof Lucy Noakes will introduce a screening of One Life,
- [Holocaust survivor awarded Germany’s Federal Order of Merit for Holocaust education efforts](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/holocaust-survivor-awarded-germanys-federal-order-of-merit-for-holocaust-education-efforts/) - George Shefi, a Holocaust survivor who fled Nazi Germany as a child, was awarded the Federal Order of Merit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The award was presented by the German Ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, in an emotional ceremony at the Ambassador’s residence in Herzliya last Friday. The event, held ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- [Kindertransport 'lost' records found by researcher](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/kindertransport-lost-records-found-by-researcher/) - New insights into one of the most remarkable stories from the years before World War Two have been discovered in 'lost' records. The Kindertransport saw thousands of Jewish children fleeing the rise of facism in Europe before the borders were sealed. Details of their journey through Holland were not thought to have survived but have now been
- [From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2024/12/https-www-jpost-com-opinion-article-832218/) - I have vivid memories of my own departure from Germany with the Kindertransport on July 25, 1929, almost one month before the outbreak of World War II. Last month, we commemorated Kristallnacht, “the night of the broken glass,” which took place during November 9-10, 1938. It was the major Nazi pogrom targeting Jews, which marked the
- [I owe Nicholas Winton my life – today I’ll be thinking of him](https://kindertransport.org/2024/12/i-owe-nicholas-winton-my-life-today-ill-be-thinking-of-him/) - Rantzen then asked for all the Kindertransport people present to stand. Around 20 – including my mother – stood up, most of them now elderly, to a tremendous round of applause. The event was exactly like the 1988 program, That’s Life, where Winton met the children he saved during the Holocaust. Rantzen then asked all the people who wouldn’t have
- [Holocaust survivor's daughter visits Leehurst Swan](https://kindertransport.org/2024/10/holocaust-survivors-daughter-visits-leehurst-swan/) - Leehurst Swan welcomed Hilary Hodsman in conjunction with the Holocaust Educational Trust. She recounted her parents' poignant journey to the UK on the Kindertransport. The event was attended by pupils from Leehurst Swan, Godolphin, and Wyvern St Edmunds, creating a joint learning experience.
- [‘For the Child’ exhibit tells Kindertransport story for adults and children](https://kindertransport.org/2024/10/for-the-child-exhibit-tells-kindertransport-story-for-adults-and-children/) - The exhibit tells heroic stories of simple people, which can ultimately inspire students' Image of Herbert Kaye's suitcase from 'For the Child' exhibition. (Photo courtesy of Milli Segal) An exhibit sure to prompt robust intergenerational dialogue, “For the Child – The Story of the Kindertransport,” began its Pittsburgh tour on Sept. 22 at Rodef Shalom Congregation.
- [Moving Holocaust exhibit at Seneca Valley tells story of children rescued from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2024/09/moving-holocaust-exhibit-at-seneca-valley-tells-story-of-children-rescued-from-nazis/) - Sam Luszic, Anna Gotlinsky and Caden Gekeler, all sophomores, view a few of the 30 panels lining the LIGHT Center at Seneca Valley Intermediate High School. The exhibit, titled “For the Child: Stories of the Kindertransport,” included 30 panels depicting the items Jewish children packed in their suitcases when they were saved from Nazi persecution
- [The Kindertransport Statues Of Liverpool Street Station](https://kindertransport.org/2024/09/the-kindertransport-statues-of-liverpool-street-station/) - 85 years ago, Liverpool Street station welcomed hundreds of refugee children. It's not unusual to find a group of kids hanging around outside McDonald's. These five are a bit different, however. They are dressed in the clothing of another age, laden down not with Roblox rucksacks, but traditional valises and satchels. These five represent the
- [Dance performance outside Liverpool Street Station to mark 85 years since Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2024/09/dance-performance-outside-liverpool-street-station-to-mark-85-years-since-kindertransport/) - A new dance-theatre production outside Liverpool Street Station this weekend will mark 85 years since the UK welcomed nearly 10,000 Jewish children on the Kindertransport. Billed as “a powerful exploration of displacement, movement and being forced to find a new home”, the 35-minute show From Here On, by the theatre company Good Chance, brings history
- [From Here On musical performance at Liverpool Street Station](https://kindertransport.org/2024/09/from-here-on-musical-performance-at-liverpool-street-station/) - From Here On brings history to life alongside global contemporary stories of children seeking sanctuary now. Marking 85 years since the Kindertransport saved 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe, this show is a powerful exploration of displacement, movement and being forced to find a new home. 40 young people from around the world take
- [Kindertransport refugees given warm reception at Mansion House](https://kindertransport.org/2024/07/kindertransport-refugees-given-warm-reception-at-mansion-house/) - Eighty-five years since the Kindertransport brought the youngest victims of Nazi terror to safety in Great Britain, some of the former child refugees have been hosted by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of the City of London – just a stone’s throw from their arrival point. Eight refugees and their descendants were welcomed to
- [The Kindertransport rescue](https://kindertransport.org/2024/06/the-kindertransport-rescue/) - After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, the idea to rescue children from the Nazis and bring them to Britain is proposed to the British Government by two of World Jewish Relief’s founders, alongside other organisations, and a delegation of prominent British Jews. Following a 45-minute appeal by the delegation directly to the Prime Minister,
- [KINDERTRANSPORT – RESCUING CHILDREN ON THE BRINK OF WAR AT ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM](https://kindertransport.org/2024/06/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-2/) - SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS GALLERY Through November 17, 2024 Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War showcases the astonishing rescue effort that, in only nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi Europe to the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, stories, and firsthand testimony, those who lived through the “Kindertransport” program tell its history.The exhibition’s
- [Son of Holocaust survivor returns to Austrian school which expelled his father for being Jewish](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/son-of-holocaust-survivor-returns-to-austrian-school-which-expelled-his-father-for-being-jewish/) - Michael Bibring continues to share the testimony of his late father Harry Bibring who fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport Michael-Bibring-with-students-from-the-school. Pic: HET More than 70 students from a grammar school in Austria heard from the son of Holocaust survivor and former student of the school, the late Harry Bibring. Amerling Gymnasium (grammar) school in
- [JEC Middle School Remembers](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/jec-middle-school-remembers-2/) - In light of recent current events, Jewish students learning about the Holocaust and its background is more important than ever. This spring, students at JEC Middle School have been deeply immersed in the study of the Holocaust, with each grade focusing on a different aspect. Sixth grade students focused on individual stories of survivors with
- [Families recreate Kindertransport journey](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/families-recreate-kindertransport-journey/) - Dozens of families of children who came to the UK seeking safety from Nazi Germany before the start of World War Two have recreated part of the Kindertransport journey. The first children arrived at the port of Harwich in Essex on 2 December 1938. Family members travelled between London Liverpool Street and Harwich on Monday
- [Kindertransport refugees receive standing ovation at 85th anniversary concert](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/kindertransport-refugees-receive-standing-ovation-at-85th-anniversary-concert/) - Kinder, among them Lady Grenfell-Baines, Lord Alf Dubs and Bronia Snow, hailed as “national treasures” at Wigmore Hall event. The concert was hosted by renowned actor Tom Conti, who recently portrayed the German-Jewish refugee Albert Einstein in the film Oppenheimer. Kindertransport refugees have attended an emotional commemorative concert to mark the 85th anniversary of their
- [Glasgow children to be helped by a city firm started 70 years ago by a WW2 refugee](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/glasgow-children-to-be-helped-by-a-city-firm-started-70-years-ago-by-a-ww2-refugee/) - A Scots business founded by a refugee who fled Nazi oppression on a Kindertransport train is celebrating 70 years in business, by helping 70 disadvantaged children in Glasgow. Fred Weiss was born at a time of turbulent politics in Europe, and to a family later decimated by the holocaust. By the time he was a
- [Glasgow Kindertransport refugee celebrates 100th birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/glasgow-kindertransport-refugee-celebrates-100th-birthday/) - Henry Wuga is a refugee based in Glasgow, who has just turned 100 years old. In May 1939, as pre-war tensions were rising in his home country of Germany, he escaped to Scotland via a child safety mission known as the Kindertransport. By the time World War II began, he was in Glasgow, a place
- [Jewish charity celebrates Holocaust refugee's milestone birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/jewish-charity-celebrates-holocaust-refugees-milestone-birthday/) - Marianne Phillips and sculptor Frances Segelman who was commissioned to create a bronze bust of Marianne (Image: The Fed) A Prestwich Jewish charity has celebrated a Holocaust refugee and volunteer's milestone birthday. Marianne Phillips, who has told her story through The Fed's ongoing My Voice project, celebrated her 100th birthday on Valentines Day. Marianne is treasured by all
- [California Department of Education brings survivor testimony to Bay Area schools](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/california-department-of-education-brings-survivor-testimony-to-bay-area-schools/) - More than 100 students in public high schools across West Contra Costa County took part in an inaugural, district-wide educational program last month, hearing powerful testimony from East Bay Holocaust survivor Lisa Brinner. Now 95, she was only 11 when she was sent out of Austria on a Kindertransport, which saved children from the Holocaust
- [Heroes of the Kindertransport: The Daring Rescue of 669 Children from Nazi Persecution](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/heroes-of-the-kindertransport-the-daring-rescue-of-669-children-from-nazi-persecution/) - Eva Paddock and Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, half-sisters who found themselves aboard the final 'kindertransport' train from Prague in 1939, have shared their poignant story. This daring operation, orchestrated by Nicholas Winton and his fellow humanitarians, managed to save 669 children - predominantly Jewish - from the looming threat of Nazi persecution.As the clock ticked towards
- [Shoah and Kindertransport survivors meet for the first time](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/shoah-and-kindertransport-survivors-meet-for-the-first-time/) - Photo Credit: Adam Lawrence/March of the Living UK In an emotional meeting this week, 100-year-old Kindertransportee Walter Bingham met 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert at her London home. Bingham, the oldest living journalist, was visiting from Israel to speak at a variety of events for March of the Living UK that included two fundraising dinners
- [Israel’s president hosts Kindertransport survivors on 85th anniversary of rescue operation](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/israels-president-hosts-kindertransport-survivors-on-85th-anniversary-of-rescue-operation/) - Kindertransport and Oct. 7 survivor Mirjam Szpiro with President Isaac Herzog and first lady Michal Herzog, and chairman of the International March of the Living Shmuel Roseman, in Jerusalem on Jan. 24, 2024. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO. Israeli President Isaac Herzog hosted Holocaust survivors at his residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday, including 10 Jews saved
- [Bath woman, 95, 'owes her life' to Kindertransport after family killed in Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/bath-woman-95-owes-her-life-to-kindertransport-after-family-killed-in-holocaust/) - A 95-year-old care home resident from Bath says she 'owes her life' to Kindertransport after escaping Germany in the Second World War. Friedel Hollis managed to avoid being sent to a concentration camp after being put on a train out of the country like thousands of other Jewish children when she was 10-years-old. She would
- [President's Residence hosts event marking 85th anniversary of Kindertransport This year marks 85 years since the Second World War began, of which the Holocaust was such a tragic and notorious part.](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/presidents-residence-hosts-event-marking-85th-anniversary-of-kindertransport-this-year-marks-85-years-since-the-second-world-war-began-of-which-the-holocaust-was-such-a-tragic-and-notorious-part/) - The 85th anniversary of the Kindertransperts, which brought hundreds of German, Czech, and Austrian children to the United Kingdom, thus saving them from possible death at the hands of the Nazis, had been scheduled to take place last October. But then came the massacre by Hamas, and the Kindertransport event had to be postponed. In
- [Former mayor shares proud story of her heroic grandfather who saved hundreds of children from Nazis](https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2024/01/22/former-mayor-shares-story-of-heroic-grandfather-85-years-after-he-saved-hundreds-of-children-from-nazis/) - It is 85 years since the launch of the Kindertransport project, recently depicted in the film One Life, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. He plays British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton, who helped bring groups of Jewish and other endangered children out of German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938-39. Another man who played a major part in saving many
- [The Kindertransport: What Really Happened](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/the-kindertransport-what-really-happened/) - A new book reveals the darker side of the operation that rescued 10,000 children from Nazi Germany. In the late 1930s, as the Nazis began targeting Jews and sending them to ghettos, work camps, and to their deaths, the British government came up with a plan to save Jewish children. They were going to introduce
- [Kindertransport couple receive lifetime achievement award](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/kindertransport-couple-receive-lifetime-achievement-award/) - A couple who both came to the UK on the Kindertransport have won a prestigious award for their contribution to the Jewish community. Ann and Bob Kirk, who have been volunteering at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood for over 70 years, were recognised for their “service, dedication, love and loyalty” on receiving
- [The Kindertransport’s complex legacy](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/the-kindertransports-complex-legacy/) - When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver system. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children — mostly from Jewish families — would arrive in Britain via the same process. Last month marked the 85th commemoration
- [Walter Bingham, Kindertransport Survivor, Celebrates 100th Birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/walter-bingham-kindertransport-survivor-celebrates-100th-birthday/) - “I could never have imagined that at the age of 100 I would be a witness to the horrific pogrom against Jews that took place on October 7 and the terrifying resurgence of antisemitism since. As I celebrate today, I also pray for the future of the State of Israel and the Jewish people” —
- [Liverpool Street station £1.5 billion revamp puts Kindertransport statue front and centre](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/liverpool-street-station-1-5-billion-revamp-puts-kindertransport-statue-front-and-centre/) - Liverpool Street Station Kindertransport memorial Plans to regenerate of one of the busiest train terminals in the UK will ensure a greater focus on its iconic Holocaust refugee memorial. As part of a wider £1.5 billion regeneration project, £450 million of upgrades to Liverpool Street Station would focus on addressing accessibility, capacity and overcrowding issues
- [From fleeing Hitler to Mars: the scientist who changed space travel](https://kindertransport.org/2023/05/from-fleeing-hitler-to-mars-the-scientist-who-changed-space-travel/) - The remarkable journey of Ben Abeles will be celebrated next week by the opening of a new archive. Ben Abeles’ impact on science was out of this world. He helped develop alloys that were key components of the radioisotope generators that powered US robot space probes on their interplanetary journeys. Nasa was then able to
- [Kindertransport nurse was the first to hold the King when he was born](https://kindertransport.org/2023/05/kindertransport-nurse-was-the-first-to-hold-the-king-when-he-was-born/) - On 5 July 1939 Ingelore Czarlinski, 15, and her sister Marion, 11, two Jewish girls from Berlin arrived in Harwich, a port town in Essex, on the Kindertransport. Just nine years later, Ingelore (now Susan) was the first person in the world to hold the future King Charles in her arms. Susan, who had coincidentally
- [What was the Kindertransport? King Charles honours rescue of Jewish children](https://kindertransport.org/2023/04/what-was-the-kindertransport-king-charles-honours-rescue-of-jewish-children/) - Britain’s King Charles III visited a memorial on Friday to 10,000 children who were rescued from Nazi Germany during the Kindertransport. The statue in Hamburg is called The Final Parting and shows the young refugees leaving for Britain with their belongings in a suitcase. Most of their parents were murdered in the Holocaust. It was one of several commemorative
- [German federal parliament president pays respects at Kindertransport memorial](https://kindertransport.org/2023/02/german-federal-parliament-president-pays-respects-at-kindertransport-memorial/) - The President of the German Bundestag (federal parliament) visited the Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) monument at Liverpool Street Station. The visit coinciding with the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport, Bärbel Bas, representing the national parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, placed a stone beside the famous memorial statue, in the presence of Kinder and their families. Also
- [The lost history of Tynemouth's Holocaust safe house for girls](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/the-lost-history-of-tynemouths-holocaust-safe-house-for-girls/) - Number 55 Percy Park looks much like all the other town houses on a well-kept seafront parade in Tynemouth. But more than 80 years ago, it played a small yet significant part in the rescue of Jewish children from the Nazis. Following a BBC investigation, a blue plaque was unveiled on the house to commemorate
- [Holocaust survivor, 96: ‘I’m grateful to the kind British people who helped me build my life"](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/holocaust-survivor-96-im-grateful-to-the-kind-british-people-who-helped-me-build-my-life/) - On 9 November 1938, the Nazis initiated a campaign of hatred against Jews in all Nazi territories, known as Kristallnacht. This was the eve of Gabriele’s 12th birthday and she remembers “dreadful screaming”. The next day she waited excitedly for her father to take her out to celebrate as arranged. “My father never appeared,” she
- [Kindertransport refugees who survived Holocaust reunite](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/kindertransport-refugees-who-survived-holocaust-reunite/) - Hilda Fogelson, formerly Hilde Anker, received this German identification card in 1934. She used it when she fled on the Kindertransport to escape Nazi-occupied Germany.Photo from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Fogelson. Hilda Fogelson remembers Berlin fondly although she left in 1939. As an 13-year-old, she boarded a ship bound for the
- [Who are the Holocaust survivors in UK Parliament's memorial day portraits?](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/who-are-the-holocaust-survivors-in-uk-parliaments-memorial-day-portraits/) - Children evacuated from Germany on the Kindertransport in 1938/1939 are given candies in Southampton, England (photo credit: MAARIV) The UK Parliament is set to exhibit 30 portraits of people affected by the Holocaust, genocide or identity-based persecution in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day which is marked internationally at the end of the month of January.
- [Ottawa descendants of Kindertransport survivors reflect on parents' rescue from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2022/10/ottawa-descendants-of-kindertransport-survivors-reflect-on-parents-rescue-from-nazis/) - In late August 1939, one week before the outbreak of the Second World War, 13-year-old Dieter Eger said goodbye to his parents and boarded a train in his hometown of Frankfurt, Germany. He was bound for England as part of a rescue effort, the Kindertransport (children’s transport), mounted by British refugee groups to save Jewish
- [Kindertransport families to open exhibit at Imperial War Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2019/12/kindertransport-families-to-open-exhibit-at-imperial-war-museum/) - Those rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport and the descendants of their rescuers are opening a new exhibit on the remarkable humanitarian aid mission at the Imperial War Museum next month. The special display titled ‘A Child’s Road to Freedom: The Kindertransport Activists’ will open on 12 January and tell how 10,000 Jewish children
- [Kinder castle saved from ‘perilous’ state after 20-year campaign](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/kinder-castle-saved-from-perilous-state-after-20-year-campaign/) - The future of the Grade I Listed Gwrych Castle in Abergele, which was the original home of Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva, was secured last week after UK government-funded National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) stepped in with “the final piece of the financial jigsaw”. Dating from 1810, with direct links to British royalty, the castle
- [Nicholas Winton saved me from the Nazis. I only found out 50 years later](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/nicholas-winton-saved-me-from-the-nazis-i-only-found-out-50-years-later/) - It was long after I arrived on a Kindertransport in London in the summer of 1939 that I heard of Nicky Winton. I simply knew I had arrived on a Kindertransport, but had no idea who had made it possible for me, and hundreds of other mainly Jewish children to escape the Nazis. Then, in
- [Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/nicholas-winton-is-dead-at-106-saved-children-from-the-holocaust/) - Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.
- [Nicholas Winton's children: The Czech Jews rescued by 'British Schindler'](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/nicholas-wintons-children-the-czech-jews-rescued-by-british-schindler/) - Dubbed the "British Schindler", Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps from Czechoslovakia as the outbreak of World War Two loomed. His death at the age of 106 came on the same day 76 years ago when the train carrying the largest number of children - 241 - departed from
- [KIndertransport Museum opens in Vienna](https://kindertransport.org/2015/01/kindertransport-museum-opens-in-vienna/) - A Kindertransport Museum has recently opened in Vienna: FÜR DAS KIND Memorial Museum, 1030 Vienna, Radetzkystraße 5/Pfefferhofgasse 5 “Für das Kind” is dedicated to all who helped ten thousand – mostly Jewish - children in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to escape and to survive the Nazi machinery of death between 1938 and 1939.
- [The Für Das Kind’ Kindertransport exhibition finds home in Vienna](https://kindertransport.org/2015/01/the-fur-das-kind-kindertransport-exhibition-finds-home-in-vienna/) - After a decade traveling the world, the ‘Für Das Kind’ Kindertransport exhibition finds a permanent home in Vienna.
- [Britain’s Schindler, a Reluctant Hero](https://kindertransport.org/2014/07/britains-schindler-a-reluctant-hero/) - In 1988, the BBC program “That’s Life!” aired an episode dedicated to Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939. In the wake of Sir Nicholas’s 105th birthday last May, a segment from that episode went viral.
- [Man Who Saved 669 Kids From Nazis Turns 105, Gets Beautiful Birthday Honor](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/man-who-saved-669-kids-from-nazis-turns-105-gets-beautiful-birthday-honor/) - The story of Sir Nicholas Winton is one of the most profound tales of humanitarianism that you've probably never heard. After saving 669 children, most of them Jewish, from likely death at Nazi concentration camps at the onset of World War II, it was announced Monday -- on Winton's 105th birthday -- that the heroic
- [Inauguration of Kindertransport statue in Hamburg supported by UK refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/inauguration-of-kindertransport-statue-in-hamburg-supported-by-uk-refugees/) - The Association of Jewish Refugees represented Britain at last week’s inauguration of a Kindertransport statue in Hamburg, Germany. Sir Erich Reich, Andrea Goodmaker and Carol Rossen from AJR were among the first to see the bronze sculpture, called The Last Farewell, by internationally acclaimed artist Frank Meisler, himself a Kind.
- [Kindertransport, 75 years on: 'It was fantastic to feel free at last'](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/kindertransport-75-years-on-it-was-fantastic-to-feel-free-at-last/) - Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of children arrived without their parents at the Essex port of Harwich, and took a train to London's Liverpool Street station. After the war, many of the children settled in Britain, their families having been murdered by the Nazis.These are the stories of five of those children.
- [Survivors remember Kindertransport flight from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/survivors-remember-kindertransport-flight-from-nazis/) - Monday is World Kindertransport Day, with events to mark the anniversary in many countries. Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of kids arrived without their parents at the English port of Harwich, and took a train to London's Liverpool Street Station. Some 10,000 children, most but not all Jewish, would escape the Nazis
- [UK tour of Diane Samuels' Kindertransport opened at Royal Brighton](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/uk-tour-of-diane-samuels-kindertransport-opened-at-royal-brighton/) - The revival of Diane Samuels' Kindertransport has been prompted by the 75th anniversary of the first arrivals of the kinder, something that has led to another play on the subject, Suitcase, also touring this autumn.
- [Wartime Kindertransport remembered with Lime Street station performance](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/wartime-kindertransport-remembered-with-lime-street-station-performance/) - Johanna Hacker rarely spoke of the day her parents buttoned her into an English-style coat, carefully chosen so she wouldn’t stand out, and waved her off at the railway station in Vienna. One of the 9,500 unaccompanied children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to be rescued from Nazi occupation in the Kindertransport project, she
- [Return to school for a survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/return-to-school-for-a-survivor/) - On boarding a packed train out of Nazi-occupied Prague in June 1939, nine-year-old John Karlik and his younger sister Vera didn’t realise they were waving goodbye to their father for the final time. The pair escaped after Moravian clergyman Bishop Shaw, who was on a visit to Prague, arranged for them to catch what turned
- [Poignant photograph that proves pensioner's family died at Auschwitz](https://kindertransport.org/2013/01/poignant-photograph-that-proves-pensioners-family-died-at-auschwitz/) - The photograph appeared "out of the blue" and showed a battered black suitcase, a name, and a number. It finally proved what the Dorset pensioner had long suspected – that his parents and grandmother perished in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz nearly seven decades ago. Mr Grenville and his sister were among 10,000 Jewish
- [Newsnight at Torriano – Kindertransport Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/newsnight-at-torriano-kindertransport-memorial/) - Year 6 welcomed several very special guests on Thursday afternoon. Not only did Rabbi Bernd Koschland come to tell the children all about his experiences of the Kindertransport, he brought along with him the Newsnight film crew! Rabbi Bernd’s story is remarkable. Born in a small town near Nuremburg in Germany, he witnessed first hand
- [Holocaust survivor’s story of strength and hope shared at Bushey care home](https://kindertransport.org/2025/03/holocaust-survivors-story-of-strength-and-hope-shared-at-bushey-care-home/) - Bushey House Beaumont, in High Street, Bushey, hosted Holocaust survivor John Fieldsend, 93, who shared his remarkable story of survival and resilience. Mr Fieldsend recounted his experiences of escaping the Holocaust after being born in Czechoslovakia in 1931. He shared his escape through the Kindertransport, a rescue effort which brought thousands of Jewish children to
- [Theatre producer on Harwich's Kindertransport film and exhibition](https://kindertransport.org/2025/03/theatre-producer-on-harwichs-kindertransport-film-and-exhibition/) - A LONDON theatre producer has revealed the process behind a play as a film screening and exhibition comes to Harwich. ‘From Here On’, by the Ipswich-based Gecko Theatre and the Good Chance Theatre of London, wowed audiences on Harwich Yachting Beach last August and September. The play was performed in Harwich because it was the main entry point for children
- [New Holocaust learning tool for schools in Wales](https://kindertransport.org/2025/03/new-holocaust-learning-tool-for-schools-in-wales/) - Secondary school pupils will hear the stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees who made Wales their home, thanks to a new educational resource created by Aberystwyth University and the Jewish History Association of Wales. The project uses local stories of refugees who found sanctuary in Wales to tell the history of the Holocaust through photographs,
- [‘We can now confirm the children were on those trains’: Documents revealing how Jewish children fled the Nazis found by Nottingham experts](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/we-can-now-confirm-the-children-were-on-those-trains-documents-revealing-how-jewish-children-fled-the-nazis-found-by-nottingham-experts/) - Hundreds of documents detailing the personal stories of children who escaped the Nazis before the Second World War have been unearthed by Nottingham experts. The remarkable finds relate to the Kindertransport programme – one of the largest organised rescue operations in history. Between 1938 and 1940, thousands of Jewish children were transported to safety from
- [Until the Stars Align](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/until-the-stars-align/) - Author Carolyn Summer Quinn has received multiple accolades for her recent works, reinforcing her position as a notable writer in historical fiction and family drama. Her books Until the Stars Align and Vanished on the Vaudeville Circuit have earned recognition for their narrative depth and exploration of human resilience. Until the Stars Align has been named a finalist for The
- [Lowestoft Railway Station to host Kindertransport exhibition](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/lowestoft-railway-station-to-host-kindertransport-exhibition/) - The A Thousand Kisses exhibition will be on display at Lowestoft Railway Station from January 27 (Image: Lowestoft Central Project) A railway station will host a Kindertransport exhibition to tell the story of 10,000 children who fled Nazi Germany. The critically acclaimed exhibition, A Thousand Kisses, will be on display at Lowestoft Railway Station from
- [Adam Gidwitz: “Most people just want a good protagonist”](https://kindertransport.org/2025/01/adam-gidwitz-most-people-just-want-a-good-protagonist/) - At the Neev Literature Festival, 2024, the American author of children’s books spoke about his love for espionage novels, honouring his ancestors in his work, why he included an Indian character in his latest book, and holding the attention of young readers Let us begin with your latest novel, Max in the House of Spies. How
- [One memory of Hanukkah as a child lasts a lifetime for Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2024/12/one-memory-of-hanukkah-as-a-child-lasts-a-lifetime-for-holocaust-survivor/) - Henry Baum, 97, doesn’t remember much about Germany being he was only a boy when his mother put him on the Kindertransport in order to escape the atrocities Jewish people were facing during the Holocaust. However, there is one memory that he loves to recall. “No matter what happens in your life, all of the good things you learn
- [A New Historical Finding: Kindertransport Lists (a blog post)](https://kindertransport.org/2024/12/a-new-historical-finding-kindertransport-lists-a-blog-post/) - Dr Amy Williams is currently working with Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Yale University Press, and Camden House to produce new books on the history and memory of the Kindertransport. Dr Amy Williams is a current fellow at Yad Vashem. It has been repeatedly claimed by scholars that the lists of mainly Jewish children who escaped from Nazism
- [Holocaust Memorial Day in Newcastle](https://kindertransport.org/2024/12/holocaust-memorial-day-in-newcastle/) - Guest speaker Brenda Dinsdale, honorary life president of Newcastle Reform Synagogue will explore the extraordinary story of the Kindertransport, a rescue effort which brought thousands of mostly Jewish children to Britain during the Second World War. Brenda will examine the stories of those who travelled and then settled in the North East. Where & when
- [Kindertransport survivors and families in S.F. mark 85th anniversary of heroic rescue operation](https://kindertransport.org/2024/12/kindertransport-survivors-and-families-in-s-f-mark-85th-anniversary-of-heroic-rescue-operation/) - Jewish News of Northern California, By Sue Fishkoff | November 5, 2024 Robin Herzog’s father, Steffen, was 8 when he and his brother boarded a train in Frankfurt headed to safety in England. Jacqueline Shelton’s mother, Ilse, was 17 when her train left Berlin for the U.K. Ralph Samuel was 7 when he took a
- [Nicholas Winton Street – Czech Street Named After British Hero](https://kindertransport.org/2024/10/nicholas-winton-street-czech-street-named-after-british-hero/) - Philanthropist, humanitarian and British hero, Sir Nicholas Winton, has been recognised for his honourable actions during the Holocaust through the naming of a new Czech street, along with a sizeable mural. The street has been unveiled as a memorial for Winton to remember his transportation of 669 Jewish Czech children to Britain, saving them from the horrors
- [From Here On, Greenwich & Docklands International Festival](https://kindertransport.org/2024/09/from-here-on-greenwich-docklands-international-festival/) - An exhilarating, emotive performance about displaced children both historically and in a contemporary context, that invites individuals to actively combat anti-refugee policies. As part of the Greenwich & Docklands International Festival, Good Chance and Gecko Theatre’s From Here On marks 85 years since the Kindertransport saved thousands of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe. Working in conjunction with Gecko’s professional company
- [Man recalls seeing Hitler in Vienna on birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2024/08/man-recalls-seeing-hitler-in-vienna-on-birthday/) - A man who came to England during World War Two said that he can remember the moment that, "Hitler walked straight through the middle of Vienna during my ninth birthday party." John Farago, 95, who now lives in Deal, Kent, said that members of his Jewish family who he was living with in Austria were
- [Kindertransport exhibit opens eyes at Illinois Holocaust Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2024/06/kindertransport-exhibit-opens-eyes-at-illinois-holocaust-museum/) - (click link for video) The Illinois Holocaust Museum has a new exhibit about a program during World War II that saved thousands of childrens' lives. It was called the "Kindertransport." FOX 32's Natalie Bomke talks with a Chicagoan who said that transport saved his life.
- [Over 70 family members of Kindertransport children visit Harwich](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/over-70-family-members-of-kindertransport-children-visit-harwich/) - FAMILY members of Jewish child refugees who arrived in the UK through the Harwich port during the Kindertransport movement in the lead up to the Second World War were welcomed to the town this week. The Kindertransport scheme saw the United Kingdom take in nearly 10,000 children of mostly Jewish origin from Germany in the nine months
- [RUTH LEON RECOMMENDS… LENORE PIANO TRIO – WIGMORE HALL](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/ruth-leon-recommends-lenore-piano-trio-wigmore-hall/) - Lenore Piano Trio – Wigmore Hall Click here for tickets (£20 each) ​The Kindertransport was a unique humanitarian rescue programme which ran between November 1938 and September 1939. Approximately 10,000 children, the majority of whom were Jewish, were sent from their homes and families in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. A prime mover
- [RVCC Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies to Hold Virtual Summer Book Series](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/rvcc-institute-of-holocaust-and-genocide-studies-to-hold-virtual-summer-book-series/) - The Raritan Valley Community College Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies will present a virtual Summer Book Series beginning in June. The series, which is free of charge and open to the public, will begin June 14, 2024 with author Lilly Maier. The segments will be held via Zoom webinars and registration is required. The following
- [Kindertransport tale of friends reunited 85 years later](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/kindertransport-tale-of-friends-reunited-85-years-later/) - When Daisy Holzapfel arrived at her new school in 1939, she had just left her whole life behind. The 14-year-old was one 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children who fled Nazi Europe on what became known as the Kindertransport. The headteacher of the Dorchester school asked local girl Louise to help the newcomer settle in - and the pair became firm friends. In later interviews Daisy
- [Kindertransport families mark 85th anniversary with trip to England](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/kindertransport-families-mark-85th-anniversary-with-trip-to-england/) - On May 12, 43 Kindertransport survivor families from across the United States, ages 92 years to six months, will meet in London. They will spend five days in England honoring their forebears, who made the unimaginable choice, 85 years ago, before the outbreak of World War II, to send their children away to safety. These
- [Learn About the Heroic Rescue Effort that Saved Thousands of Children During the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/learn-about-the-heroic-rescue-effort-that-saved-thousands-of-children-during-the-holocaust/) - Illinois Holocaust Museum’s special exhibition, Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, will run from May 19 – November 17, 2024. As the situation worsened in Nazi Germany, parents were faced with a difficult decision: send their children alone to a foreign land in the hopes of finding a better life or keep
- [Q & A with Adam Gidwitz](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/q-a-with-adam-gidwitz/) - Adam Gidwitz, author of the Newbery Honor Book The Inquisitor’s Tale, dives back into historical fiction via Max in the House of Spies, a fantastical middle grade spy novel and the first in a duology. In 1939, German Jewish 11-year-old Max doesn’t want to board the Kindertransport and leave his family behind for England, but his
- [The Representation of Kindertransport in 'One Life'](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/the-representation-of-kindertransport-in-one-life/) - For more information regarding this event, please email priti.mishra@soton.ac.uk . Event details The Parkes Institute and the Department of History invite you to a special roundtable event around the representation of Kindertransport in the film 'One Life'. One Life, which was given its public release on 1 January 2024, is a feature film starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena
- [Jewish Labour peer and former refugee Lord Dubs fights back tears as he praises film about Kindertransport hero who brought him to Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2024/02/jewish-labour-peer-and-former-refugee-lord-dubs-fights-back-tears-as-he-praises-film-about-kindertransport-hero-who-brought-him-to-britain/) - A Labour peer who fled to Britain on the Kindertransport scheme during the Second World War fought back tears as he made an emotional address to Parliament to commemorate the Holocaust. Lord Dubs became emotional as he recalled his experience of travelling to the UK from Czechoslovakia aged six. While remembering Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued hundreds of children
- [Poignant holocaust memorial service held at Lowestoft rail station](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/poignant-holocaust-memorial-service-held-at-lowestoft-rail-station/) - A town fell silent as dozens of people turned out to remember others during a poignant service. People turned out to pay respects on Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 in Lowestoft. Picture: Mick Howes (Image: Mick Howes) Near to where hundreds of young Jewish refugees had arrived in 1938, the people of Lowestoft gathered during a special ceremony to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The annual service
- [The Pianist of Willesden Lane](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/the-pianist-of-willesden-lane/) - Acclaimed pianist Mona Golabek is the daughter of Viennese pianist Lisa Jura, whose life was thrown into turmoil in the late 1930s by the spread of fascism in Europe. Golabek has kept her mother’s legacy alive by recounting her story — first in a book called The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir
- ['Courage, faith and survival': 97-year-old Holocaust survivor to speak in Folsom, California](https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/97-year-old-holocaust-survivor-margot-goldberg-speaks-folsom/103-2df5e25e-a880-40ed-a7c1-9e22ae69bc61) - Margot Goldberg’s home was invaded and her father arrested and sent to a concentration camp in 1938. Now, she tells her story of survival. FOLSOM, Calif. — A 97-year-old Holocaust survivor will speak Thursday in Folsom. Margot Goldberg will speak about her experiences as Nazis rose and took power in Germany through the 1930s and
- [Harwich exhibition on Leslie Brent’s Kindertransport journey](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/harwich-exhibition-on-leslie-brents-kindertransport-journey/) - A SPECIAL week-long exhibition in Harwich will honour Leslie Brent who was rescued as part of the Kindertransport scheme before making a life for himself in Britain. The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust (HKMLT) will present the ‘Safe Haven – Leslie Brent’ exhibition starting on Wednesday, January, 24 at the Harwich Arts & Heritage Centre.
- [BBC is facing furious backlash after omitting the word 'Jewish' from promotional material for film telling the story of WWII hero Sir Nicholas Winton who saved kindertransport children from the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/bbc-is-facing-furious-backlash-after-omitting-the-word-jewish-from-promotional-material-for-film-telling-the-story-of-wwii-hero-sir-nicholas-winton-who-saved-kindertransport-children-from-the-nazi/) - The BBC is facing furious backlash after omitting the word 'Jewish' from promotional material for a film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins about WWII hero Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved children from the Nazis with the kindertransport scheme. The new film, One Life, tells the story of Sir Nicholas' efforts to rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the expanding Nazi invasion across
- [OPINION: Kindertransport legacy: Confronting antisemitism in today’s world](https://kindertransport.org/2024/01/opinion-kindertransport-legacy-confronting-antisemitism-in-todays-world/) - The decision to allow Jewish children into the UK took time, persuasion and campaigning. Despite all of that work, it was really the November pogrom, known as Kristallnacht, that served as a wake up call for the rest of the world, showing as it did that the anti-Jewish hate had reached a crescendo and that
- [‘The worst meeting I have ever had’: why a Kindertransport hero rejected a film about his life](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/the-worst-meeting-i-have-ever-had-why-a-kindertransport-hero-rejected-a-film-about-his-life/) - As One Life is released, producer says that Nicholas Winton – the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children – was reluctant for his story to be told Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis, was so modest that he rejected an initial proposal to make a film about him, according to
- ['I went from a life of luxury to a straw bed in Stoke-on-Trent'](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/i-went-from-a-life-of-luxury-to-a-straw-bed-in-stoke-on-trent/) - THE card is faded and yellowed with time, but the smile of the little girl in the black and white photograph is still bright. She was just three when it was taken, wearing her Sunday best, with her hair neatly parted and smoothed down in a wave. Beside the picture someone has written her name,
- [Humble hero who rescued 100s of children from Nazis haunted by the kids he couldn't save](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/humble-hero-who-rescued-100s-of-children-from-nazis-haunted-by-the-kids-he-couldnt-save/) - Sir Nicholas Winton never liked being called a hero, but to the hundreds of children whose lives he saved there is no better word. During the nine months leading up to the Second World War, the London stockbroker, known as Nicky, organised the rescue of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. In a race against time before the
- [Kindertransport remembered at Vienna ceremony marking 85th anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/kindertransport-remembered-at-vienna-ceremony-marking-85th-anniversary/) - The British-Austrian Jewish journalist Hella Pick, a Kindertransport child who arrived in Britain in March 1939, was the guest of honour at an event in Vienna to mark the 85th anniversary of the legendary railway rescue project. Ms Pick spent the war in the Lake District and went on to have a distinguished career in
- [Kindertransport: Saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/kindertransport-saving-jewish-children-from-nazi-germany/) - 85 years ago, 200 Jewish children arrived in Great Britain from Germany. It was the first of many so-called Kindertransport rescue missions. The children were brought out of Nazi Germany to safety. Until September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany attacked Poland and World War II started, around 10,000 minors were saved that way. But for
- [Kindertransport refugees mark 85th anniversary of rescue from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/kindertransport-refugees-mark-85th-anniversary-of-rescue-from-nazis/) - Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has told Kindertransport refugees that they are a source of “inspiration” at a time of rising anti-Semitism, as they gathered to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the rescue operation. A ceremony was held to mark the occasion on Sunday afternoon at Liverpool Street station in London, where many of the child refugees arrived in
- [85 years on, child refugees set out to keep history alive](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/85-years-on-child-refugees-set-out-to-keep-history-alive/) - At the end of 1938 Hilde Auerbach faced an invidious choice. The Gestapo had arrested her husband in the midst of the Kristallnacht pogrom, taking him to the Dachau concentration camp. She and the rest of the family had found temporary shelter in Berlin after fleeing from their farm in Austria, hiding in a cart
- [The story of a kindertransport survivor, a surprising friendship and happy coincidences](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/the-story-of-a-kindertransport-survivor-a-surprising-friendship-and-happy-coincidences/) - Arthur Kern wanted to see his family’s old apartment in Vienna, Austria, where he and his family lived before his parents helped him escape on the kindertransport, an act that ultimately saved his life. The organized rescue effort mainly took Jewish children from Nazi-controlled territory to the United Kingdom during a nine-month period between 1938
- [Jane and Ros Merkin stage a unique play in memory of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/jane-and-ros-merkin-stage-a-unique-play-in-memory-of-the-kindertransport/) - Sisters Jane and Ros Merkin have teamed up to produce a play to mark the 70th anniversary of the Kindertransport. The performance, Suitcase, focuses on the moment when the Kinder arrived at Liverpool Street, following Parliament's decision to admit 10,000, mainly Jewish, children as refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. Jane, 46, a freelance producer, and Ros,
- [Kindertransport refugee who escaped Nazis during WWI meets Ukrainian exiles in UK](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/kindertransport-refugee-who-escaped-nazis-during-wwi-meets-ukrainian-exiles-in-uk/) - Nataliia Nahornya (left) with Renate Beigel and daughter Yevheniia It was a truly moving moment as the two strangers tearfully embraced, united by an extraordinary bond. Because both women are war refugees who fled to Britain – from conflicts fought more than 80 years apart. One is 90-year-old Renate Beigel, an Austrian Jew sent to
- [The Kindertransport changed so many lives, but it had its failings](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/the-kindertransport-changed-so-many-lives-but-it-had-its-failings/) - King Charles visits the Kindertransport - The Final Parting Memorial at the Dammtor railway station in Hamburg (Photo by RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images) Eighty five years ago the British public woke up to the news of the November Pogrom — Kristallnacht — in the German Reich. Newspapers reported that on 9 and 10 November
- [The Unsung Hero Who Saved Thousands of Children During the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/the-unsung-hero-who-saved-thousands-of-children-during-the-holocaust/) - In 1997, musician Miriam Keesing came across photos of a boy she didn’t recognize while sorting through the attic of her late father’s home in Castricum, a seaside village just outside of Amsterdam. When Keesing asked her aunt who the boy was, she replied, “Oh, that’s Uli. He was a refugee child. He lived with us for
- [Kindertransport refugees retrace historic journey from Germany to UK](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/kindertransport-refugees-retrace-historic-journey-from-germany-to-uk/) - Walter Bingham, who turns 100 years old in January, witnessed the burning of books in 1933 and still remembers the events of Kristallnacht. He saw the destruction of Jewish synagogues and businesses in his home city of Karlsruhe, Germany, and his father, who had a business of printing train timetables, was arrested and sent to Warsaw.
- [King Charles enjoys affectionate moment with refugees who fled Nazis as children on WW2 Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/king-charles-enjoys-affectionate-moment-with-refugees-who-fled-nazis-as-children-on-ww2-kindertransport/) - King Charles III enjoyed a sweet moment with Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution as children via the British Kindertransport rescue mission as he visited a synagogue in London today. Security is likely to have been very tight at the Central United Synagogue in the West End as the 74-year-old monarch marked the operation's 85th anniversary. Charles met
- [Holocaust survivor George Shefi retraces escape 85 years on](https://kindertransport.org/2023/11/holocaust-survivor-george-shefi-retraces-escape-85-years-on/) - A crowd of 50 or 60 people jeer as a Jewish shopkeeper tries to scrub antisemitic graffiti off the pavement. Hats and broken glass are strewn all over the road in front of a destroyed Jewish-owned hat shop. This is what six-year-old George Shefi sees outside his Berlin apartment building after the Nazi pogroms of
- [You Need to Know About This Jewish Lesbian Activist and Holocaust Survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2023/10/you-need-to-know-about-this-jewish-lesbian-activist-and-holocaust-survivor/) - Eva was born on Aug. 17, 1925 in Vienna to (what she described in the Smith College Voices of Feminism Oral History Project in 2004) as “a rather typical bourgeois Jewish Austrian” family. Her mother Margarete was a poet, translator and “very creative woman,” and her father Otto was an architect who built several apartment buildings in
- [Celebrating the Kindertransport refugee who dressed Britain's Jewish brides](https://kindertransport.org/2023/10/celebrating-the-kindertransport-refugee-who-dressed-britains-jewish-brides/) - Nettie (Natalie) Spiegel, whose couture label Neymar dressed generations of Jewish brides, and is celebrated in the Museum of London Dockland’s new Exhibition, Fashion City, How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style. The exhibition, which opens today, features one of Neymar’s exquisitely beaded wedding dresses, which can still command upwards of £3,000 on vintage fashion sites.
- [Kindertransport-inspired lessons expand to Western Australia](https://kindertransport.org/2023/10/kindertransport-inspired-lessons-expand-to-western-australia/) - Jill Rabinowitz running an In My Pocket project workshop at South Perth Primary School. The In My Pocket Project, based on the autobiography of the late Dorrith Sim (nee Oppenheim) – a Jewish German girl saved by the Kindertransport in 1939 and adopted by a Scottish family – reached a new milestone last month when
- [Kindertransport: Birmingham plaque honours Holocaust hero](https://kindertransport.org/2023/09/kindertransport-birmingham-plaque-honours-holocaust-hero/) - A plaque has been unveiled in honour of a woman who helped save hundreds of children from the Holocaust. Bertha Bracey aided relief operations in Germany and the Netherlands before and after World War Two. A founder of the Kindertransport, she helped rescue thousands of Nazi victims and lone children between 1933-1948. The plaque was
- [Anthony Hopkins Plays a Holocaust Hero in Upcoming Movie About Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2023/09/anthony-hopkins-plays-a-holocaust-hero-in-upcoming-movie-about-kindertransport/) - The story of Winton and the Kindertransport will be the subject of the upcoming film “One Life,” coming out on January 1, 2024, in which Anthony Hopkins plays an older Nicholas Winton, and that iconic moment of TV gets reenacted by Jewish actress Samantha Spiro. It looks like Hopkins, who most recently played a Jewish-Ukrainian grandfather
- [Sir Anthony Hopkins to play man who saved 669 children](https://kindertransport.org/2023/08/sir-anthony-hopkins-to-play-man-who-saved-669-children/) - For the millions watching at home it was an unforgettable In February 1988 on BBC's That's Life! a man called Nicholas Winton came face-to-face with some of the 669 Jewish children he had saved from the Nazis prior to World War Two. A surprise reunion, it brought to light a remarkable story - one which has now
- [KINDER, Inspired by Czech Kindertransport, Will Embark on UK Tour This Autumn](https://kindertransport.org/2023/08/kinder-inspired-by-czech-kindertransport-will-embark-on-uk-tour-this-autumn/) - Inspired by real-life events, the joyful and poignant Kinder heads on tour this autumn. Telling the story of one small girl who embarks on a mighty adventure, the multiple award-winning Kinder tells the story of the Czech Kindertransport, which evacuated Czech-Jewish children to Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Young heroine Babi crosses
- [Composer Carl Davis](https://kindertransport.org/2023/08/composer-carl-davis/) - The KTA mourns the death of Carl Davis. A brilliant composer of music for films (including The French Lieutenant's Woman, directed by Kind Karel Reisz), he wrote 'Last Train to Tomorrow' a Kindertransport piece for children's chorus that the KTA, The New School & Mannes College of Music premiered in NYC in 2019 as part
- [Revisiting the Kindertransport: Kindness Amidst Separation and Horror](https://kindertransport.org/2023/08/revisiting-the-kindertransport-kindness-amidst-separation-and-horror/) - Nearly 85 years have passed since the first Kindertransport from Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite abundant documentation that England’s accepted approximately 10,000 Jewish children, the stories of refugees’ travails and how their lives evolved are not nearly as well known. Kindertransport children contributed greatly to their adopted homeland and to society at large, despite traumatic separation from their families,
- [Dame Esther Rantzen: 'Nicolas Winton film moved me to tears'](https://kindertransport.org/2023/07/dame-esther-rantzen-nicolas-winton-film-moved-me-to-tears/) - Dame Esther Rantzen has said a new film about “British Schindler” Nicholas Winton moved her to tears. The television presenter, who recently revealed that she had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, brought the Jewish stockbroker’s remarkable story to light in 1988. Forty nine years earlier, Winton had abandoned a planned skiing holiday to travel
- [Meet the 200 Kindertransport children who found refuge in a Welsh castle](https://kindertransport.org/2023/07/meet-the-200-kindertransport-children-who-found-refuge-in-a-welsh-castle/) - Between 1939 and 1941, more than 200 Kindertransport children escaped war-torn Europe to Gwrych Castle in north Wales. There, the people looking after the youngsters developed a successful hachshara — an agricultural training scheme — for them. While Kindertransport has been well researched, the focus has been very much on individual experiences. By contrast, training
- [First pictures of Nicholas Winton film with Anthony Hopkins as 'British Schindler'](https://kindertransport.org/2023/07/first-pictures-of-nicholas-winton-film-with-anthony-hopkins-as-british-schindler/) - The moment Nicholas Winton comes face to face with just a few of the Jewish children he saved from the Nazis on That’s Life, in 1988, is one of the most iconic clips in British television history. Now the first photographs from an eagerly awaited film about the story leading up to that
- [Tech developed by refugee who fled Nazis to UK used today by NASA on Mars](https://kindertransport.org/2023/07/tech-developed-by-refugee-who-fled-nazis-to-uk-used-today-by-nasa-on-mars/) - Family of Jewish physicist Benjamin Abeles, who was on a Kindertransport as a teen and became an activist to help refugees in his 80s, donates archive to University of Southampton Ben Abeles, photographed in 2008 in front of the Kindertransport memorial at the Liverpool Street station in London, where the children arrived after boarding the
- [Holocaust survivor turned British army heroine finally receives war medals on 100th birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/holocaust-survivor-turned-british-army-heroine-finally-receives-war-medals-on-100th-birthday/) - Henny Franks with AJEX Chair Dan Fox Pic: James Manning/PA Wire/PA Images A Holocaust survivor turned Second World War British army stalwart has received medals for her wartime service to Britain to mark her 100th birthday. Henny Franks was handed the Defence Medal and HM Armed Forces Veteran Badge on Wednesday at a party
- [JEC Middle School Remembers](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/jec-middle-school-remembers/) - The importance of learning about the Holocaust cannot be overestimated, especially for Jewish students. With this in mind, the middle school students at the JEC have spent the past few weeks learning about different aspects of the Holocaust, taking a unique approach to this important, yet often difficult topic. Each grade in the middle school
- [Harwich to host refugee week event after installation of memorial](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/harwich-to-host-refugee-week-event-after-installation-of-memorial/) - A SPECIAL refugee week event will take place in Harwich for the first time following the installation of the town’s Kindertransport memorial. The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust said it will be holding a Refugee Week event for the first time in memory of the thousands of Jewish children who arrived in Harwich alone
- [Jayne Stevens Directs Kindertransport in Oregon](https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/jayne-stevens-directs-kindertransport-in-oregon/) - Kindertransport is a play written by Diane Samuels that tells the story of the evacuation of Jewish children from Germany to England during World War II. The play focuses on the experiences of Evelyn, a young Jewish girl who is sent to England by her parents to escape the Nazi regime. The play explores themes
- [Fascinating Archive Revolutionises Space Exploration: From Fleeing Hitler to Southampton](https://kindertransport.org/2023/05/fascinating-archive-revolutionises-space-exploration-from-fleeing-hitler-to-southampton/) - The life story of a teenager who fled Nazi persecution on the Kindertransport and went on to become a world-renowned physicist is told through his archive, on show for the first time at the University of Southampton. Photos, letters and documents that belonged to Ben Abeles make up the unique and fascinating collection. The archive
- [Clackamas Community College presents “Kindertransport” May 24-June 4](https://kindertransport.org/2023/05/clackamas-community-college-presents-kindertransport-may-24-june-4/) - Just before the outbreak of World War II, Britain took in over 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children from Europe. The rescue effort was known as “Kindertransport.” Separated from their families and fostered out to British homes, most of the children never saw their parents again. Diane Samuels’ extraordinary play is about this emergency immigration and
- [Long Island Teen Connects With His Roots, Meets Holocaust Survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2023/04/long-island-teen-connects-with-his-roots-meets-holocaust-survivor/) - PLAINVIEW, NY — Amid an unsettling time for Jews as acts of anti-Semitism are surging, the United Jewish Appeal paired dozens of Long Island teens with Holocaust survivors. Due to the lack of remaining eyes from this vital part of world history, each survivor was grouped with a dozen or so students for the Witness Project. One of the teens, Henry Kettner,
- [Holocaust survivor shares her story of courage, resilience](https://kindertransport.org/2023/04/holocaust-survivor-shares-her-story-of-courage-resilience/) - A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor and military nurse shared her story during a Holocaust Days of Remembrance observance at Brooke Army Medical Center, April 17, 2023. Unable to attend in person, Hannah Deutch virtually spoke to a packed auditorium from her nursing home in New York. Softly speaking in a German accent, Deutch described the terrible
- [100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Recounts Childhood in Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2023/04/100-year-old-holocaust-survivor-recounts-childhood-in-nazi-germany/) - To mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Adopt-A-Savta organization, an Israeli NGO that pairs elderly Holocaust survivors with young people, invited 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Walter Bingham to address English speakers in the Tel Aviv area at a local synagogue. After a special ceremony in memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, Bingham,
- [THE KINDERTRANSPORTS: THE KTA, THE 80TH YEAR COMMEMORATIVE JOURNEY, AND NEW RESEARCH](https://kindertransport.org/2023/03/the-kindertransports-the-kta-the-80th-year-commemorative-journey-and-new-research/) - Speakers: Melissa Hacker, Wendy Henry, and Dr. Amy Williams From December 1st, 1938, through September 1st, 1939, nearly 10,000 mostly 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
- [Holocaust survivor’s story told in migration exhibit on display in Columbus](https://kindertransport.org/2023/03/holocaust-survivors-story-told-in-migration-exhibit-on-display-in-columbus/) - Cleveland resident Beth Darmstadter provided opening remarks March 9 at the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s showing of an exhibit that included her Holocaust survivor father Joel Darmstadter’s journey to safety as part of the Kindertransport or children’s transport where 10,000 Jewish children’s lives were saved by being transported to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany. His
- [OPINION - My Austrian passport is for the dog; the UK gave refuge to my family](https://kindertransport.org/2023/03/opinion-my-austrian-passport-is-for-the-dog-the-uk-gave-refuge-to-my-family/) - A few days ago, I became Austrian. This wasn’t a total surprise — I’d applied for citizenship soon after their government amended the law to enable the descendants of those fleeing Nazi persecution to do so. To be clear, I retain views on making my grandparents stateless but I had been looking forward to acquiring an EU pet passport for my
- [The Kindertransport refugee who is still writing books at 94](https://kindertransport.org/2023/03/the-kindertransport-refugee-who-is-still-writing-books-at-94/) - W hen dining with Lore Segal, it might be wise to watch your words. The Austrian-born writer subscribes to Nora Ephron’s adage that everything is copy. That’s especially true for her encounters with her circle of close female friends, which over the years have been rendered into fiction via her Ladies Lunch series. The stories,
- [Vienna’s UK embassy honours diplomats and clergy who saved Jews from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2023/03/viennas-uk-embassy-honours-diplomats-and-clergy-who-saved-jews-from-nazis/) - The UK ambassador recently discovered her own grandmother escaped on the Kindertransport A plaque honouring the memory of British officials and Anglican clergy who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis was unveiled at the British embassy in Vienna. The ceremony was led by Lord Pickles, the government’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues and co-chair
- [Bradford’s Kindertransport hostel was sanctuary in the war](https://kindertransport.org/2023/02/bradfords-kindertransport-hostel-was-sanctuary-in-the-war/) - ARRIVING at the docks in Dover in late 1938, the children from the Kindertransport tried to be brave. They had no idea where they would be going. No idea who would look after them. Some children were collected by relatives. Others sat waiting. They had no family to greet them. “Be polite to whoever looks
- [BBC series tells the story of Tyneside’s Holocaust refugee house for girls](https://kindertransport.org/2023/02/bbc-series-tells-the-story-of-tynesides-holocaust-refugee-house-for-girls/) - A BBC Sounds series narrated by Desert Island Discs presenter Lauren Laverne tells the remarkable and previously unknown story of how more than 20 young girls were rescued from Nazi persecution and brought to the small town of Tynemouth, east of Newcastle, and supported by the small local Jewish community. In a nondescript terraced house
- [Holocaust memorial service held at new statue in Harwich](https://kindertransport.org/2023/02/holocaust-memorial-service-held-at-new-statue-in-harwich/) - A SPECIAL Holocaust memorial service was held in Harwich for the first time following the unveiling of Harwich’s Kindertransport memorial. Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated every year on January 27 to honour the six million victims of the Holocaust. The date is the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. Following
- [Lowestoft: Kindertransport arrival at town's railway station marked](https://kindertransport.org/2023/02/lowestoft-kindertransport-arrival-at-towns-railway-station-marked/) - A new history panel recounting the 1938 Kindertransport arrival in a coastal town has been unveiled during a special ceremony. The giant interpretation panel was unveiled at Lowestoft rail station - close to where hundreds of young Jewish refugees had arrived in December 1938. And as people from the community gathered to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at the station
- [Legacy and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2023/02/legacy-and-the-kindertransport/) - One of the most moving stories of rescue during the Holocaust is the Kindertransport, the British-led effort to that transported 10,000 Jewish children to safety in the U.K. Today, Kindertransport refugees and their descendants share a legacy of survival, resilience, and responsibility. Join USC Shoah Foundation on February 16 for this unique webinar that will
- [Coalville CAN hosts 'evening you will never forget' with Holocaust survivor Ruth next month](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/coalville-can-hosts-evening-you-will-never-forget-with-holocaust-survivor-ruth-next-month/) - Coalville CAN is hosting what it describes as an unforgettable evening next month at its Memorial Square venue. An Evening With Ruth Shwiening - a Holocaust survivor - takes place on February 8 at 6pm. It is a story of survival of the holocaust, Ruth's journey on the Kindertransport and how it inspired her art
- [Poignant memorial service held at Lowestoft rail station](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/poignant-memorial-service-held-at-lowestoft-rail-station/) - Scores of people turned out as a town fell silent in remembering others during a poignant service of remembrance. Close to the spot where hundreds of young Jewish refugees had arrived in 1938, the people of Lowestoft gathered during a special ceremony to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
- ["I will never forget the refugee we took in from the Nazis"](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/i-will-never-forget-the-refugee-we-took-in-from-the-nazis/) - On Holocaust Memorial Day, Ann Chadwick, 85, shares the story of how a little Jewish girl came to be a beloved part of her family My earliest memory of Suzie Spitzer, the Austrian Jewish girl who became my sister, is of us fighting. We fought like tigers. She had very sharp elbows, was bigger than
- [Antisemitism rising because of a lack of Holocaust education, survivor says](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/antisemitism-rising-because-of-a-lack-of-holocaust-education-survivor-says/) - A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor said antisemitism is on the rise because young people are not learning about the Holocaust as much anymore. Vera Schaufeld came to England via the Kindertransport, a movement that was set up to evacuate Jewish children from Germany in the wake of Kristallnacht – a night of Nazi-coordinated violence in November 1938 which resulted in
- [Tickets for Eva at The Rockwell Centre now on sale](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/tickets-for-eva-at-the-rockwell-centre-now-on-sale/) - A SHOW based on the story of a German Jewish woman who started a new life in Britain after World War Two is coming to Bradford next month. Eva, which uses theatre and poetry to explore themes of displacement, isolation and immigration, is coming to The Rockwell Centre in Thorpe Edge on Sunday, February 12. Written by Nicki Davy and
- [Concert documentary to take place at University of Lincoln to mark Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/concert-documentary-to-take-place-at-university-of-lincoln-to-mark-holocaust-memorial-day/) - A special concert documentary will take place at the University of Lincoln on Friday 27 January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The event is called Kindertransport, which means “children’s transport” in German and refers to the rescue of thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War. The event is
- [Holocaust survivor to tell her story in Poole for memorial day event](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/holocaust-survivor-to-tell-her-story-in-poole-for-memorial-day-event/) - A HOLOCAUST survivor will share her story as an annual memorial event returns to being held in-person. An event for Holocaust Memorial Day, hosted by the Bournemouth and Poole Holocaust Memorial Committee, will be held at Poole’s Lighthouse on Sunday, January 29. Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE will be the event’s main speaker and will share her story
- [Holocaust service to be held at new Kindertransport statue in Harwich](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/holocaust-service-to-be-held-at-new-kindertransport-statue-in-harwich/) - A SPECIAL Holocaust memorial service will take place in Harwich for the first time following the unveiling of Harwich’s Kindertransport memorial. Following the unveiling of the Kindertransport memorial at Harwich Quay last year, Harwich Town Council said the site would be a fitting focal point for Holocaust Memorial Day. Harwich mayor Ivan Henderson said: “The
- [Lowestoft: Holocaust memorial ceremony and new bench to be unveiled](https://kindertransport.org/2023/01/lowestoft-holocaust-memorial-ceremony-and-new-bench-to-be-unveiled/) - Wreaths are due to be laid as a ceremony commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day will be held in Lowestoft. At the spot where hundreds of young Jewish refugees arrived in 1938, a special service of remembrance will take place on Friday, January 27 as Lowestoft rail station hosts a special ceremony. Everyone is welcome to attend the service of reflection,
- [Man honoured for Holocaust education says Kristallnacht saved his life](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/man-honoured-for-holocaust-education-says-kristallnacht-saved-his-life/) - 92-year old Michael Brown arrived just days before war was declared and worked with Holocaust Educational Trust to tell his story Kristallnacht was a wave of Nazi-coordinated violence against Jews across Germany in November 1938 that is so called because of the debris left from the destruction of Jewish properties and synagogues. As a result
- [Kindertransport bench tells children’s testimonies](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/kindertransport-bench-tells-childrens-testimonies/) - A TALKING bench that plays the testimonies of Kindertransport children has been unveiled in Harwich. The bench has been installed by the Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust in the Mayor’s Garden off Main Road. It includes stories told by those who were evacuated from Nazi occupied Europe to safety in Britain. The humanitarian rescue
- [Concern over missing Kindertransport memorial](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/concern-over-missing-kindertransport-memorial/) - Iconic bronze Frank Meisler statue, similar to one at Liverpool Street Station, was meant to be removed from Gdańsk station for two months but is still absent four years later. Concerns are mounting for a cherished Kindertransport memorial missing for almost four years from outside a train station where 124 children were given safe passage
- [Grandmother’s Holocaust years detailed in journal](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/grandmothers-holocaust-years-detailed-in-journal/) - The anti-Semitism that fanned the flames of the Holocaust is "still here -- I feel like you see it more and more every day," said Courtney Doi, which is one of the reasons she said she is so intent on telling the story of her grandmother, Judith Klein, and her family. "I am the chosen
- [Jewish propaganda, antisemitism & white supremacists on the rise](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/jewish-propaganda-antisemitism-white-supremacists-on-the-rise/) - For many in Texas, it's a hard pill to swallow. Antisemitism and white supremacy is seeing an increase and is a reality to many in the Lonestar State. "We've lived a long life, we see it every day," said Holocaust survivor Bert Romberg. Bert Romberg and his sister Magie Furst were part of the kindertransport
- [St Andrews honour: The remarkable story of Lord Alf Dubs’ escape to the UK from Nazi horror](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/st-andrews-honour-the-remarkable-story-of-lord-alf-dubs-escape-to-the-uk-from-nazi-horror/) - Michael Alexander speaks to Lord Alf Dubs – a child refugee who fled the Nazis before World War Two, becoming an MP, CEO of a refugee charity and member of the House of Lords – and who has now been honoured by St Andrews University. He is the Labour peer who fled the Nazi occupation
- [Journey to a New World: Edith Maniker’s Life After the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/journey-to-a-new-world-edith-manikers-life-after-the-kindertransport/) - Today marks the 84th anniversary of the Kindertransport, the rescue operation that beginning in 1938 helped nearly 10,000 Jewish children escape to the United Kingdom from Germany and Nazi-controlled territory in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. A young Edith Grunbaum was among the children ferried to safety. She told her story to USC Shoah Foundation in 1998
- [Anita Weisbord](https://kindertransport.org/2022/12/anita-weisbord/) - As we remember December 2, 1938, the day that the first Kindertransport arrived safely to Harwich, England, and the day that KT2 David Meyerhoff named World Kindertransport Day, we think of Kindertransport Survivor Anita Weisbord from Vienna, who has died this week at 99 years. A committed educator, she shared her story widely. This short
- [Wales hospitality to refugees fleeing the Nazis remembered](https://kindertransport.org/2022/11/wales-hospitality-to-refugees-fleeing-the-nazis-remembered/) - An exhibition tracing the history of refugees in Wales, from those fleeing the Nazis in 1930s up to the present day, is going on display next week. Refugees from National Socialism in Wales: Learning from the past for the future will be on display at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from 10 November to 29 January, after
- [How a Kindertransport Saved and Shaped My Mother-in-Law’s Life](https://kindertransport.org/2022/11/how-a-kindertransport-saved-and-shaped-my-mother-in-laws-life/) - Watching Ukrainian women and children flee Putin’s death machine as men remain to fight evokes a heart-rending image from my family narrative 84 years ago. In 1939, my wife’s maternal grandparents parted from their beloved daughters, Gertrud, 8, and Erika, 10, at the railroad station in Graz, Austria. The girls boarded a kindertransport (transport for children) to
- [Stockton endowed scholarship honors local Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2022/10/stockton-endowed-scholarship-honors-local-holocaust-survivor/) - GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – For most of her life, not many people knew that Ruth Kessler was a survivor of the Holocaust. “I was the only one who knew her Holocaust story,” her daughter Michele Taroff said. “She never talked about it. My brothers never knew.” And Kessler continued to keep mostly quiet about her experience
- [Bringing the short film Night Of The Broken to life](https://kindertransport.org/2022/10/bringing-the-short-film-night-of-the-broken-to-life/) - One tiny beacon of hope that emerged during [the World War II] period was the Kindertransport, a train service that took Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution, and rehomed them predominantly in British homes that had been volunteered by British families. These poor frightened children were separated from their parents and travelled alone, some just babies,
- [Kindertransport: Story of Second World War rescue effort comes to Ledbury theatre](https://kindertransport.org/2022/10/kindertransport-story-of-second-world-war-rescue-effort-comes-to-ledbury-theatre/) - The story of an organised rescue effort to save children from Nazi occupation is coming to Ledbury this month. Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society, known as LADS, will be performing Kinderstransport from Thursday, October 20 to Saturday, October 22 at the Market Theatre. In the play, nine-year-old Eva ends up in Manchester and when her parents
- [Theatre Department kicks off its 2022-2023 season with Diane Samuel’s "Kindertransport"](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/theatre-department-kicks-off-its-2022-2023-season-with-diane-samuels-kindertransport/) - UNCW’s Theatre Department kicks off its 2022-2023 season with Diane Samuel’s Kindertransport. The production looks at the life of a young child who is forced to leave Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with a foster family in Britain, uncertain of what her future will hold. Director, Dr. Charles Grimes, says as we read news stories
- [Kind Ilse Melamid speaks on PBS panel: NO LONGER UNIMAGINABLE: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivors. ](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/3906/) - KTA Board member Kindertransportee Ilse was brilliant, highlighting the work of the Quakers and the importance of hearing refugee’s stories on the panel: NO LONGER UNIMAGINABLE: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivors. To watch: https://bit.ly/PBSTalk
- [Barbara Winton](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/barbara-winton/) - The KTA mourns the death of Barbara Winton. Dear friend, staunch advocate for refugees today, writer, founder of the Sir Nicholas Winton Trust to support her father's legacy, work and spirit. She will be deeply missed. To quote her twitter bio "pessimistic optimist, previously optimistic pessimist. Supporting today's refugees while talking about yesterday's - Kindertransport
- [Queen Elizabeth](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/queen-elizabeth/) - On the eve of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the KTA remembers the generous people of the UK who opened their homes, schools, hostels, farms to homeless Kindertransport children. We invite KTA members to submit their memories, thoughts and stories of Queen Elizabeth and Prince/King Charles for the Spring issue of the Kinderlink. One Kindertransportee
- [Kindertransport statue to mark WWII refugees' arrival in Harwich](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/kindertransport-statue-to-mark-wwii-refugees-arrival-in-harwich/) - A memorial has been unveiled to mark the arrival of 10,000 children to the UK who sought safety from Nazi Germany before the start of World War Two. The bronze statue by artist Ian Wolter has gone up at Harwich quayside. The first children arrived at the Essex port on 2 December 1938, with some taken to
- [One Life films in Prague and UK with Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/one-life-films-in-prague-and-uk-with-anthony-hopkins-and-johnny-flynn/) - Production is underway on the biopic, One Life, which tells the story of Nicholas Winton and the Czech Kindertransport.
- [KINDERTRANSPORT at the Adelson Theatre This November](https://kindertransport.org/2022/09/kindertransport-at-the-adelson-theatre-this-november/) - Celebrated theatre artist, Jeanmarie Simpson, known for her beautifully innovative stagings of Shakespeare, contemporary plays, adaptations, and her own original works, is set to begin rehearsals September 6th in Las Vegas for a November 3rd opening.
- [Trevor Chadwick: Statue of 'Purbeck Schindler' put up in Swanage](https://kindertransport.org/2022/08/trevor-chadwick-statue-of-purbeck-schindler-put-up-in-swanage/) - A statue has been erected of a British war hero compared with Oskar Schindler for his efforts to save hundreds of children destined for Nazi death camps. Trevor Chadwick helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 youngsters from Czechoslovakia ahead of World War Two. He was dubbed the "Purbeck Schindler" in reference to him being from Purbeck in
- [Kindertransport at South London Theatre](https://kindertransport.org/2022/08/kindertransport-at-south-london-theatre/) - Every child who came over as part of the Kindertransport initiative had a story to tell and in Diane Samuel’s 1993 play Kindertransport we’re told the story of Eva Schlesinger who’s taken in by Lil and moved to Manchester unable to speak the language of her new country of residence and confused by why she was sent
- [Kindertransport: A Journey to Life](https://kindertransport.org/2022/07/kindertransport-a-journey-to-life/) - Kenneth Appel, grew up in Nazi Germany, was expelled from school when the Nazis rose to power, suffered at the hands of his former school friends, until he fled with the Kindertransport to Britain. Having arrived in Britain, he witnessed the London Blitz in 1940 and eventually put himself through university and began research at
- [The NS Poem: Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2022/07/the-ns-poem-kindertransport/) - A new poem by Craig Raine.
- [Alice Schick](https://kindertransport.org/2022/07/alice-schick/) - Lisl was born in Vienna, Austria, on December 20, 1927. In 1938, Lisl's parents made the difficult decision to put her and her brother Walter on the "Kindertransport" - a British rescue operation that saved 10,000 Jewish children. Despite a seven year separation, this decision saved their lives. After reuniting with her parents in NYC,
- [Local volunteer and Holocaust survivor Alice 'Lisl' Schick](https://kindertransport.org/2022/06/local-volunteer-and-holocaust-survivor-alice-lisl-schick/) - Schick's story begins when she was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1927 to Paul and Charlotte Porges, according to a news release. During the Nazis' occupation of Austria, her parents put Schick and her brother, Walter, on a rescue train called the Kindertransport. The rescue train offered refuge to almost 10,000 Jewish children ages seven to
- [Dr. Judith Grunfeld: The ‘Queen’ Who Was a Surrogate Mother to Many of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2022/06/dr-judith-grunfeld-the-queen-who-was-a-surrogate-mother-to-many-of-the-kindertransport/) - The British government had decided that if it entered the war, it would evacuate children from London (which was bound to be the target of enemy bombs) to the safety of the English countryside. Grunfeld knew how traumatic it would be for these children, who had recently been torn away from their parents. Many would
- [Kindertransport statue to mark refugees' arrival in Essex from Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2022/06/kindertransport-statue-to-mark-refugees-arrival-in-essex-from-germany/) - A memorial is being created for a UK port where thousands of children began arriving after they fled Nazi Germany before World War Two broke out. The Kindertransport to Harwich, Essex, started after the anti-Jewish violence of Kristallnacht in November 1938. The first children arrived by ferry at Harwich, on 2 December 1938, with some taken to
- [Plaque honours Gloucester couple who gave Jewish boys refuge](https://kindertransport.org/2022/06/plaque-honours-gloucester-couple-who-gave-jewish-boys-refuge/) - A plaque has been unveiled in tribute to a family who took in 10 Jewish boys fleeing the Nazis. Thousands of children escaped to the UK on what was known as the Kindertransport during the 1930s as Adolf Hitler rose in influence. Paul and Edith Arnstein cared for the boys at their home in Gloucester.
- [The 25 Best World War 2 Movies To Watch Right now](https://kindertransport.org/2022/06/the-25-best-world-war-2-movies-to-watch-right-now/) - Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) Several tales about world war ii concentrate on the war’s tragedies and depravity. “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport,” on either side, celebrates humanity’s love, charity, and steadfastness in several of history’s biggest catastrophes.
- [The surprising true origin of Paddington Bear](https://kindertransport.org/2022/06/the-surprising-true-origin-of-paddington-bear/) - This weekend, two British institutions — Queen Elizabeth and Paddington Bear — charmed the world in a surprise skit that kicked off the Platinum Party at the Palace tribute concert outside Buckingham Palace. But many viewers might not have known the real origins of the ursine celebrity who hails from “darkest Peru” — yet was
- [Former child of Kindertransport who became a judge](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/former-child-of-kindertransport-who-became-a-judge/) - Inge Goldrein never saw her father again after she was put on a train in Vienna - but her adoptive English parents encouraged her to study at a time when it was rare and she went all the way to become a judge
- [The Kindertransport in Literature: Reimagining Experience', is officially published and available to order](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/the-kindertransport-in-literature-reimagining-experience-is-officially-published-and-available-to-order/) - «In this insightful book, Stephanie Homer interrogates how different genre conventions influence the representation of the Kindertransport. Homer’s contribution to the study of the reception history of the Kindertransport is important and timely.» (Bill Niven, Professor of Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University) «An immensely valuable intervention into studies of Kindertransport representations, this book invites
- [BBC The Repair Shop viewers applaud 'brilliant' guest](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/bbc-the-repair-shop-viewers-applaud-brilliant-guest/) - The Repair Shop viewers have applauded a "brilliant" guest who had them in tears within minutes after sharing his family's experiences during the Holocaust. Gary Fischer brought in a Jewish prayer book to the shop experts, telling them, "it's falling apart." He hoped book-binder Christopher Shaw could help secure it and restore what could be
- [City of Cambridge Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/city-of-cambridge-annual-commemoration-of-the-holocaust/) - Recalling all who perished during the Holocaust, this year’s virtual program features music, greetings, and remarks from Eva Paddock, who survived the Holocaust by being sent on the "Kindertransport" from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to London at the age of 3. 
- [Don’t fall for myths about welcoming refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/dont-fall-for-myths-about-welcoming-refugees/) - The overwhelming support for Ukrainian refugees appears almost in defiance of the government’s delay in issuing visas. Rabbi Jonathan Romain, who launched his “Ukrainetransport” in March, says he has “stopped counting” after receiving offers from nearly 1,000 households to host families. But it begs the question: were British families always so welcoming to refugees? Did
- [Connections](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/connections/) - MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A few years ago an enterprising resident of the suburb where I live, just outside Jerusalem, initiated and organized an association providing social and cultural activities for the growing number of retired persons living here. In a recent class we talked about the Kindertransport, the acceptance by England of ten thousand
- [Holocaust survivor shares story of his escape to Scotland with school pupils](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/holocaust-survivor-shares-story-of-his-escape-to-scotland-with-school-pupils/) - A HOLOCAUST survivor returned to the train station where he first arrived in Scotland after escaping Nazi Germany to share his story with secondary school pupils. Henry Wuga, 98, joined Poppyscotland and Gathering the Voices to help launch new lessons for Scottish schools, based on his story and that of other young refugees during the
- [Story of Britain's Oskar Schindler told with puppets](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/story-of-britains-oskar-schindler-told-with-puppets/) - The tale of a Hampstead stockbroker, who helped to rescue 669 Czech children from Nazi persecution, has inspired books, documentaries, and soon a major film starring Anthony Hopkins. But before that, audiences can see Nicholas Winton's story told with puppets at Islington's Little Angel Theatre.
- [Harwich sculpture to commemorate Kindertransport children](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/harwich-sculpture-to-commemorate-kindertransport-children/) - PROGRESS is being made on a statue which will commemorate the thousands of children who arrived in Harwich from Europe while fleeing from the Nazis. Sculpted by award-winning Essex artist Ian Wolter, the statue is set to be unveiled on the Harwich quayside this autumn.
- [Jewish former child evacuees return to East Devon village they lived in during WW2](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/jewish-former-child-evacuees-return-to-east-devon-village-they-lived-in-during-ww2/) - Video showing a Kindertransport reunion.
- [Campaign to honour hero who enabled Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/campaign-to-honour-hero-who-enabled-nicholas-wintons-kindertransport/) - A fundraising campaign to honour an almost forgotten Holocaust hero has been launched in Swanage, near Bournemouth. The Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust, created two years ago, is unveiling a life-sized statue of the war-time teacher, who worked closely with Nicholas Winton in helping child refugees escape from the Nazis and come to Britain. Though Nicholas
- [Harwich sculpture to commemorate the Kindertransport rescue](https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/harwich-sculpture-to-commemorate-the-kindertransport-rescue/) - PROGRESS is being made on a statue which will commemorate the thousands of children who arrived in a historic port town as part of the Kindertransport. Sculpted by award-winning Essex artist Ian Wolter, the statue is set to be unveiled on the Harwich Quayside this autumn. The port of Harwich was the main point of
- [Blue plaque for Kindertransport home in Gloucester](https://kindertransport.org/2022/04/blue-plaque-for-kindertransport-home-in-gloucester/) - A Gloucester building that housed Jewish child refugees fleeing Nazi Germany is to be given a blue commemorative plaque, following a campaign by the son of one of those housed here. The unveiling will mark 82 years since the arrival of these children in Gloucestershire, but not the end of the plight of refugees. The former hostel
- [Anthony Hopkins’ bio-pic of ‘British Schindler’ seals his place in history](https://kindertransport.org/2022/04/anthony-hopkins-bio-pic-of-british-schindler-seals-his-place-in-history/) - Almost 30 years after Steven Spielberg brought the story of German Industrialist Oskar Schindler and his rescue of Jews to the big screen, a new biopic about the ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton is soon to start shooting in Prague. With a screenplay by Nick Drake and The Danish Girl’s Lucinda Coxon, One Life will show how the then Almost 30 years after Steven Spielberg brought the story of German Industrialist Oskar Schindler and his rescue of Jews to the big screen, a new biopic about the ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton is soon to start shooting in Prague. With a screenplay by Nick Drake and The Danish Girl’s Lucinda Coxon, One Life will show how the then
- [Play tells story of East Devon community’s kindness to wartime refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2022/04/play-tells-story-of-east-devon-communitys-kindness-to-wartime-refugees/) - The inspiring wartime story of a Devon village and church community which offered sanctuary to Jewish child refugees has been turned into a play. Talaton a Wartime Refuge tells the story of how six children who fled Poland as part of the Kindertransport evacuation in 1939, were given homes in the East Devon village of
- [When Jewish kids fled Nazis, UK families took them in.](https://kindertransport.org/2022/04/when-jewish-kids-fled-nazis-uk-families-took-them-in/) - Ann Chadwick’s father remembered hearing Suzanne Spitzer quietly sobbing in her bedroom, crying “Mutter, mutter” (“Mother, mother”). The five-year-old had just arrived at the Chadwick family’s Cambridge home on the Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia — one of the 10,000 Jewish refugee children who escaped the Nazis and were taken in by Britain on the eve of
- [Cambridge Kindertransport author says refugees then faced UK visa blocks familiar to Ukrainians today](https://kindertransport.org/2022/04/cambridge-kindertransport-author-says-refugees-then-faced-uk-visa-blocks-familiar-to-ukrainians-today/) - Cambridge author and Holocaust educator Mike Levy was able to source material for his recently published book about 1930s Kindertransport children from a tranche of records made publicly available by Cambridge University Library in 2020. The archive of Cambridge Refugee Committee documents from 1938-39 reveal the difficulties of obtaining visas and the dearth – part
- [He's 98, I'm 43 - How a Holocaust Survivor Became My Best Friend](https://kindertransport.org/2022/04/hes-98-im-43-how-a-holocaust-survivor-became-my-best-friend/) - Henry Wuga escaped Nazi persecution at 15. Chitra Ramaswamy is half his age, the daughter of Indian immigrants. She explains how their bond developed
- [Myth, history and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/myth-history-and-the-kindertransport/) - There has been much talk of Britain’s “noble tradition of looking after refugees” and journalists and politicians have taken the story of the Kindertransport as the defining moment in the history of Britain’s policy towards refugees. There are several problems here. First, the Kindertransport is misleading in several crucial respects. In his important book, Journeys
- [My father, the child refugee, helped to change Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/my-father-the-child-refugee-helped-to-change-britain/) - If my father hadn’t been saved, his three sons, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren wouldn’t be here today. That’s why I support an openhearted welcome for those fleeing persecution anywhere and have been deeply unimpressed by the responses of recent British governments. Yet what is happening in Ukraine feels even closer to home. It is
- [Austria Improves Nationality Law For Descendants Of Nazi Victims](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/austria-improves-nationality-law-for-descendants-of-nazi-victims/)
- [Kindertransport survivors condemn Putin’s assault](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/kindertransport-survivors-condemn-putins-assault/) - The Kindertransport Association was formed to educate and inform the “next generations” and the public so that the critical role of the Kindertransport during the Holocaust would not be forgotten. But that is only one part of our mission. We carry the burden of ensuring that the horrors imposed by the Holocaust on our families
- [Pretending the Kindertransport was a part of a 'noble tradition'](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/pretending-the-kindertransport-was-a-part-of-a-noble-tradition/) - To cite the kindertransport as evidence of a “noble tradition” of welcoming refugees is to betray the facts and to deceive ourselves. It is quite true that 9,000 Jews came to Britain on the kindertransport. But why exactly was it children who were admitted, given that it was Jews of all ages who faced the
- [The Ukrainian refugee crisis triggered a wave of Kindertransport activism](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/the-ukrainian-refugee-crisis-triggered-a-wave-of-kindertransport-activism/) - Within days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, photographs started to appear of Kindertransport memorials draped in the Ukraine flag. The message “safe passage now” was printed on a brown luggage label, similar to the ones the Kinder wore as they fled their homelands, and placed at the front of the memorial in London. This
- [From ‘Kindertransport’ to ‘Ukrainetransport’](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/from-kindertransport-to-ukrainetransport/) - A researcher who revealed the heroic efforts of ordinary British people in saving Jewish children from the Nazis has spoken out about why the government should trust citizens in a humanitarian emergency like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 72-year-old said his Jewish community has this week launched an initiative called ‘Ukrainetransport’. Rabbi Jonathan Romain from
- [Play portrays Ukrainian theme of refugees with Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/play-portrays-ukrainian-theme-of-refugees-with-kindertransport/) - Kindertransport, beginning nexr Thursday (March 10), is the seminal play by Diane Samuels wrestling with the short and long term consequences of exactly that. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, nine year-old Eva had waved goodbye to her mother Helga and finds herself alone on the platform at Liverpool Street
- [Open your homes to Ukrainian refugees, rabbi urges British families](https://kindertransport.org/2022/03/open-your-homes-to-ukrainian-refugees-rabbi-urges-british-families/) - A rabbi whose mother fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport has founded a scheme for Britons to host refugees from Ukraine, as the UN revealed one million people have now fled the country in the face of the Russian invasion. The “Ukrainetransport” scheme has been set up by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, 67, the head of
- [Daughter of Kindertransport hero Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/daughter-of-kindertransport-hero-nicholas-winton/) - The daughter of the hero who helped organise the Kindertransport evacuation of Jewish children has said that the UK Government’s response to Ukrainian refugees is “completely inadequate”. Barbara Winton, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, said that Britain had a “moral responsibility to offer what help we can” to Ukranians fleeing their homeland in response
- [Fairfield Holocaust survivor reflects on life on 100th birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/fairfield-holocaust-survivor-reflects-on-life-on-100th-birthday/) - Charles Ohlenberg, a Fairfield resident and Holocaust survivor, turned 100 on Thursday. Even with his century worth of memories, his experience surviving the genocide, when most of his family did not, is still at the forefront of his mind.
- [New museum display highlights local survivor stories](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/new-museum-display-highlights-local-survivor-stories/) - Lisl Schick (née Porges) was only a child when the Nazis annexed Austria (to a grand welcome) and began to persecute the Jewish population. Faced with the dangers of Nazi occupation, Lisl and her family were forced to flee Austria. With her brother Walter, she escaped to Great Britain through the Kindertransport. The siblings eventually
- [Acts of heroism and compassion](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/acts-of-heroism-and-compassion/) - The Kitchener Camp and the Kindertransport were acts of heroism and compassion. Looking back, one wonders why so much that could have been done wasn’t. These are eternal lessons that need to be repeated over and over again.
- [The Island of Extraordinary Captives](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/the-island-of-extraordinary-captives/) - The Island of Extraordinary Captives focuses on Britain’s internment camp on the Isle of Man, chock full of artists, musicians and intellectuals. The reader is fully invested in protagonist Peter Fleischmann, an orphaned Jewish boy from Berlin with aspirations to become an artist until the Nazis got in the way. Cue Kindertransport to Britain; but,
- [New data released on experiences of Kindertransport refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/new-data-released-on-experiences-of-kindertransport-refugees/) - New data has been released documenting the experiences of 10,000 predominantly Jewish children who came to Britain on the Kindertransport. The figures from the Association of Jewish Refugees builds on a 2007 survey which was previously only published in the form of a database. The enhanced version now includes accompanying notes from the respondents
- [The Glasgow trail that sheds light on the lives of Jewish refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/the-glasgow-trail-that-sheds-light-on-the-lives-of-jewish-refugees/) - The hidden stories of hundreds who fled Europe to Glasgow during the Holocaust is revealed in a new heritage walking trail. Using collections from the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, the trail showcases buildings connected with Jewish refugees who were taken in by Britain on the Kindertransport programme. Each child had to be sponsored. Hundreds of
- [From Kindertransport to Reproductive Medicine](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/from-kindertransport-to-reproductive-medicine/) - Bruno Lunenfeld was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927, the only child in a prominent family. But despite his privileged childhood, his early memories include having his tram ticket stolen and his shoelaces cut by Hitler Youth, as well as the ache of parting from his mother to join the Kindertransport to England.
- [Harwich to host tribute to Kindertransport children](https://kindertransport.org/2022/02/harwich-to-host-tribute-to-kindertransport-children/) - A memorial tribute to the child refugees who came to Britain on the Kindertransport will be unveiled in the autumn in Harwich, the point of entry for most of the arrivals. Award-winning Essex artist Ian Wolter has created a statue depicting five children descending a ship’s gang-plank.
- [Mother who escaped Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2022/01/mother-who-escaped-nazi-germany/) - Tim Locke’s mother, Ruth Neumeyer, grew up in the German town of Dachau with her parents and brother Raymond. Despite not following the Jewish faith, several of Ruth’s relatives were Jewish, meaning under the Nazi’s Nuremberg laws she and her family were classified as second-class citizens. Ruth and Raymond escaped Germany to the UK on
- [Opinion: Holocaust Memorial Day tribute to Bradford refugee hostel](https://kindertransport.org/2022/01/opinion-holocaust-memorial-day-tribute-to-bradford-refugee-hostel/) - IF it hadn’t been for a mix-up over passports, Albert Waxman would never have made it to the safety of a house in Manningham. Albert was 14 when he left Germany and came to the UK on the Kindertransport, the rescue system taking 10,000 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Europe from 1938-39. Arriving at a
- [Holocaust memorial ceremony to be held at town's rail station](https://kindertransport.org/2022/01/holocaust-memorial-ceremony-to-be-held-at-towns-rail-station/) - Wreaths are due to be laid as a town falls silent to remember others. At the spot where hundreds of young Jewish refugees arrived in 1938, a special service of remembrance is to be held this week. Commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday, January 27, Lowestoft rail station will host a special ceremony.
- [Nobel Prize Given to Late Jewish Physicist](https://kindertransport.org/2022/01/nobel-prize-given-to-late-jewish-physicist/) - A Nobel Prize medal in chemistry won in 1998 by late Jewish physicist Walter Kohn, who was among the roughly 10,000 children saved from Nazi-occupied territories during World War II by the Kindertransport, will be auctioned next week.
- [Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport”](https://kindertransport.org/2022/01/into-the-arms-of-strangers-stories-of-the-kindertransport/) - Learn from film producer and author Deborah Oppenheimer as she discusses the 2000 documentary film “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport.” The film tells the story about the British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Nazi-occupied Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and
- [Kindertransport Britons urge UK to reopen safe routes for refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2021/12/kindertransport-britons-urge-uk-to-reopen-safe-routes-for-refugees/) - Members of the Kindertransport have urged the government to reopen safe routes for refugees in Europe, especially children, trying to reach the UK or risk more tragedies occurring in the Channel. Alf Dubs, Stephanie Shirley and Erich Reich, who all arrived in the UK as child refugees on the Kindertransport, said the UK was losing
- [Lord Dubs: ‘Someone has to speak up for people who risk their lives](https://kindertransport.org/2021/12/lord-dubs-someone-has-to-speak-up-for-people-who-risk-their-lives/) - When Lord Dubs saw children being carried wrapped in blankets out of small boats in Kent he was instantly taken back to the moment he arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport having fled the Nazis at the age of six. “What it made me feel is terrible pain for the people who are fleeing,” says
- [Jewish refugees are being honoured at Watford's Cassiobury Park](https://kindertransport.org/2021/12/jewish-refugees-are-being-honoured-at-watfords-cassiobury-park/) - The Watford Inter Faith Association gathered to plant an oak tree within the Peace Garden at Cassiobury Park on December 5. Led by the Association of Jewish Refugees, it was to honour the people and places that symbolise the enormous contribution of Jewish refugees. Among those honoured were Harold Meyer, former Chair and Honorary President
- [Wells Maltings plan events for Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2021/12/wells-maltings-plan-events-for-holocaust-memorial-day/) - The centrepiece of the Maltings commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day is FÜR DAS KIND / For the Child, a major photographic exhibition by artists Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre. The pair asked survivors to share the personal belongings that accompanied them as children on the Kindertransport. Very often these objects were the last physical contact
- [Pocket dictionary that opened new life chapter for Kindertransport girl](https://kindertransport.org/2021/11/pocket-dictionary-that-opened-new-life-chapter-for-kindertransport-girl/) - With its frayed leather cover and well-thumbed pages, it is an ordinary German-to-English dictionary. But for one of the last Jewish children to flee Vienna after the Nazis took power, this was a vital tool for her new life in Britain. The book, on show in a new exhibition on the Kindertransport, belonged to Susanne
- [Kindertransport Which Saved Thousands Of Jewish Children Is Nearly Forgotten](https://kindertransport.org/2021/11/kindertransport-which-saved-thousands-of-jewish-children-is-nearly-forgotten/) - It is particularly disappointing to find that the Kindertransport, an important historic chapter, that reflected the best of humanity and should serve of a beacon of hope in the darkest of times, is being forgotten. Now more than ever it is critical that we find new and innovative ways to perpetuate the memory of the
- [Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued'](https://kindertransport.org/2020/09/nicky-vera-a-quiet-hero-of-the-holocaust-and-the-children-he-rescued/) - Book for young readers by artist Peter Sis will be published January 2021. “This is really a story about people who are leaving home,” Sís said. “We all leave home. And we realize that we can never go back to the same home we left as a child. And it’s also about someone who
- [Ein Zug rettete ihnen das Leben](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/ein-zug-rettete-ihnen-das-leben/) - Überlebende der „Kindertransporte“ und Nachkommen auf dem Dach des Bundestags Foto: Michael Jänecke/ Babelphoto Berlin – Die war genau ein Jahr zuvor in einen Zug gestiegen. Gerade elf Jahre alt. Von Berlin aus über Amsterdam, dann mit dem Schiff nach England. In die Sicherheit. Ilse Henry sollte ihre Mutter nicht wiedersehen. Die Jüdin wurde 1943
- [Als Kinder nahmen sie allein den Zug – ins Überleben](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/als-kinder-nahmen-sie-allein-den-zug-ins-uberleben/) - Four Holocaust survivors and 14 descendants of other Jews rescued by "Kindertransporte" traveled to Berlin on Friday, 80 years later. In cities through which the transports passed. Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, then over to England. In Berlin, the group was received in the House of Representatives and in the Bundestag.
- [At 91, Dr Ruth's still the goddess of good sex](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/at-91-dr-ruths-still-the-goddess-of-good-sex/) - "I want to tell you something before I forget,” Dr Ruth Westheimer says at the beginning of our conversation. “Make sure you tell the Jewish Chronicle that every time I come to London, I go to Liverpool Street station and look at the Kindertransport sculpture.”
- [Marion und die Geschichte zweier Wunder](https://kindertransport.org/2019/10/marion-und-die-geschichte-zweier-wunder/) - Marion in New York, photo by Stella Schumacher Die in Berlin geborene Marion emigrierte 1939 zunächst mit einem Kindertransport nach London und lebt heute in New York City
- [81 Year-Old Kindertransportee Will Retrace His Holocaust Escape Route](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/81-year-old-kindertransportee-will-retrace-his-holocaust-escape-route/) - Paul Alexander, and grandson Daniel, 14, are both taking part in a commemorative cycle ride from Berlin to London to mark 80 years since the Kindertransports. (World Jewish Relief/PA Wire) Paul Alexander, a former child refugee from Nazi Germany, is embarking on a bike trip that will retrace his original journey to freedom, paying tribute
- [Remembering The Kindertransport 80 Years On at the Jewish Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/remembering-the-kindertransport-80-years-on-at-the-jewish-museum/) - Elsa Shamash and her brother before they came to the UK on the Kindertransport picture © Jewish Museum London “The first train arrived on December 2 so the organisations and volunteers involved reacted very quickly, it was a fast response and an amazing effort to galvanise the British Home Office,” says Kathryn Pieren, curator of
- [The Cost Of Courage: The 2 Couples Who Rescued My Family From The Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/the-cost-of-courage-the-2-couples-who-rescued-my-family-from-the-nazis/) - In recent months, I’ve learned that my life is bound together with two families who took enormous risks to save my father and my grandparents from the Nazis. What I have discovered about the rescuers is both wondrous and bleak. One family, the Furstenbergs, has thrived; another, the Mynareks, is gone, seemingly without a trace.
- [This Crowborough woman fled the Nazis with just the clothes on her back](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/this-crowborough-woman-fled-the-nazis-with-just-the-clothes-on-her-back/) - Herta Stanton, from Windlesham Manor in Crowborough, has turned 100. A Crowborough woman who fled the Nazis as the escort of a young boy on the Kindertransport before the start of the Second World War has celebrated her 100th birthday.
- [Leisure Village resident remembers the train ride that saved her life](https://kindertransport.org/2016/01/leisure-village-resident-remembers-the-train-ride-that-saved-her-life/) - JUAN CARLO/THE STAR Lina Edwards escaped Germany on the Kindertransport, the informal name given to a rescue effort that saved thousands of children When Lina "Lee" Edwards was 15 years old, her tearful mother dropped her off at a train station, where mostly Jewish children like her were being whisked away from the Nazis and
- [‘The Last Girl at Victoria Station’ a Kindertransport story](https://kindertransport.org/2015/04/the-last-girl-at-victoria-station-a-kindertransport-story/) - The late Anne Forchheimer in 2008 with her daughter, Rachel Green. Photo courtesy of Rachel Green Every morning in 1936, Anne Forchheimer would bicycle to school, over a bridge in the German town of Coburg. She tried not to notice the signs of hate she passed along the way. Hate for Jews and the call
- [South Florida's Jewish 'Kindertransport' survivor grateful for Nicholas Win](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/south-floridas-jewish-kindertransport-survivor-grateful-for-nicholas-win/) - Anita's passport when she traveled to London, June 1939. COURTESY OF ANITA HOFFER Anita was six when she said good bye to her mom. She was crying on a train during her trip from Berlin to Holland. Her dad didn't know she was leaving Germany. She felt alone, but she wasn't. She was part of
- [Dallas exhibit recalls rescue of 10,000 Jewish children from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2014/01/dallas-exhibit-recalls-rescue-of-10000-jewish-children-from-nazis/) - Holocaust survivor and Dallas resident Magie Furst, by David Woo/Staff Photographer For almost 75 years, Magie Furst has owed her very survival to the kindness of strangers. She and her brother were among about 10,000 German Jewish children who survived the Holocaust because of a British rescue effort known as the “kindertransport.” For many years,
- [Photo prompted Dutch woman to learn fate of Jewish children refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2014/01/photo-prompted-dutch-woman-to-learn-fate-of-jewish-children-refugees/) - Uli Herzberg at 12 . He was one of about 2000 German Jewish children sent to the Netherlands in the late 1930s to escape the Nazis. He was captured in 1943. COURTESY OF MIRIAM KEESING Dutch pianist Miriam Keesing never expected to research Jewish emigrant children who fled Germany for the Netherlands between 1938 and
- [Safe passage from horror of Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2014/02/safe-passage-from-horror-of-holocaust/) - Lotti Blumenthal holds a photo that includes her, 5th from left, back row, at Burges Hill, Sussex, England. Howard Lipin When Lotti Blumenthal was 13 years old in 1938, she packed some heavy sweaters, a Hebrew song book and two teddy bears named Eggi and Nüngi in a small suitcase, waved goodbye to her family
- [Museum gala to evoke memories of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2014/02/museum-gala-to-evoke-memories-of-kindertransport/) - The Florida Holocaust Museum could not have selected two more appropriate co-chairs for its upcoming “To Life: To Children” gala on Thursday, Feb. 27 in St. Petersburg when it honors those whose lives were saved by the Kindertransport. Co-chairs Lisl Schick of Largo and Marietta Drucker of Seminole were both saved by what has become
- [World Kindertransport Day in Burbank, CA](https://kindertransport.org/2014/12/world-kindertransport-day-in-burbank-ca/) - Ruth Moll speaks at the second World Kindertransport Day at the Burbank Town Center on Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Tim Berger / Staff Photographer Kindertransport survivors share their stories. Burbank Town Center talk remembers 76th anniversary of Kindertransport. Ruth Moll and Hilda Fogelson remember packing their life’s belongings into a single suitcase, the tearful goodbyes,
- [Kindertransport rescue movement to be focus of Yom Hashoah event Thursday](https://kindertransport.org/2013/04/kindertransport-rescue-movement-to-be-focus-of-yom-hashoah-event-thursday/) - Kurt and Margaret Goldberger had much in common when they met at a social club in New York City in 1947, two years after World War II. Both owed their lives to a unique program that transported Jewish children, without their parents, out of Nazi-controlled regions of Europe to safety in England. The Goldbergers will
- [Your Neighbor: Eva Schaal](https://kindertransport.org/2013/05/your-neighbor-eva-schaal/) - Eva Schaal left Berlin during the Holocaust on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission to get Jewish children out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig. Eva Schaal remembers the night Adolf Hitler came to power. She was 11 years old, and was performing on stage when she heard an announcement
- [Leo's "Miracle" Escape From Nazi Killers](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/leos-miracle-escape-from-nazi-killers/) - Young Leo Metzstein Leo Metzstein, 81, was one of 10,000 Jewish children living in Germany who were allowed out the country by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
- [Susan Bookbinder: The Most Challenging Story I've Ever Covered](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/susan-bookbinder-the-most-challenging-story-ive-ever-covered/) - Reporter Susan Bookbinder with 2g's Barbara Dresner and Thomas Bonin Learn, Learn, Learn - they can take everything from you except what's in your brain. A mother's last words to her teenage daughter at Leipzig Central Station in August 1939. Feige Mendzigursky wore a name tag stamped with swastikas around her neck - the pass
- [Married Ilford couple who survived Nazi persecution marked 75th Kindertrans](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/married-ilford-couple-who-survived-nazi-persecution-marked-75th-kindertrans/) - Alfred and Miriam Buechler Alfred Buechler, 87, and wife Miriam, 78, were guests of Prince Charles on Monday to remember the Kindertransport – a rescue mission that brought around 10,000 children here between 1938 and 1939. Alfred was one of the Kinder, as the rescued children refer to themselves, while Miriam survived two Nazi camps
- [Edith Goldberg, 1928-2013](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/edith-goldberg-1928-2013/) - Edith Goldberg, Leeds, UK 11-year-old Edith Michel arrived in Leeds with her younger sister Irmgard – both found safe havens with Jewish families. Born in Kaiserslautern on May 13, 1928, she grew up in a little village, population of around 200, of whom only 20 were Jewish. Edith was one of the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship
- [Indianapolis man among children rescued from Nazi rule by long unknown hero](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/indianapolis-man-among-children-rescued-from-nazi-rule-by-long-unknown-hero/) - Hanus Grosz with Kindertransport Quilts For more than five decades, Hanus Grosz did not know the name of the man who saved him from the Nazis. He did not know who had arranged to whisk him and nearly 700 other children out of Czechoslavakia and into new homes in England. Seemingly chance encounters and fleeting
- [Commemorating Kindertransport's 75th anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/commemorating-kindertransports-75th-anniversary/) - From left, Rella Adler, Lisa Saretzky, Mark Burin and Anita Hoffer will share their experiences as participants in the Kindertransport during a Dec. 8 program commemorating the 75th anniversary Anita Lowenberg was living in Berlin with her mother and grandparents in June 1939 when the 6-year-old was told one morning to pack some clothing. Lowenberg
- [Harry Themal: 75 years ago the Kindertransport saved my life](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/harry-themal-75-years-ago-the-kindertransport-saved-my-life/) - Harry Themal, Deleware News Journal columnist This has been an important year for memorable anniversaries but for this columnist the most important occasion was 75 years ago. That was when England created the Kindertransport and 10,000 mostly Jewish children, including myself, were brought to safety from the Nazi terror. Thanksgiving is an apt time to
- [On World Kindertransport Day, Burbank resident recalls escaping Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/on-world-kindertransport-day-burbank-resident-recalls-escaping-holocaust/) - Susanne Goldsmith. Goldsmith, 82, was whisked out of Nazi-occupied Vienna with her brother Peter on Dec. 10, 1938 on a Kindertransport. (Photo by John McCoy) Young Susanne and Peter Weiss had been whisked to England two years earlier when a strange couple appeared on their doorstep. The two Jewish children hadn’t seen their parents, Hans
- [Congressman Adam Schiff recognizes the 75th Kindertransport  Anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/congressman-adam-schiff-recognizes-the-75th-kindertransport-anniversary/) - Adam Schiff, representative of the 28th District of California recognizes the Seventy Fifth anniversary of the Kindertransports. Thanks to KT2 David Meyerhof, resident of Burbank, California. David will be speaking with Kind Suzanne Goldsmith on December 2nd, see the events page listing.
- [Burbank, California Proclaims December 2, 2013 World Kindertransport Day](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/burbank-california-proclaims-december-2-2013-world-kindertransport-day/) - World Kindertransport Day Proclamation KT2 David Meyerhof, resident of Burbank, California has made this happen! He will be speaking with Kind Suzanne Goldsmith on December 2nd, see the events page listing.
- [How Kindertransports Saved My Family](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/how-kindertransports-saved-my-family/) - Lizzie (center), Ilse (bottom right), Hans (bottom left) Fritz (bottom center) and their parents. When her parents escorted 16-year-old Alice, my aunt, to the Vienna train station, her father was crying. Her mother on the other hand, remained strong and optimistic. “She said, ‘We’re going to see each other again,’” Alice, nicknamed Lizzie, remembered. ”And
- [Boca Raton, Florida, Declares World Kindertransport Day](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/boca-raton-florida-declares-world-kindertransport-day/) - The Mayor of Boca Raton, Florida, declares December 2, 2013, World Kindertransport Day.
- [Photo Gallery: World Kindertransport Day, Burbank, CA](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/photo-gallery-world-kindertransport-day-burbank-ca/) - (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer / December 2, 2013) A group photo of Kinder, with members of the Burbank City Council and the Temple Beth Emet President Ira L. Goldstein and organizer and KT2 David Meyerhof at recognition of the 75th anniversary of the first Kindertransport at the Burbank Town Center on Monday, December 2,
- [Holocaust in Memories](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/holocaust-in-memories/) - John Schnellenberg with his parents' passports. Mr Schnellenberg was three when he arrived in New Zealand in 1939. Suitcases belonging to two Jewish children sent by their parents from Nazi Germany to England, and eventually to Masterton, will be unveiled at the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. The two children "escaped the horrors of the
- [Survivor shares his experience as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/survivor-shares-his-experience-as-part-of-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - Holocaust survivor Guenther Goldsmith talks to Missouri University students about his experience fleeing Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport, in Ellis Library on the MU campus. I was put on a train with 10 other children in Berlin to Spain and then got on a boat and four weeks later arrived in New York, Goldsmith said.
- [Kindertransport survivors share stories with students](https://kindertransport.org/2012/05/kindertransport-survivors-share-stories-with-students/) - Kurt and Margaret Goldberger hold teddy bears they received after speaking at the College of Saint Elizabeth. More than 500 public and Catholic parochial school students, accompanied by their teachers, sat in rapt attention at the College of Saint Elizabeth on May 1 as two Jewish Holocaust survivors, Kurt and Margaret Goldberger, described being shipped
- [The Sunday Conversation: Pianist Mona Golabek holds on to the music](https://kindertransport.org/2012/05/the-sunday-conversation-pianist-mona-golabek-holds-on-to-the-music/) - Mona Gollabek's one-woman show 'The Pianist of Willesden Lane' is now at the Geffen Playhouse. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times / May 25, 2012) L.A. concert pianist and radio show host Mona Golabek makes her theatrical debut at the Geffen Playhouse in "The Pianist of Willesden Lane," a one-woman show of music and words
- [Dr. Ruth wants to get you drunk!](https://kindertransport.org/2012/05/dr-ruth-wants-to-get-you-drunk/) - Cheers! Dr. Ruth Westheimer will celebrate her 84th birthday next week — and her new wine line, which will be sold in grocery stores and bodegas. (Photo by Tamara Beckwith) “I was an orphan at the age of 10, Hitler didn’t want me to be alive. Today, when I see my grandchildren, I say: ‘I
- [‘I’ve given away £65m’](https://kindertransport.org/2012/11/ive-given-away-65m/) - IT entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley, 79, founded Xansa, a global software company that brought her wealth of £150m, much of which she has given away. Shirley arrived in England in 1939 at the age of five as an unaccompanied Kindertransport refugee. Adopted by a middle-aged couple, she grew up in the Midlands and on the
- [Stamford woman recalls life as Holocaust refugee](https://kindertransport.org/2011/02/stamford-woman-recalls-life-as-holocaust-refugee/) - Miriam Goldfarb holds a photo of her mother Elizabeth Goldfarb in 2nd grade, she's 3rd from the left. Elizabeth Goldfarb was 17 when her parents put her on a train and sent her far away from Nuremberg, Germany. She spent the next year and a half in England, working for a London family and trying
- [Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/gustav-metzger-historic-photographs/) - “Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs” is the first US solo museum exhibition of the influential eighty-six-year-old artist and activist Gustav Metzger, and highlights his long engagement with historical trauma and representation. A Kindertransport survivor of the Holocaust, Metzger’s first-hand experience of displacement and destruction shaped his subsequent outlook on the relationship between art and society.
- [Book of Dr. Ruth](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/book-of-dr-ruth/) - On Thursday 21, the psychosexual therapist speaks at Planned Parenthood of Illinois’s annual Roe v. Wade event,“The Future of Choice.” You were very young when your family sent you from Frankfurt to Switzerland on a Kindertransport. "On January 5, 1939, I was on that train. If my parents hadn’t put me on that train, I
- [Lessons in optimism from a Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/lessons-in-optimism-from-a-holocaust-survivor/) - Martin Maxwell, 85 accepts honorary degree. A Toronto businessman who narrowly escaped the Holocaust as a teenager was awarded an honourary diploma from a Summerhill private school this morning. Orphaned at a young age in Austria, Mr. Maxwell left a Vienna orphange at 14 following Kristallnacht, and never received his high school diploma. He narrowly
- [Holocaust Memorial Day remembered in Tenby](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/holocaust-memorial-day-remembered-in-tenby/) - Class 4 of St. Teilo’s School, Tenby, remembers Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27). Class 4 of St. Teilo’s School, Tenby, remembered Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) when Mrs. Annette Hollows gave the class a talk about Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransport and the horrors of the Holocaust. The class responded by producing a book
- [Britons honoured for holocaust heroism](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/britons-honoured-for-holocaust-heroism/) - Nicholas Winton, the man called the British Schindler Two surviving recipients, Sir Nicholas Winton and Denis Avey, will be given their medals in person while another 25 will be recognised posthumously. Mr Brown said all were ''true British heroes and a source of national pride for all of us'' and should inspire future generations. Sir
- [Dan Springer: Arts Educator of the Year](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/dan-springer-arts-educator-of-the-year/) - Dan Springer, chairman of the fine and performing arts department at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. CAPE COD —In 1995, Springer was hired to teach at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School where he has served as chairman of the school’s fine and performing arts department since 2007. Springer grew up in New York City, the son and
- [Survivor's story is moving opener for Anne Frank display](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/survivors-story-is-moving-opener-for-anne-frank-display/) - REMEMBERING: Herbert Levy remembers his time as a 10-year-old Jewish boy in the internee camp at Bradda Glen, Port Erin When Herbert Levy was 10 years old, he spent a summer in Bradda Glen holiday camp in Port Erin. It was 1939 and he was a Jewish internee sent to the Isle of Man with
- [Mizel Museum acquires Lowenstein collection](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/mizel-museum-acquires-lowenstein-collection/) - Long before Henry Lowenstein became known as Denver’s most prominent theater producer, he was a child of the kindertransport. Now the theater legend has has gifted his personal documents from World War II to the Mizel Museum at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture. These documents detail his family’s struggle to survive the Holocaust.
- [Auerbach oil painting expected to sell for £1 million](https://kindertransport.org/2010/08/auerbach-oil-painting-expected-to-sell-for-1-million/) - 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,
- [Jews recreate kindertransport train trip](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/jews-recreate-kindertransport-train-trip/) - Nicholas Winton with Tal Cohain, whose grandmother Hanna Slome was rescued by Winton's Kindertransports. From the Jerusalem Post, article on the Winton train: It took 70 years for this reunion, but when the vintage steam train pulled into London with a group of elderly Holocaust survivors, the emotions started to flow. The three-day trip from
- [Gustav Metzger: 1959-2009, Serpentine Gallery, London](https://kindertransport.org/2009/10/gustav-metzger-1959-2009-serpentine-gallery-london/) - ‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’ (1998/2007) Metzger, who arrived in Britain from Nurenburg at the age of 12 on a Kindertransport (and whose parents subsequently perished in the Holocaust), remains a radical and his relentless, revolutionary political stance places him at a vast remove from the insistent commercialism and
- [Rachel Zimbler recalls Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2009/11/rachel-zimbler-recalls-holocaust/) - Kristallnacht survivor Rachel Zimbler speaks at the Kelley School of Business. Zimbler was just 10 years old when she left her home in Vienna, Austria. “I am going to ask you not to look at me as an 81-year-old lady, but as a 10-year-old,” she said while standing in front of a crowd of students
- [Suitcase of memories A tribute to the Winton Children](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/suitcase-of-memories-a-tribute-to-the-winton-children/) - Exhibit photographs by Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre The National Museum in Prague has an exhibition through December 2009, "Für das Kind: Winton Train: Inspiration by Goodness." Along with paying tribute to this extraordinary man, the exhibition showcases the theme of parental love. As exhibition co-author Potter said at the opening of the show: "It
- [Purdue professor tells his story](https://kindertransport.org/2007/04/purdue-professor-tells-his-story/) - Dr. Joseph Haberer holds up a photo of himself as young boy. At age 9 1/2, he boarded a ship with several hundred other children from Nazi Germany to England. Comet photo by Jennifer Archibald Joseph Haberer was one of the 10,000 children rescued from Nazi Germany and transported to England in 1938-1939. He told
- [As Hanna fled Nazis, mum urged: ‘Don’t weep for me’](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/as-hanna-fled-nazis-mum-urged-dont-weep-for-me/) - Winton re-enactment train arrives in Harwich. Hanna Slome was 14 when she was put on a train from Prague to Harwich in May, 1939. Little did she know it would be the last time she saw her mother’s face. She is one of 20 from Winton‘s trains who joined more than 100 descendants to retrace
- [Harwich: Kindertransport survivors share memories](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/harwich-kindertransport-survivors-share-memories/) - Hanna Slome shares her memories with reporter Caroline Tilley Hanna Slome, 84, was 14 when she was put on a Kindertransport train to Harwich by her mother in May 1939. She said: “When my mother said goodbye she said ‘if anything happens to me don’t cry for me. I’m dying for my beliefs.’ “That left
- [Interview with Gustav Metzger](https://kindertransport.org/2009/10/interview-with-gustav-metzger/) - The current exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery of the work of influential Jewish artist, Gustav Metzger marks the 50th anniversary of the date when Metzger decided to abandon painting to use everyday objects in his art as a critique of the terrible wastage of consumer society. Now aged 83, he continues to make new work
- [Henry Ehrenreich obituary](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/henry-ehrenreich-obituary/) - Henry Ehrenreich was born in Frankfurt on May 11, 1928, the only child of Frieda and Nathan—a prominent pianist, choral conductor, and music critic. It was not an auspicious time to be born a Jew in Germany. On June 20, 1939, Frieda entrusted 11-year-old Henry to the Kindertransport. The visa on which Henry traveled, and
- [A Real-Life Comic Book Superhero](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/a-real-life-comic-book-superhero/) - 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
- [Three Works Celebrate the Life and Art of Eva Hesse this Weekend](https://kindertransport.org/2010/09/three-works-celebrate-the-life-and-art-of-eva-hesse-this-weekend/) - 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
- [Herman Hirschberger given MBE in Queen's New Year honours list](https://kindertransport.org/2010/12/herman-hirschberger-given-mbe-in-queens-new-year-honours-list/) - Herman Hirschberger at a Holocaust Memorial Day event with pupils from Bentley Wood High School. Herman Hirschberger, a Stanmore holocaust survivor on the New Year honours list says fighting for justice for Jewish refugees was the “best job I've ever done”. He will be given an MBE by the Queen for services to the Jewish
- [Jewish heritage program on tap at German institute](https://kindertransport.org/2011/02/jewish-heritage-program-on-tap-at-german-institute/) - Ralph Samuel Rita Goldhor, Leo Mark Horovitz and Ralph Samuel all have extraordinary tales about how they escaped the Holocaust in 1939 via the Kindertransport. The trio will be talking in a roundtable discussion titled “Holocaust Survivors Reclaim Their Mother Tongue and Cultural Heritage.” Open to the public, the talk is being organized by the
- [Trina Robbins Discovers "Lily Renee"](https://kindertransport.org/2012/01/trina-robbins-discovers-lily-renee/) - Robbin's young-adult graphic novel chronicles Renee's childhood before she became a comic artist. Robbins' new book is "Lily Renee: Escape Artist." The true story of Lily Renee, a girl who escaped to Britain via kindertransport after Nazi Germany annexed Austria, worked at a hospital during the blitz and was reunited with her parents in the
- [Children spared from Holocaust share legacy](https://kindertransport.org/2012/11/children-spared-from-holocaust-share-legacy/) - Dr. Michael Berenbaum speaks about a variety of Jewish issues from the past as well as in today's world on Sunday. Dr. Berenbaum was the closing keynote speaker at The Kindertransport Association 2012 When George Fogelson speaks to schools about his mother's experience during the Holocaust, he brings a relative's passport stamped with a "J"
- [They left their families to survive the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2012/11/they-left-their-families-to-survive-the-nazis/) - Ruth Moos, 90, of Laguna Woods was 13 when she fled Nazi-controlled Germany in the kindertransport effort. The day in 1936 when 13-year-old Ruth Moos fled Nazi-controlled Germany, her parents stood on the train departure platform in Berlin, crying. But she didn't dare look at them or wave goodbye. The pain would have been unbearable.
- [Youngest Holocaust survivors look to next generation](https://kindertransport.org/2013/01/youngest-holocaust-survivors-look-to-next-generation/) - Holocaust survivor Doris Small, center, with daughter Miriam Saunders, left, and granddaughter Jenniffer Veno (Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times/Nov 4, 2012) She was escaping Nazi Germany through the rescue mission Kindertransport, which carried about 10,000 youths to Britain for shelter during the Holocaust.... As they grew older, they sought out one another, drawn by a
- [Kindertransport: Children who fled the Nazis to Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/kindertransport-children-who-fled-the-nazis-to-britain/) - Bernd Koschland, transported from Bavaria, aged 8 Ten thousand children were evacuated by parents desperate to get them to safety. Acts of commemoration are taking place this week, but as survivors grow old, how should their stories be remembered? BBC Newsnight hears the stories of four of them.
- [Hundreds gather for Kindertransport reunion](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/hundreds-gather-for-kindertransport-reunion/) - Hundreds gather for Kindertransport reunion A generation of young Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi occupied Europe as children met again for the 75th reunion of the movement that helped them escape. More than 400 who took part in the Kindertransport met at the Jewish Free School, in The Mall, Kenton, on Sunday June 23 for
- [Hundreds gather for 75th anniversary reunion of Kindertransportees](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/hundreds-gather-for-75th-anniversary-reunion-of-kindertransportees/) - Kindertransportees Ann and Bob Kirk meet HRH The Prince of Wales More than 400 now elderly people started new lives in Britain after they were sent from countries including Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the Kindertransport. They gathered at the Jewish Free School, in the Mall, Kenton on Sunday for a reunion, and survivors and
- [Sig Silber's Great Adventure](https://kindertransport.org/2013/08/sig-silbers-great-adventure/) - Sig, bottom left, and Zilla Koppold were very young when they arrived in England. Dana Binke, left, was their guarantor, at left cousins Edith and Paula, also on the Kindertransport You live in Leipzig. It is 1939. The world is imploding. It is exploding. Nothing is safe. Nothing makes sense. Because of your family connections,
- ['A lot of kisses from your Daddy'](https://kindertransport.org/2013/08/a-lot-of-kisses-from-your-daddy/) - Mr Foner has always kept the postcards sent by his father after he was sent to Wales as a child A grandfather has revealed the heartbreaking postcards his father sent him from Nazi Germany before he died in Auschwitz. Henry Foner, 81, was just six when his parents sent him to Britain to escape the
- [Director Michael Roemer on his seminal 60s drama Nothing But a Man](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/director-michael-roemer-on-his-seminal-60s-drama-nothing-but-a-man/) - ‘If you look at anyone’s life, it’s pretty crazy. That you don’t end up on the rocks somewhere is just a miracle’ … director Michael Roemer. Photograph: Harold Shapiro. He fled the Nazis for a British boarding school – then made a shocking drama about segregation in the deep south. Michael Roemer talks fate, family
- [Kristallnacht 75th anniversary: Two survivors share extraordinary stories](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/kristallnacht-75th-anniversary-two-survivors-share-extraordinary-stories/) - Otto Deutsch at the site where his parents and sister were killed Two survivors who experienced first-hand the destruction, intimidation and violence during Kristallnacht give extraordinary accounts of their time surviving the ordeal and their eventual rescue by the British mission known as the Kindertransport.
- ['Did they die for you to forget?'](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/did-they-die-for-you-to-forget/) - GVL / Hannah Mico. The main character of "Kindertransport," Eva, is played by Marllory Caillaud-Jones. For most people, it’s an accepted fact that six million Jews died in concentration camps during the Holocaust. But what is not widely discussed is the 10,000 children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia who were saved via the Kindertransport. Grand
- [One-woman play in Berkeley hits home for local ‘Kinder’](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/one-woman-play-in-berkeley-hits-home-for-local-kinder/) - Performer Mona Golabek (left) chats with Ralph Samuel of Oakland and Ilse Eden of Berkeley. photo/dan pine With anti-Semitism rampant and war looming, Ralph Samuel fled his hometown of Dresden, Germany, for safety in England. He was all alone. Then only 7, Samuel was one of nearly 10,000 Jewish children who escaped Germany and Austria
- [I escaped Hitler's Germany and built a new life](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/i-escaped-hitlers-germany-and-built-a-new-life/) - Judy Benton as a child (second from right) with her family. Her parents later died in Auschwitz When Hitler came to power, everything changed. By 1938 the Hitler Youth were very visible in my school. Suddenly no one spoke to me – if they did, they got into trouble. I was moved to the back
- [Kindertransport saved this man's life 75 years ago](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/kindertransport-saved-this-mans-life-75-years-ago/) - Alexander Wilde, now 90 years old. Photo: Glenn Russell, The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press) His father had been taken to Dachau but wrote to tell his mother 'to get the child out.' First he was kicked out of school. Then Alexander Wilde's family was kicked out of their home, he watched soldiers take his father
- [New Exhibit by KT2 Inspired by Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2014/01/new-exhibit-by-kt2-inspired-by-kindertransport/) - Simon Shaw An exhibition to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport and Holocaust Memorial Day uses the artist’s own family’s involvement for inspiration. Artist and teacher Simon Shaw, of Winterbourne Dauntsey, started working on his pieces about nine years ago using photographs from his father Otto’s childhood. For more information, studio address and hours:
- [Marga Forester, 90, Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2014/02/marga-forester-90-holocaust-survivor/) - Marga Forester with her great-grandson, Tapan Parker Wearn, in 2010. Marga Forester, 90, of Wynnewood, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Nazi Germany to England on the famous Kindertransport, died Sunday, Feb. 9, of a heart attack at home. Mrs. Forester, the former Marga Levy, was married to fellow Kindertransport survivor Frank Forester who died
- ['I Had to See That I Didn't Come From a Black Hole'](https://kindertransport.org/2014/02/i-had-to-see-that-i-didnt-come-from-a-black-hole/) - My sister Bertl doesn't call herself a Holocaust survivor, says Starobin, 76, taking her red glasses off. She won't put them on again until she has finished telling her story almost two hours later. "She says we weren't in a camp. But you know what? I lost my parents. I lost my home. I was
- [‘We Would Be Separated, Quite Likely Forever’](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/we-would-be-separated-quite-likely-forever/) - Walter Kohn Nobel laureate and professor emeritus of physics at USCB, KTA member Walter Kohn recalls life under the Austrian Nazi regime, the death of his parents at Auschwitz and the good people who rescued him. On Dec. 2, 1938, a train pulled into Harwich, England. On board were 196 children from a Jewish orphanage
- [Nicholas Winton, the 'British Schindler', honoured by Czechs](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/nicholas-winton-the-british-schindler-honoured-by-czechs/) - Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued. Courtesy Bee's Knees Productions A man nicknamed the British Oskar Schindler, who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis before the second world war and on Monday celebrated his 105th birthday, is to receive the highest honour in the Czech Republic. Sir Nicholas Winton enabled
- [Moravian College graduate saved from Nazis on Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/moravian-college-graduate-saved-from-nazis-on-kindertransport/) - JOHN KISH IV, MORAVIAN COLLEGE The perpetual question, which has been with me ever since the Kindertransport, is: Why was I saved when so many others perished? Why did that happen? said the 86-year-old Backer, whose memoir, "Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism," will be published
- [Photographer wants Roosevelt picture on $10 bill](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/photographer-wants-roosevelt-picture-on-10-bill/) - This photo from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was taken in October 1959 at a stop in Livingston, N.J. by photographer Charlotte Kapp. Charlotte Kapp has four letters on Eleanor Roosevelt's stationary and the original, autographed photo she shot of the former first lady in 1959. Now the
- [After 77 years Kindertransport refugeespeaks of Sir Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/2016/01/after-77-years-kindertransport-refugeespeaks-of-sir-nicholas-winton/) - Susie Lind speaking with Natasha Kaplinsky Susie Lind was one of 669 children rescued by the man dubbed the British Schindler – escaping on the penultimate train out of Czechoslovakia in May 1939. But the 91-year-old had not spoken in detail about her experiences for nearly eighty years, eventually doing so last year in response
- [Government Defeated Over Child Refugee Plan](https://kindertransport.org/2016/03/government-defeated-over-child-refugee-plan/) - Parliament The Government will have to take in 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian child refugees after Lords agreed a plan put forward by a Labour peer rescued from the Nazis nearly 80 years ago. The House of Lords this afternoon backed an amendment from Alf Dubs calling on the Government to accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees who
- [Family life: Kindertransport boys in London in 1939](https://kindertransport.org/2016/10/family-life-kindertransport-boys-in-london-in-1939/) - Hans, centre, with cheeky grin and spotty tie, and his brother Wolfgang, standing second from left. Snapshot: My father with other Kindertransport boys These boys were photographed in 1939 in the garden of 47 Lytton Grove, Putney, in south London. At the centre of the group with a cheeky grin, side-parting and spotty tie is
- [Anti-racists in Britain demand child refugees are let in](https://kindertransport.org/2016/10/anti-racists-in-britain-demand-child-refugees-are-let-in/) - Lord Dubs (left) and Professor Leslie Brent (right) (Pic: Guy Smallman) Two men who came to Britain as child refugees in the 1930s spoke out for the refugee children of today at London Liverpool Street last night Friday. Labour lord Alf Dubs and Professor Leslie Brent came as part of the “Kindertransport” trains fleeing the
- [What My Mother Risked on Kristallnacht](https://kindertransport.org/2016/11/what-my-mother-risked-on-kristallnacht/) - Courtesy Rachel Rubin Green What is it in life that inspires or compels each of us to tell our stories? Is it the realization that we, too, have lived important historical events? Or is it something much more personal? And if we have an important story that we have kept hidden for a time, what
- [Holocaust Author and Lecturer Anne Lehmann Fox Passes Away at 90](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/holocaust-author-and-lecturer-anne-lehmann-fox-passes-away-at-90/) - Anne Lehmann Fox. Photo courtesy of Julian Fox At 12 years old, longtime KTA member Anne Fox was sent to England, where her brother had gone a year before, via the Kindertransport. Her experience growing up in Nazi Germany and being separated from her parents, whom she never saw again, served as inspiration for her
- [Emotional Kindertransport Exhibition By C&G Partners](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/emotional-kindertransport-exhibition-by-cg-partners/) - Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War runs through May 24, 2019 at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Multi-specialty design studio C&G Partners has created a highly emotional and thought-provoking exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the start of Kindertransport, the humanitarian mission that sought to rescue 10,000 refugee children from
- [Jewish woman who fled Nazis on Kindertransport to be Mayoress of Lewisham](https://kindertransport.org/2018/05/jewish-woman-who-fled-nazis-on-kindertransport-to-be-mayoress-of-lewisham/) - Liane Segal with Damien Egan Longstanding campaigner against racism and anti-Semitism, Liane Segal, 86, dubbed an ' inspirational figure' by outgoing mayor. This week Segal said she was “honoured” to be Mayoress, adding: “Lewisham is stronger because of our history in welcoming residents from all corners of the world. I hope that by sharing my
- [Holocaust survivor looks back on the night her life shattered](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/holocaust-survivor-looks-back-on-the-night-her-life-shattered/) - Ruth Zimbler, 90, was just 10 years old when Nazis invaded her hometown of Vienna, Austria. Tamara Beckwith/NY Post Then a 10-year-old in Vienna, Ruth Zimbler remembers standing outside her home with her brother and an older relative and watching the family’s synagogue burn to the ground. “We couldn’t have known it at the time,
- [Reflections on the Occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Kristallnacht](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/reflections-on-the-occasion-of-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-kristallnacht/) - S Franklin Spira, with his mother, in an undated photo Today is the 80th anniversary of the Novemberpogrome, or Kristallnacht. I was a 14 year-old boy then and my parents and I never thought of emigrating until the Kristallnacht, even though Jews were gradually being deprived of their rights before then. At that point, it
- [A Toy Monkey That Escaped Nazi Germany And Reunited A Family](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/a-toy-monkey-that-escaped-nazi-germany-and-reunited-a-family/) - Gert Berliner, 94, tied the little stuffed monkey to his bicycle when he was a child in Berlin. Claire Harbage/NPR The monkey's fur is worn away. It's nearly a century old. A well-loved toy, it is barely 4 inches tall. It was packed away for long voyages, on an escape from Nazi Germany, to Sweden
- [Kindertransport–Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war/) - Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War will be on view until May 24, 2019. Nov. 26 several hundred people braved the rain to attend the opening reception of Kindertransport - Rescuing Children on the Brink of War. YU Museum, with the Leo Baeck Institute, has collected dozens of artifacts, ranging from teddy
- [Kindertransport: Pupils re-enact emotional journey to mark 80th anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/kindertransport-pupils-re-enact-emotional-journey-to-mark-80th-anniversary/) - Children re-enact the Kindertransport journey 80 years on. Credit: ITV News Anglia Schoolchildren across the region have been retracing the emotional journey of thousands of young refugees to mark the anniversary of the Kindertransport. Eighty years ago, the first Jewish children to flee the Nazis started arriving by ferry at Harwich in Essex. To mark
- [Fit, bright, not too Jewish - Kindertransport policy](https://kindertransport.org/2019/04/fit-bright-not-too-jewish-kindertransport-policy/) - Children were admitted on the basis they were easy to 'Anglicise', researchers say. Children seeking sanctuary in Britain before the Holocaust were refused the lifeline of the Kindertransport if they were thought to have disabilities or looked too Jewish, say researchers.
- [Tale Of Children Displaced By Nazis Comes To Westfield](https://kindertransport.org/2019/04/tale-of-children-displaced-by-nazis-comes-to-westfield/) - (Photo courtesy of ArtsPower) 'My Heart in a Suitcase' will be performed at Thomas Edison and Roosevelt Intermediate Schools Tuesday. While every student in America learns about World War II, not many people remember the Kindertransport. Not many know that in 1938, as the Nazi rise to power began to spell a darker and darker
- [Olga’s Legacy](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/olgas-legacy/) - Olga Bergmann Gabanyi Grilli (Photo provided by Richard Grilli) There are many stories of Holocaust survivor descendants who are alive today only because the tenuous threads between life and death were not broken... The legacy of Olga Bergmann Gabanyi Grilli and her family is such a story. A story of tenuous threads, chance encounters and
- [Kindheit in der NS-Zeit: Flucht von Innsbruck nach England](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/kindheit-in-der-ns-zeit-flucht-von-innsbruck-nach-england/) - Der 83-jährige Mark Burin erzählt seine Geschichte – sie handelt von Flucht, Trauer, Schmerz, aber auch glücklichen Momenten.© Pfarrhofer Wien –Mark wirkt für seine 83 Jahre noch topfit. Ob er Hunger habe, wird er gefragt. Mark braucht nichts, er habe sich seit gestern durch die österreichische Küche gegessen, sagt er lachend. Er und weitere jüdische
- [Kindertransport refugee and teacher awarded honorary doctorate](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/kindertransport-refugee-and-teacher-awarded-honorary-doctorate/) - Dr Christopher Stephens, Head of Southlands College, Vera Schaufeld and, Professor Jean-Noël Ezingeard, Vice Chancellor of the University of Roehampton A London university has awarded an honorary doctorate to a former Brent teacher who came to the UK on the Kindertransport and later established the Holocaust Centre and Museum.
- [Britain remembers the Kindertransport but...](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/britain-remembers-the-kindertransport-but/) - Frank Meisler’s The Arrival. Amy Williams is in danger of forgetting its lessons Reports in the UK press on September 1 revealed plans by the home secretary to end the current migration system which reunites refugee children with their families living in Britain in the event of a no-deal Brexit. If legal routes to family
- [Tributes to immunologist Leslie Brent, 94, who arrived on first Kindertrans](https://kindertransport.org/2019/12/tributes-to-immunologist-leslie-brent-94-who-arrived-on-first-kindertrans/) - Association of Jewish Refugees is 'deeply saddened' by the passing of Leslie Brent Professor Emeritus at the University of London came to Britain to escape Nazi Germany and spoke about his experience of Kristallnacht
- [Sir Nicholas Winton: Google Doodle marks birthday of ‘Britain’s Schindler’](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/sir-nicholas-winton-google-doodle-marks-birthday-of-britains-schindler/) - Nicholas Winton's 111th Birthday The Google Doodle on 19 May marks what would have been the 111th birthday of Sir Nicholas Winton, who single-handedly saved 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust. Five years after his death in 2015, Google marked Sir Winton’s 19 May birthday with a Doodle showing children at a train station to
- [Continuing the legacy of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/09/continuing-the-legacy-of-kindertransport/) - The author, her husband, and Pricila, photo by Rachel Rubin Green In July 2019, my husband Norm and I joined several members of the KTA on a commemorative tour of Europe for the 80th anniversary of Kindertransport... One indelible lesson from the trip was that many more European Jews, children and adults could have been
- [Still in Love](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/still-in-love-2/) - A Kindertransport boy and his loving wife have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Hermi Rothman arrived in England as a Kindertransport refugee in 1939 and was placed at Gwrych Castle in North Wales, which made headlines this year when ITV’s I’m A Celebrity was filmed at the location. As soon as he was old enough,
- [Tributes paid to two Kindertransport refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/tributes-paid-to-two-kindertransport-refugees-2/) - Heartfelt tributes have been paid to two Kindertransport refugees, Walter Kammerling and Marc Schatzberger, who have died in their mid-90s. Holocaust educators remembered the Vienna-born survivors, reflecting on their contributions to teaching about the Shoah and the trauma they went through, escaping after Kristallnacht.
- [Kindertransport news](https://kindertransport.org/2021/10/kindertransport-news/) - “The Story is Here” exhibit ends with tributes to the present-day families and passed-down creative passions of the Minnesotan Kindertransport
- [‘Learning my father’s Shoah testimony years later was almost cathartic’](https://kindertransport.org/2021/10/learning-my-fathers-shoah-testimony-years-later-was-almost-cathartic/) - The problem of communicating between generations was tackled in a concluding discussion at the AJR conference. Danny Kalman, a trustee of the AJR, who chaired the session, is the son of a Kindertransport man from Frankfurt who arrived in Britain in 1939. But as he later made clear, for years he never spoke about his
- [Benno Black](https://kindertransport.org/2021/10/benno-black/) - Black was one of 10,000 children evacuated to Britain and other countries during the “Kindertransport,” an effort to save Jewish children from what became the Holocaust. After fleeing Germany on a train in 1939, Black was taken in by a family in England. Later he joined the British Army and went on to fight the
- [The precious items that tell the real story of the Kindertransport children](https://kindertransport.org/2021/10/the-precious-items-that-tell-the-real-story-of-the-kindertransport-children/) - An array of priceless belongings tell the story of the Kindertransport at the IWM’s new £30 million Second World War and the Holocaust Galleries in London. They are three times the size of the museum’s award-winning First World War Galleries, span two floors and see IWM become the first museum in the world to house
- [Britain rescued 10,000 Jewish children](https://kindertransport.org/2021/10/britain-rescued-10000-jewish-children/) - Whenever I used to think of the kindertransport it was with gratitude to the organizers in Europe and Britain. I never gave much thought to the trauma the children and their parents must have gone through. I never stopped to imagine how my mother and her sisters felt having to leave their mother knowing that
- [Stories of Kindertransport survivors brought to life in free school program](https://kindertransport.org/2021/10/stories-of-kindertransport-survivors-brought-to-life-in-free-school-program/) - A FREE educational programme, which highlights Harwich’s pivotal role in the Kindertransport rescue, is being offered to schools across the country. The lesson plan, which was produced by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and the Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust, will encourage students to learn more about the mission which rescued 10,000 children from
- [Ein Karussell mit Widerstand](https://kindertransport.org/2021/09/ein-karussell-mit-widerstand/) - Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine on the new Kindertransport memorial and exhibit opening in Frankfurt.
- [Teen refugees fleeing the Nazis found 'real love story' at Gwrych Castle](https://kindertransport.org/2021/09/teen-refugees-fleeing-the-nazis-found-real-love-story-at-gwrych-castle/) - The children arrived at the castle in Abergele in 1939 as part of the 10,000 Jewish refugees who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied countries and at the time, only refugees aged 17 or under were allowed into Britain. Among those were teenagers Herthel and Gerhard, who met at the castle at age 14 before
- [Erika Schulhof Rybeck](https://kindertransport.org/2021/09/erika-schulhof-rybeck/) - Erika’s father was a decorated First World War veteran who, along with his wife, had converted from Judaism to Catholicism. Her parents shielded Erika from her Jewish ancestry and sent her to a convent school. Then, in May 1939, Erika’s parents told her the family were emigrating but that she would have to go in
- [Exhibit honors humanity in the face of horror](https://kindertransport.org/2021/09/exhibit-honors-humanity-in-the-face-of-horror/) - The exhibit "Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the Brink of War" (a project of the Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute) tells the story. The American Swedish Institute (ASI) is hosting the exhibit through October in partnership with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas and the Greenberg Family Fund
- [London Underground: The beautiful but tragic story behind the statue](https://kindertransport.org/2021/09/london-underground-the-beautiful-but-tragic-story-behind-the-statue/) - Right within the forecourt of Liverpool Street station, parked in front of the entrance, stands a statue of five young children. Their expressions- pensive, confused, wonderstruck- are as immortalised in bronze as the teddy bear the youngest girl is clutching. The Arrival, by artist Frank Meisler, is a memorial to the 10,000 Jewish children that
- [From Kindertransport to the White House](https://kindertransport.org/2021/08/from-kindertransport-to-the-white-house/) - For nearly four decades, Hella Pick, the doyenne of British diplomatic correspondents, had a front-row seat at the events that shaped the postwar age. But in her newly published memoirs, “Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life,” the pioneering female reporter reveals her constant and continuing struggle with feelings of insecurity about her
- [Hi-de-Hi! fans display memorabilia for first time](https://kindertransport.org/2021/08/hi-de-hi-fans-display-memorabilia-for-first-time/) - The Hi-de-Hi! display is part of an exhibition showcasing the history of the Warners holiday camp at Dovercourt that hosted thousands of kindertransport children who fled the Nazis to Britain and was transformed into a military base during World War Two.
- [‘Kindertransport’ at the American Swedish Institute](https://kindertransport.org/2021/08/kindertransport-at-the-american-swedish-institute/) - An exhibition at the American Swedish Institute – actually two exhibitions, but related – asks us to look back more than 80 years to another time when children were separated from their parents, who believed they had no choice but to let them go.
- [OPINION: Time to follow my dad’s example](https://kindertransport.org/2021/08/opinion-time-to-follow-my-dads-example/) - Barbara Winton, daughter of the late Sir Nicholas Winton who organised the Kindertransport, draws parallels between the plight of Afghan refugees and those fleeing the Nazis
- [Kindertransport - when Yorkshire banded together to bring child refugees to](https://kindertransport.org/2021/09/kindertransport-when-yorkshire-banded-together-to-bring-child-refugees-to/) - In 1989, a couple of dozen people assembled at the Carlton Hotel in Bradford. Many had not seen each other for half a century. They had all been invited by Albert Waxman, a textile magnate. Exactly 50 years before their gathering, shortly before the Second World War, they had all met as child refugees in
- [Bid for Kindertransport memorial in Essex town](https://kindertransport.org/2021/08/bid-for-kindertransport-memorial-in-essex-town/) - A Kindertransport memorial is set to be erected in the Essex port town of Harwich to commemorate the child refugees who came to the town. The planned statue, which is in construction by artist Ian Wolter, will show five children descending from a ship’s gangplank. Also planned is a town trail, audio bench and new
- [Anita Hoffer](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/anita-hoffer/) - Born in Berlin, Germany on June 3rd 1933 and died at the age of 88 in Boca Raton, FL. Anita immigrated to the US after escaping the Holocaust and a few years in England. Anita was raised by her grandparents in Vineland, NJ. Anita had been saved by the kindertransport and found her connection when
- [Karey Kirkpatrick to direct Irish/Austrian co-production Faraway Home](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/karey-kirkpatrick-to-direct-irish-austrian-co-production-faraway-home/) - Faraway Home is a tragic yet beautiful story, the journey of two young Jewish children sent by their parents away from Nazi-occupied Austria during World War Two on the Kindertransport to London, where they finally end up at a Jewish refugee farm in Northern Ireland. Based on true events, it is a story that finds
- [American Swedish Institute’s Kindertransport Exhibition](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/american-swedish-institutes-kindertransport-exhibition/) - A wall of blank tags fills the side of the Osher Gallery at the American Swedish Institute, each one representing the tag worn by a child who was transported out of Nazi-occupied territory before World War II. It’s half of the American Swedish Institute’s two-part exhibition on the most successful organized effort to rescue Jewish
- [Minnesota's last survivor offers lesson in history](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/minnesotas-last-survivor-offers-lesson-in-history/) - Benno Black is the last known person in Minnesota who participated in the kindertransport. In July 1939, he boarded a train with other Jewish children bound for England, carrying a leather suitcase with his school notebook, pressed flowers from his mother, family photos and a few other mementos. He was 13. Eighty-two years later, the
- [Oswestry Kindertransport refugee and IT entrepreneur](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/oswestry-kindertransport-refugee-and-it-entrepreneur/) - A Kindertransport refugee who was educated in Shropshire and went on to become a ground-breaking global IT entrepreneur is set to be honoured. Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley Companion of Honour will return to Oswestry on August 26 to unveil a blue plaque commemorating her outstanding contribution to British life and formative years in Oswestry. Dame
- [Kindertransport exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/2021/08/kindertransport-exhibit/) - The long wall at the back of the gallery is covered with blank cardboard tags. They’re the same size as tags pinned to more than 10,000 Jewish children who escaped Nazi Germany through the Kindertransport. The image is one piece in the “Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” exhibit that runs through
- [Dr. Ruth trying to get play about her life to Broadway](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/dr-ruth-trying-to-get-play-about-her-life-to-broadway/) - Famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is trying to get a one-woman show about her life, “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” to Broadway. The play follows Westheimer’s life from her childhood as part of a Kindertransport in 1939, which brought German children to an orphanage in Switzerland, through her move to the States and meteoric rise to
- [I remember the Gestapo arriving at my house and taking my mother away](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/i-remember-the-gestapo-arriving-at-my-house-and-taking-my-mother-away/) - From the kindertransports to the arms of JFK, meet the pioneering writer, Hella Pick, that blazed a trail few could follow (subscription required)
- [Livermore Shakespeare Festival presenting live staged reading](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/livermore-shakespeare-festival-presenting-live-staged-reading/) - Members of Livermore Shakespeare Festival (LSF) will reopen the doors for a staged reading of Diane Samuel's "Kindertransport" at 7 p.m. July 22. "Kindertransport" follows the story of fictional Eva Schlessinger, who is transported away from her parents in Germany to live with a foster family in England, with events based on real life stories
- [Lucy Lang](https://kindertransport.org/2021/07/lucy-lang/) - Born in Vienna, Austria, Lucy Lang travelled on the Kindertransport, with her sister, Erica Jesselson. She was featured in “Kindertransport–Rescuing Children on the Brink of War,” a 2018 exhibition, and spoke at the opening. She was also a participant in Names, Not Numbers, a Holocaust documentary film project in which high school students interview survivors
- [Harwich Kindertransport memorial](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/harwich-kindertransport-memorial/) - A FUNDRAISING effort towards the installation of a poignant stature to help mark Harwich’s role in the Kindertransport rescue has hit a milestone amount of money. A bronze statue is being created to commemorate the child refugees who escaped Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror in parts of Europe ahead of the Second World War.
- [Free Online Course for educators on Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/free-online-course-for-educators-on-kindertransport/) - The Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton (UK) is running a free course on the Kindertransport. It is designed for educators but may be of interest to others. The course will run over 3 weeks (5-23 July) with a mixture of asynchronous and synchronous activities, participants will also have access to an online exhibition
- [My Mother's Escape to Freedom on the Kindertransport"](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/my-mothers-escape-to-freedom-on-the-kindertransport/) - Presented by Linda Mason Waldroup, whose mother was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K. in 1939.Doris Mason, who was born Doris Franzelore Goldschmidt in Germany in 1930, was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K.
- [Testimony by Kindertransport and Child Survivor Margot Lobree](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/testimony-by-kindertransport-and-child-survivor-margot-lobree/) - he Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the public to an online program with Margot Lobree, who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to the UK in April 1939. The session will be moderated by Appalachian State professor Chris Patti, and will take place on Thurs., July 22, from 9:00 - 11:00 am
- [Bea Green, Kindertransport Survivor Honored with MBE](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/bea-green-kindertransport-survivor-honored-with-mbe/) - Congratulations to Bea Green, Kindertransport Survivor,friend of the KTA, on her MBE!
- [Statue of unsung hero seen for the first time](https://kindertransport.org/2021/05/statue-of-unsung-hero-seen-for-the-first-time/) - Trevor Chadwick, nicknamed the 'Purbeck Schindler', helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.
- [Reform Judaism says government’s immigration plans breach international law](https://kindertransport.org/2021/05/reform-judaism-says-governments-immigration-plans-breach-international-law/) - Reform Judaism evoked [sic] the Kindertransport as it warned that the Home Office’s tougher new immigration plans would breach international law. “The Reform Movement’s argument is heartfelt because under the Home Office proposals Jewish refugees who fled to the UK from mainland Europe in the 1930s, including the Kindertransport, would in 2021 not be protected,”
- [Dr. Ruth psyched to see a new Hamptons play on her life](https://kindertransport.org/2021/05/dr-ruth-psyched-to-see-a-new-hamptons-play-on-her-life/) - Dr. Ruth, who was born in Germany, was part of a Kindertransport in 1939. She considers herself an “orphan of the Holocaust,” not a “survivor,” explaining, “I was not in a camp, but my family did not survive.” Dr. Ruth says she considers the play — and also a Hulu documentary called “Ask Dr. Ruth”
- [Lore Segal to be inducted in NY State Writers Hall of Fame](https://kindertransport.org/2021/06/lore-segal-to-be-inducted-in-ny-state-writers-hall-of-fame/) - Lore Segal, Kindertransport Survivor and longtime KTA member who was a speaker at the very first KTA conference at the Nevele Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York State in November 1990, is to be inducted into the NY State Writers Hall of Fame on June 8! tickets here: https://bit.ly/3wY35od
- [Popular events in Harwich given extra funding boost](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/popular-events-in-harwich-given-extra-funding-boost/) - TOWN favourite events have been boosted by grants. Harwich Kindertransport Memorial Project was awarded £1,000 to help keep up the important work of commemorating the town’s crucial role in caring for the evacuated children during World War II. "Harwich's role in the Kindertransport is something we should be very proud of and Harwich Town Council
- [Holocaust Survivor Recounts Escape On Yom Hashoa](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/holocaust-survivor-recounts-escape-on-yom-hashoa/) - Joe Hess, who was born in 1932, is a survivor. He escaped Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport at the young age of 6 after being separated from his parents. Hess, who now lives at the Village at Northridge Senior Living Facility, said his journey took him from Germany to London, and ultimately the United States.
- [Kindertransport Association donates to TACT](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/kindertransport-association-donates-to-tact/) - The KTA has a threefold mission: To Connect Kindertransport Survivors and the next generations, to Educate about the Kindertransport and Holocaust History, and to Support children at risk today. The funds will go towards ensuring that the unaccompanied asylum seeking children in our care are fully supported and appropriately matched with knowledgeable, well-trained and compassionate
- [Dr. Ruth given honorary doctorate](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/dr-ruth-given-honorary-doctorate/) - Born in Germany into a religious Jewish household in 1928, Westheimer was sent to Switzerland on the Kindertransport at age 10. Westheimer became a household name after she launched her radio show in 1980.
- ['Vitality of Suffolk and Essex cultural life' shown in Great British Railwa](https://kindertransport.org/2021/05/vitality-of-suffolk-and-essex-cultural-life-shown-in-great-british-railwa/) - BBC's Great Railway Journeys have highlighted "the vitality of cultural life" in Suffolk and north Essex in its latest series. The railway history show sees Michael Portillo travel from Saxmundham down to Dedham. Mr Portillo takes the Great Anglia service to Ipswich so he can change for Felixstowe and catch the ferry to Harwich, and
- [The scars of Kindertransport children](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/the-scars-of-kindertransport-children/) - “Many children who went to foster families in Britain were treated as little more than domestics,” notes Dr. Elisheva van der Hal, a psychotherapist. “Most of the kinder lost their entire family. Many suffered in the foster homes,” she continues, adding that it also took some time for the authorities to extend sorely needed help
- [The Push to Vaccinate 20,000 Holocaust Survivors in New York](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/the-push-to-vaccinate-20000-holocaust-survivors-in-new-york/) - A year spent hiding at home from the coronavirus has given Anne Bertolino, 96, a lot of time to dwell on the past: the anti-Semitic abuse she suffered on the streets of Hamburg as a child; the grandparents who pushed for her and her sister to leave the country for their own safety; and her
- [Jewish cartoonists who fled the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/jewish-cartoonists-who-fled-the-nazis/) - A new exhibition in New York features artworks by three Jewish artists who fled Vienna during the Anschluss. The artists are Lily Renée, Bil Spira and Paul Peter Porges, whose comic books, drawings, cartoons and caricatures are on view Lily Renée, an artist born in 1921 who celebrates her 100th birthday this year, got out
- [Kindertransport organizer’s kin stresses helping others](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/kindertransport-organizers-kin-stresses-helping-others/) - Barbara Winton, the daughter of Czech and Slovak Kindertransport organizer Sir Nicholas Winton, urged a virtual crowd of 285 to help others in need like her father did during the Jewish Federation of Cleveland and Kol Israel Foundation’s annual Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah event April 7.
- [Holocaust survivor recounts leaving her family](https://kindertransport.org/2021/04/holocaust-survivor-recounts-leaving-her-family/) - On this Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, 98-year-old survivor Anita Weisbord recounted the painful decision her mother made to send Anita at age 16 by herself to England.
- [Kindertransport survivor shares her story](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/kindertransport-survivor-shares-her-story/) - Ruth Barnett MBE, a former teacher and psychotherapist, was evacuated from Berlin at the age of four in 1939, with her elder brother, leaving her parents behind. Her brother Martin and she spent their early years moving around the south of England, placed in several foster families and a boarding school for bombed-out children during
- [‘All learning together, no matter where we are in the world’](https://kindertransport.org/2021/03/all-learning-together-no-matter-where-we-are-in-the-world/) - World history teacher Faith Shotts-Flikkema led a unit this year focused on the Kindertransport, a roughly nine-month effort that rescued and relocated from Germany to the United Kingdom 10,000 mostly Jewish children before the start of World War II and the Holocaust. Shotts-Flikkema led the unit in collaboration with two other teachers, one in Virginia
- [Turning 100 ‘nothing big’ for this Toronto man](https://kindertransport.org/2021/03/turning-100-nothing-big-for-this-toronto-man/) - John Carson, then known as Hans Walfried, was evacuated from Berlin to England as part of the Kindertransport. Carson, at 17, was technically too old for the Kindertransport, so his age was recorded as 15. His name was changed and he left Germany on Dec. 1, 1938. After the war, Carson got married and worked
- [Tributes to ‘wonderful, jovial’ kinder who inspired survivors to make aliya](https://kindertransport.org/2021/03/tributes-to-wonderful-jovial-kinder-who-inspired-survivors-to-make-aliya/) - Heartfelt tributes have been paid to a remarkable kindertransport refugee who supported survivors of Belsen. Herbert Haberberg, 96, who used his Yiddish to convince destitute victims of the Nazis to move to the young Jewish state. Herbert was advised by World Jewish Relief that he was more useful to them in Germany than Israel, and
- [Yom Hashoah to feature Kindertransport founder’s daughter](https://kindertransport.org/2021/03/yom-hashoah-to-feature-kindertransport-founders-daughter/) - The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will spotlight Barbara Winton, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis through his organization of the Czech and Slovak Kindertransport, during its annual Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah event from 7 to 8 p.m. April 7. This year’s Holocaust remembrance event will function under the
- [Tributes paid to two Kindertransport refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/tributes-paid-to-two-kindertransport-refugees/) - Heartfelt tributes have been paid to two Kindertransport refugees, Walter Kammerling and Marc Schatzberger, who have died in their mid-90s. Holocaust educators remembered the Vienna-born survivors, reflecting on their contributions to teaching about the Shoah and the trauma they went through, escaping after Kristallnacht.
- [Kindertransport refugee Walter Kammerling](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/kindertransport-refugee-walter-kammerling/) - Walter Kammerling was among 10,000 Jewish children who fled occupied Europe through the Kindertransport scheme. His sister, mother and father all died at Auschwitz. Over years of speaking at local schools, Mr Kammerling told thousands of children how he was put on a Kindertransport train in his native Vienna in December 1938, at the age
- [A Remarkable Woman: Chaye Sara Jakobovits](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/a-remarkable-woman-chaye-sara-jakobovits/) - Her ordeal began on December 1st, 1938, the day that ten year old Sessy was separated from her beloved mother. It was also the last day that she would ever see her, as her train slowly departed Berlin toward the groups trek to England. This was the first train of the Kindertransport, a rescue mission
- [Francis Deutsch](https://kindertransport.org/2021/02/francis-deutsch/) - Francis came to the UK from Austria on the Kindertransport at the age of 13, arriving in Harwich, Essex, speaking no English. At the age of 21, he went back to wartorn Europe for two years to help with the resettlement of German refugees in the International Voluntary Service. He was an outstanding radical lawyer
- [My grandma's story of escape from Nazi-occupied Austria](https://kindertransport.org/2021/01/my-grandmas-story-of-escape-from-nazi-occupied-austria/) - Uncle Richard’s arrest changed everything. A Viennese banker, he had been deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1938, for the crime of being a Jew. Three weeks after Richard’s arrest, his niece, my grandmother, a nine-year-old girl named Inge Rubner, boarded a Kindertransport west-bound to London, a journey that would save her life. She
- [The Repair Shop](https://kindertransport.org/2021/01/the-repair-shop/) - The widow of a Holocaust survivor sobs on The Repair Shop as the Kindertransport box belonging to her now late husband is restored.
- [He Saved 669 Children From Nazis — A New Book Tells His Story To Kids](https://kindertransport.org/2021/01/he-saved-669-children-from-nazis-a-new-book-tells-his-story-to-kids/) - NPR Morning Edition: How old should kids be when they start learning about the Holocaust? While many educators believe the appropriate age is 10, a new book by Caldecott honoree and MacArthur fellow Peter Sís is recommended for children ages 6 to 9. Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children
- [The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2021/01/the-berlin-shadow-living-with-the-ghosts-of-the-kindertransport/) - Book by Jonathan Lichtenstein (Little, Brown Spark, nonfiction, on sale Dec. 15) What it’s about: A father and son reconnect and repair their relationship by reliving the elder’s traumatizing experience as a child refugee on the Kindertransport.
- [Statue to mark Harwich's role in the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/statue-to-mark-harwichs-role-in-the-kindertransport/) - Plans are in the pipeline to create a bronze statue which would commemorate the child refugees who escaped Adolph Hitler’s reign of terror in parts of Europe ahead of the Second World War. Hundreds of the children, most of whom were Jewish, arrived in Harwich on December 2, 1938. To remember the town's efforts in
- [Very lucky, says 92-year-old Sheffield man](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/very-lucky-says-92-year-old-sheffield-man/) - The 92-year-old Bolsterstone man was born in 1928 into a family of wealthy German Jewish horse breeders. Then, as the continent of Europe hurtled towards the horrors of World War Two, he survived Kristallnacht to escape Germany on the Kindertransport, arriving in Sheffield in 1939. Later he was evacuated to a Nottinghamshire farm where he
- [Daughter of renowned sculptor Frank Meisler](https://kindertransport.org/2021/01/daughter-of-renowned-sculptor-frank-meisler/) - Designer of Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station died in 2018, and now his daughter Marit looks to the challenge of bringing 'a young, new vision' to his legacy
- [Reunion of families who sheltered Kindertransport refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/reunion-of-families-who-sheltered-kindertransport-refugees/) - To mark the anniversary of the Kindertransport project, in which Britain agreed to accept ten thousand unaccompanied refugee children, the vast majority of whom were Jewish, from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939, the AJR (Association of Jewish Refugees) recently held a special zoom meeting. This was hosted by British celebrity Dame Esther
- [Sue Pearson](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/sue-pearson/) - Sue Pearson, who has died aged 92, came to Sheffield from Prague on the Kindertransport in 1939 at the age of 11. Her childhood experiences bred a lifelong commitment to improving the lives of all children. In March 1939, Hitler occupied the remainder of what was then Czechoslovakia. Sue’s secular Jewish parents took the brave
- [Gisela Adamski, Holocaust survivor and educator who lived in West Hartford,](https://kindertransport.org/2020/11/gisela-adamski-holocaust-survivor-and-educator-who-lived-in-west-hartford/) - The last time that Gisela Adamski shared her story of loss and survival in the Holocaust was this past June, on a virtual call with Newtown High School history students. Addressing a class that included some students who had been second graders during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, Adamski spoke about how
- [I’m a Celebrity castle's secret role in the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/11/im-a-celebrity-castles-secret-role-in-the-kindertransport/) - (another castle story!) For a group of pampered celebrities, it is a place of torture created for our entertainment; there are rats, creepy crawlies, a plumbing system that barely works, no electricity and stone hard beds. But 80 years ago, for 200 Jewish children, Gwrych Castle in Wales was a salvation from almost certain death
- [Bertha Leverton](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/bertha-leverton/) - Founder of Reunion of Kindertransport group dedicated her life to bringing families of Jewish refugees back together.
- [Survivor of Nazi genocide went on to become acclaimed geneticist at UW-Madi](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/survivor-of-nazi-genocide-went-on-to-become-acclaimed-geneticist-at-uw-madi/) - Alongtime Madison professor who as an 8-year-old escaped the Nazis’ tightening grip on Czechoslovakia by way of a program known as Kindertransport is being remembered this week as a groundbreaking scientist with a love of opera who shared the story of her early life with thousands of students. Renata Laxova died early Monday after a
- [Kindertransport anniversary: Remembering the children](https://kindertransport.org/2020/12/kindertransport-anniversary-remembering-the-children/) - This month marks the 82nd anniversary of the Kindertransport’s arrival into Harwich. The historic train carried 200 children from a Jewish orphanage near Berlin to Harwich. Overall, the huge rescue saw about 10,000 children travel to the safety of Britain to save them from the Holocaust.
- [Kindertransport refugee had ‘immeasurable’ impact on Shoah education](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/kindertransport-refugee-had-immeasurable-impact-on-shoah-education/) - Survivor Ingrid Wuga, who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport at 15 and was honoured by the Queen last year for her services to Shoah education, died in Glasgow at 96. The Dortmund-born survivor fled in June 1939 and was later joined in England by her parents. Mrs Wuga met her husband Henry, a fellow
- [Lord Dubs helps inflict defeats on ‘shabby’ immigration legislation](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/lord-dubs-helps-inflict-defeats-on-shabby-immigration-legislation/) - The House of Lords demanded on Monday a series of changes to the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill, including to ensure continued help for unaccompanied child refugees.
- [Abraham Grossman](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/abraham-grossman/) - When Abraham Grossman was a teenager, he fled his native Germany on what came to be known as the kindertransport, a rescue effort that brought about 10,000 Jewish children fleeing the Nazis to England. He returned just a few years later, but by then he was as a proud fighter in the British Army’s Jewish
- [Kristallnacht was the beginning of the end](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/kristallnacht-was-the-beginning-of-the-end/) - Ruth Zimbler, a Kristallnacht Holocaust Survivor reflection on how that day changed her life forever. On December 10th (a month after Kristallnacht), Ruth and her 6-year-old brother were sent on the kindertransport to Holland...Her message is,"We have to support one another and ensure that we teach the message of the Holocaust and motivate people to
- [Gwyrch Castle was once home for Kindertransport refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2020/11/gwyrch-castle-was-once-home-for-kindertransport-refugees/) - The estate in Abergele, north Wales, features in the new series of the ITV reality show, but in 1939 it was also a safe haven for 96-year-old Henry Glanz and 200 other children
- [Coming home to the holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/coming-home-to-the-holocaust-2/) - My mother, Anita Heufeld, was one of 10,000 rescued by the Central British Fund for German Jewry. Just short of her 14th birthday, she became an unaccompanied minor, fleeing for safe haven in England. Her parents and most of her extended family remained behind and were killed. My trip to Fischach was instigated when the
- [Bronze statue honouring children saved from Nazi Europe could be displayed](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/bronze-statue-honouring-children-saved-from-nazi-europe-could-be-displayed/) - A bronze statue honouring children saved from Nazi Europe could be displayed in Harwich if plans are approved.
- [Holocaust survivor’s 100th birthday](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/holocaust-survivors-100th-birthday/) - Nussbaum was born Ruth Rozanski in Offenbach, Germany on Sept. 30, 1920. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938, her mother managed to get her sister out of Germany on the Kindertransport to England. However, Nussbaum was past the 17-year age limit for the Kindertransport, so with the aid of HIAS( (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant
- [Daughter Of Famed Israeli Sculptor](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/daughter-of-famed-israeli-sculptor/) - Born in 1925 in Danzig, Frank Meisler was rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe country and taken on the Kindertransport to England where he was raised by his aunt. Some of Meisler’s most famous European monuments (“The Departure,” Trains to Life – Trains to Death,” “The Final Parting,” and “Channel Crossing to Life”) are life-size tributes to
- [The Homing Instinct  Ah, Vienna, the city of my youth](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/the-homing-instinct-ah-vienna-the-city-of-my-youth/) - KTA member Josef Eisinger writes: The pandemic that engulfs us has dislocated all of our lives dramatically, often tragically—but for some among us, the obligatory isolation has been a boon for musing. Among the weighty matters I muse upon is my complicated bond to the city of Vienna, a place that I last visited just
- [Sir David Attenborough: My 'sisters' from the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/09/sir-david-attenborough-my-sisters-from-the-kindertransport/) - Sir David Attenborough has spoken about the sisters from Berlin his family took in after they had fled Nazi Germany through the Kindertransport. The sisters, Irene and Helga Bejach, arrived in the UK just before war broke out. Their father was head of public health for a Berlin district – he was killed in Auschwitz
- [Anthony Hopkins to play Sir Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/2020/09/anthony-hopkins-to-play-sir-nicholas-winton/) - The life of Sir Nicholas Winton, the Kindertransport hero who oversaw the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children, is set to be dramatised in a new Holocaust biopic. One Life will star 82-year-old actor Anthony Hopkins in the leading role alongside Johnny Flynn, 37, who will play the “British Schindler” at an earlier phase of
- [Podcast on Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/09/podcast-on-kindertransport/) - The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) said its ‘Kindertransport: Remembering and Rethinking’ looks at the legacy and contemporary relevance of the trains that carried Jewish children in Nazi-occupied lands to safety. AJR’s documentary podcast series uses its ‘Refugee Voices’ testimony archive, consisting of the recorded life stories of more than 250 Holocaust survivors and refugees,
- [Coming Home to the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2020/10/coming-home-to-the-holocaust/) - In the town hall of Fischach, a village in southern Germany, I am staring at a glass display case holding the detritus of the Jews who once lived here. It is July 2019, eight decades after my mother fled this place as a child. And right in front of me, neatly labeled, are the remains
- [Austria offers citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/austria-offers-citizenship-to-the-descendants-of-jews-who-fled-the-nazis/) - Hannah Lessing, secretary general of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, lobbied to include more descendants – for example, of those who left Austria after the war. She applauded the law, while recognising its limits. “This law is an important step that says Austrian society is finally ready
- [Professors' new book Berlin Shadow is released](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/professors-new-book-berlin-shadow-is-released/) - A new book which sheds light on the experiences of children of Kindertransport and their families has been published.The book, called the Berlin Shadow, reveals how Hans Lichtenstein's experience deeply affected his son, the author's, own childhood and behaviour and shows how the journey helped both process the trauma which was ever-present in their lives.
- [Postcards and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/postcards-and-the-kindertransport/) - This story is built around 50 delicate letters, most written on the back of German period piece postcards: including garden scenes of fairy tales gnomes, elfs, leprechauns, and teddy bears designed for children. The letters were by Max Lichtwitz, a Berlin lawyer, to his six-year-old son Heinz or Heini Lichtwitz, the future Henry Foner. They
- [Lord Dubs calls on UK to be more sympathetic](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/lord-dubs-calls-on-uk-to-be-more-sympathetic/) - The Labour peer, who fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport, called on home secretary to adopt a more welcoming stance towards migrants
- [Revisiting the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/revisiting-the-kindertransport/) - Playwright Jonathan Lichtenstein talks to us about his new book, The Berlin Shadow, which describes how he accompanied his father on a journey back to Berlin, retracing the steps he took in 1939 on the Kindertransport
- [Charlotte Berger Keiderling](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/charlotte-berger-keiderling/) - After her father’s business was appropriated by the authorities, her parents made the heart-wrenching decision to send her on the Kindertransport to England where families had offered their homes to Jewish children fleeing the persecution. She was seven years old. Charlotte never saw her parents again...Only in 2018 did she learn the awful truth that
- [Castle home has a history](https://kindertransport.org/2020/08/castle-home-has-a-history/) - Between 1939 and 1941 up to 200 young Jewish refugees were accommodated at the castle trying to cope with dilapidated buildings, inclement weather and first and foremost with their new lives as refugees. The story of the Kindertransport 1938/39 is often portrayed as a bit of a feelgood story. It is true that over 10,000
- [David Toren, 94, New York, N.Y.](https://kindertransport.org/2020/07/david-toren-94-new-york-n-y/) - David Toren, who fled Poland with other Jewish children, passed away on April 19 as a result of COVID-19. On Kristallnacht, young David watched the destruction. The next morning, his father was imprisoned in Buchenwald. Upon his return, Toren’s father worked to arrange passage for his son on an August 1939 Kindertransport headed to Sweden,
- [For Holocaust Survivor, ‘Hashem Still Has a Plan’](https://kindertransport.org/2020/07/for-holocaust-survivor-hashem-still-has-a-plan/) - Her father was a devout chasid in Vienna who somehow made a lot of money. On a December evening in 1938, weeks after the Kristallnacht torching of Jewish homes and synagogues, her father put her and her two sisters on a bus to catch a train, then a boat that took them to England to
- [Ruth David, 91: War refugee and sprightly speaker on the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/ruth-david-91-war-refugee-and-sprightly-speaker-on-the-holocaust/) - Returning to Fränkisch-Crumbach, the village where she grew up in Hesse, Germany, almost 50 years after she had left for Britain on the Kindertransport, Ruth David saw the window of a house open. “Ruth Oppenheimer, is that you?” someone cried.
- [Fashion label helps battle virus](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/fashion-label-helps-battle-virus/) - News from Australia: A clothing company founded by a Kindertransport survivor is now making gowns and scrubs for use in hospitals and clinics.
- [Holocaust app puts players in shoes of Jewish boy in 1930s Berlin](https://kindertransport.org/2020/06/holocaust-app-puts-players-in-shoes-of-jewish-boy-in-1930s-berlin/) - The core of the game is to serve as an educational tool for students, primarily those aged nine to 11. The developers were helped when crafting the story and game design by survivors and family members of those who went on the Kindertransport during the Holocaust. “They were consulted as part of the process and
- [Holocaust Survivors Continue Gathering—Online](https://kindertransport.org/2020/07/holocaust-survivors-continue-gathering-online/) - Since 1943, German and Austrian Holocaust survivors have gathered in New York City for what is known as the Stammtisch...Marion is an elegant woman. Proudly, she still drives her car, enjoying the independence. She escaped from Berlin in May 1939, at the age of 16. She boarded a Kindertransport.
- [Henry Karplus: 2/9/1926 to 6/24/2020](https://kindertransport.org/2020/07/henry-karplus-2-9-1926-to-6-24-2020/) - Born Heinz Berthold Karplus in Berlin, Germany, to Sigmar Karplus and Rosa (née Anker) Karplus. Henry and his younger sister Hannah Elsa (Shamash) escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 on a Kindertransport train, arriving to safety in England.
- [Holocaust educator and former Ames resident Ruth David succumbs to COVID-19](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/holocaust-educator-and-former-ames-resident-ruth-david-succumbs-to-covid-19/) - Ruth David was 10 when the Kindertransport — which helped 10,000 children escape from Nazi-controlled parts of Europe just before the outbreak of World War II — saved her from what likely would have been death in a concentration camp. She would go on to translate the tragedies of the Holocaust into two books. She
- [Leeds Jewish Housing Association Brings Generations Together](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/leeds-jewish-housing-association-brings-generations-together/) - The 75th anniversary of VE Day was made extra special for 250 older residents of Leeds Jewish Housing Association (LJHA) when they received bumper gift boxes to mark the occasion. One recipient was 94-year-old Gilly Rawson, a Holocaust survivor. At the age of 13, she was one of the Kindertransport children taken from Vienna to
- [Kindertransport: Swanage statue for 'Purbeck Schindler' Trevor Chadwick](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/kindertransport-swanage-statue-for-purbeck-schindler-trevor-chadwick/) - An "unsung hero" who helped save hundreds of children destined for Nazi concentration camps is to be honoured with a statue in his hometown. Trevor Chadwick, dubbed the "Purbeck Schindler", helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 children from Czechoslovakia ahead of World War Two. The Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust is raising £80,000 for a statue
- [Death of refugee from Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/death-of-refugee-from-nazi-germany/) - A WOMAN who escaped from Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport train has died peacefully at the age of 95. Eva Pinthus, a resident of Menston for 60 years, was 14 when she came to the UK in 1939. She was one of thousands of children brought to safety - many would never see their families
- [David Toren, Who Fought to Recover Nazi-Looted Art, Dies at 94](https://kindertransport.org/2020/04/david-toren-who-fought-to-recover-nazi-looted-art-dies-at-94/) - Mr. Toren, who died of the coronavirus, was a patent lawyer who recovered a relative’s stolen painting amid a large cache of works discovered in Germany. David's father managed to squeeze his son, now 14, onto what would prove to be the last Kindertransport evacuation to Sweden before World War II broke out.
- [Holocaust survivor, 96, who fled to Scotland reveals bittersweet memory](https://kindertransport.org/2020/05/holocaust-survivor-96-who-fled-to-scotland-reveals-bittersweet-memory/) - Nuremberg, where Henry grew up, was the epicentre of Nazi power. Henry fled Nuremberg in May 1939 after his mum managed to secure him a place on the Kindertransport. “When we got on the train to head for the Dutch border with all those young children, it was one huge howl from 150 children. I
- [S. Fred Singer, a Leading Climate Change Contrarian, Dies at 95](https://kindertransport.org/2020/04/s-fred-singer-a-leading-climate-change-contrarian-dies-at-95/) - Siegfried Fred Singer was born on Sept. 27, 1924, in Vienna to Joseph Singer, a jeweler, and his wife, Anna, according to the 2004 book “Shapers of the Great Debate on Conservation: A Biographical Dictionary.” His family fled the Nazis, sending him to England through the kindertransport program. He made his way to the United
- [Tributes paid to UK woman who escaped Nazi Germany in 1939](https://kindertransport.org/2020/04/tributes-paid-to-uk-woman-who-escaped-nazi-germany-in-1939/) - The family of Lore Gordon, who was among the German Jewish children evacuated to Britain on the Kindertransport, have paid tribute to her following her death at the age of 96 after contracting Covid-19. The virus, said her family, had achieved what Hitler and the Blitz failed to do – “to quench an adventurous, positive
- [Plays JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG and KINDERTRANSPORT Available for Free](https://kindertransport.org/2020/04/plays-judgement-at-nuremberg-and-kindertransport-available-for-free/) - L.A. Theatre Works has made the acclaimed plays "Judgement at Nuremberg" and "Kindertransport" available for free via the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust website. Both audio plays will be accessible until June 1, 2020.
- [My father brought a set of tzitzit into Dachau](https://kindertransport.org/2020/04/my-father-brought-a-set-of-tzitzit-into-dachau/) - Kindertransport refugee Bernd Koschland recalls learning that his father Jacob managed to sneak a set of tzitzit into Dachau Concentration Camp, which was liberated 75 years ago today.
- [Wolf Kahn, Who Painted Vibrant Landscapes, Is Dead at 92](https://kindertransport.org/2020/03/wolf-kahn-who-painted-vibrant-landscapes-is-dead-at-92/) - Wolf Kahn, a landscape painter who applied a vibrant, adventurous palette to studies of tangled forests and fog-shrouded mornings, died on March 15 at his home in Manhattan. Hans Wolfgang Kahn was born on Oct. 4, 1927, in Stuttgart, Germany. His father was Jewish, and the rise of Hitler put the family in jeopardy; in
- [I arrived here on the kindertransport – the similarities between now and 19](https://kindertransport.org/2020/03/i-arrived-here-on-the-kindertransport-the-similarities-between-now-and-19/) - At the end of February, the refugee crisis in Europe boiled over. Thousands flocked to the border between Turkey and Greece, which remained closed to them. The Greek authorities, overwhelmed by the numbers, responded with tear gas, including against families with children. Now coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the camps and the border between the two
- [The Story of Orphaned Holocaust Survivors: ‘The Windermere Children’](https://kindertransport.org/2020/03/the-story-of-orphaned-holocaust-survivors-the-windermere-children/) - Several books and films have told the story of the 10,000 Jewish children who were spirited out of Europe during World War II on Kindertransport trains to safety in Great Britain. Lesser known is the smaller post-war British mission to rescue Jewish orphans who had survived concentration camps and help them reclaim their lives. The
- [Lord Dubs to cite Kindertransport journey in Easter message for Humanists](https://kindertransport.org/2020/04/lord-dubs-to-cite-kindertransport-journey-in-easter-message-for-humanists/) - Peer and refugee rights campaigner Lord Alf Dubs is to tell how he fled the Nazis when he issues the secular Easter message to atheist and humanist prisoners in the UK on Friday. Czech-born Dubs, who came to Britain on the Kindertransport, will tell the prisoners how he escaped the Holocaust when he addresses inmates
- ['Kindertransport' To Debut At (Cleveland) Ensemble Theatre In March](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/kindertransport-to-debut-at-cleveland-ensemble-theatre-in-march/) - Kindertransport" will debut at Ensemble Theatre on March 6. The show focuses on a British rescue mission during World War II which saw 10,000 Jewish children placed into foster homes in the U.K. Helga and Werner Schlesinger are parents faced with the difficult choice of keeping their beloved daughter Eva in Germany with them, or
- [This historian draws lessons about family separation](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/this-historian-draws-lessons-about-family-separation/) - Seven years ago, Jennifer Craig-Norton uncovered a cache of original correspondence about a group of Kindertransport children. A Ph.D. candidate in England at the time, she had no idea that voices of child refugees from the past would end up shining a light on the global child refugee situation of today. But that’s exactly what
- [Kindertransport founder’s daughter on second generation conference lineup](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/kindertransport-founders-daughter-on-second-generation-conference-lineup/) - The daughter of the Kindertransport founder Sir Nicholas Winton, Barbara, and Lord Eric Pickles are on the lineup at a Holocaust remembrance conference for second generation families. The conference “Remembering and Rethinking: The international forum on the Second Generation” will run from 21 to 22 April at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium, aimed at second generation
- [Plans in pipeline for £500k Kindertransport statue in Harwich](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/plans-in-pipeline-for-500k-kindertransport-statue-in-harwich/) - A POIGNANT statue remembering the children saved from Nazi Germany by the Kindertransport could go on display in Harwich, if a project is successful. The sculpture, which could cost £500,000, would commemorate the child refugees who escaped Adolph Hitler’s reign of terror in parts of Europe ahead of the Second World War.
- [Ex-child refugee says modern leaders are using migrants as pawns](https://kindertransport.org/2020/03/ex-child-refugee-says-modern-leaders-are-using-migrants-as-pawns/) - Kind Ruth Barnett, 85, was collecting an MBE for services to Holocaust education and awareness. Holocaust education campaigner Ruth Barnett described her heartbreak at recent “awful” scenes of hostility towards migrants in Greece, and hit out at the UK government for “going back on their word” to take in more child refugees. Ruth, who was
- [North Hills hosting mobile exhibit on Kindertransport along with a survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/north-hills-hosting-mobile-exhibit-on-kindertransport-along-with-a-survivor/) - Margot Lobree, a Holocaust survivor who was rescued as part of Kindertransport, will visit the North Hills Christian School and speak to students. Kindertransport, German for children’s transport, took about 10,000 children from Nazi territory to the United Kingdom before the war started. Many of the children were the only members of their families to
- [Surrender and Sanctuary project draws to a close after two years](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/surrender-and-sanctuary-project-draws-to-a-close-after-two-years/) - Surrender and Sanctuary was a National Lottery-funded project to celebrate and commemorate the anniversaries of the town’s hugely-significant moments in history which were the surrender of the German U-boat fleet in 1918 and the arrival of the first Jewish refugee children, known as the Kindertransport, in December 1938.
- [Redditch group creates artwork for Holocaust exhibition in London](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/redditch-group-creates-artwork-for-holocaust-exhibition-in-london/) - ARTWORK created by the 1st Redditch Girls’ Brigade was recently displayed at a special exhibition...'The Kindertransport Memorial Flame’ – created by the group – was displayed at a central London venue next to Westminster Abbey.
- [Lipscomb’s College of Entertainment (Nashville) presents, Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/lipscombs-college-of-entertainment-nashville-presents-kindertransport/) - Bring your tissues. As described aptly in the College of Entertainment and the Arts emails, “Kindertransport depicts the agony of separating a child from her parents and wrestles with the consequences of that choice, an act of sacrifice that also wreaks devastating results.”
- [Carousel in Frankfurt to recall the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/carousel-in-frankfurt-to-recall-the-kindertransport/) - A children’s carousel of the kind installed in British playgrounds in the 1930s has been selected by the city of Frankfurt to commemorate the unaccompanied children on the Kindertransport from Nazi Germany and other occupied territories before the outbreak of the Second World War. The Orphan Carousel, conceived by the Israeli artist Yael Bartana, features
- [Jessica Morden recalls Renate Collins' escape from Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/jessica-morden-recalls-renate-collins-escape-from-holocaust/) - Renate Collins was five years old when she boarded a train to the UK – the last so-called Kindertransport to leave Prague in 1939, before the outbreak of the Second World War. A NEWPORT MP welcomed 86-year-old Collins to Westminster this week and shared with the House of Commons her remarkable story of how she
- [Manningham house opened up for Kindertransport boys fleeing Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2020/02/manningham-house-opened-up-for-kindertransport-boys-fleeing-nazis/) - Albert Wachsman was the only child from his town, Saarbrucken in Germany, chosen for the Kindertransport. His two older brothers were in Palestine and his younger brother was hidden on a farm in France when Albert’s mother put him on a train to Cologne in February 1939. He joined youngsters travelling to Harwich, Essex, then
- [The story of the six-year-old brought to Abercynon to escape Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/the-story-of-the-six-year-old-brought-to-abercynon-to-escape-nazi-germany/) - At the age of six, Elga Kitchener came to Wales as a Kindertransport refugee to escape Nazi Germany, in June 1939. On the same day, her mother gave birth to her only sibling. Elga's aunt Dinah would be caring for her in Abercynon until the family could be reunited in Wales. But Elga never met
- [Holocaust survivors' stories 'could help' child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/holocaust-survivors-stories-could-help-child-refugees/) - About 10,000 mainly Jewish children escaped from the Nazis in the 1930s thanks to the Kindertransport scheme. A study at Aberystwyth University will look at how those children's experiences went on to affect them in their adult lives. Dr Andrea Hammel said it could help children fleeing conflict today.
- [Lord Dubs: ‘The children are counting on us to continue refugee fight’](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/lord-dubs-the-children-are-counting-on-us-to-continue-refugee-fight/) - The Labour peer’s EU Withdrawal Bill amendment failed last week. But Kindertransport kid Lord Dubs explains, exclusively in The Big Issue, why he will keep on battling for child refugees to be reunited with their loved ones in the UK
- [From darkness to greatness](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/from-darkness-to-greatness/) - Profiles of five prominent Kindertransport successes
- [Auschwitz 75: Caller asks listeners to help find him find his father](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/auschwitz-75-caller-asks-listeners-to-help-find-him-find-his-father/) - A caller made a moving appeal to listeners to help him locate his father who was on the Kindertransport in 1939.
- [My Mother’s Story: A Kindertransport Lunch & Learn](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/my-mothers-story-a-kindertransport-lunch-learn/) - (Milwaukee) Dr. Sue Bernstein will share the courageous story of survival of her mother Ruth Wasserman Segal who was born in 1926 in Nuremberg, Germany. She survived the Holocaust by embarking on the Kindertransport from Germany en-route to England on April 18, 1939.
- [Op-ed: Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/op-ed-kindertransport/) - I think we need some refreshment from the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. Let’s forget about them for a few minutes and think about Nicholas Winton instead.
- [Islamophobia and antisemitism go hand in hand, warn child refugees of genoc](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/islamophobia-and-antisemitism-go-hand-in-hand-warn-child-refugees-of-genoc/) - Kindertransport survivor Vera Schaufeld and Bosnian refugee survivor Safet Vukalic share their testimony in interview with Jewish News ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day
- [Kindertransport Exhibit and Series](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/kindertransport-exhibit-and-series/) - The Jewish Community Center opens a new exhibit, “A Thousand Kisses: Stories of the Kindertransport,” and, along with the Holocaust Education Resource Center of Milwaukee, presents it with several related events later this month.
- [Music links pianist to mother’s story of Holocaust survival](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/music-links-pianist-to-mothers-story-of-holocaust-survival/) - Music moved pianist Mona Golabek to tell the story of her mother, herself a pianist whose career was cut short when the Nazis occupied Austria. [Her mother's] dream ended when 14-year-old Jura had to flee the Nazis via the Kindertransport and begin a new life at a children’s home on Willesden Lane in London, where
- [Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld, Hero of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/rabbi-dr-solomon-schonfeld-hero-of-the-kindertransport/) - New book written by native Londoner Riki Goldstein, introduces today’s youth to vital history about the Nazis, the Kindertransport, and the Holocaust in an accessible and child-friendly way. Book is recommended for children in grades 3-6.
- [Holocaust Survivor Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines to address schoolchildren](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/holocaust-survivor-lady-milena-grenfell-baines-to-address-schoolchildren/) - Born in 1929, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of the 669 predominantly Jewish children who were evacuated from Prague on one of the eight kindertransport trains organised by Sir Nicholas Winton. Pupils from primary and secondary schools across the borough will travel to the Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, to hear testimony from Milena on
- [93-year-old settled in North-East after fleeing Nazis on Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/93-year-old-settled-in-north-east-after-fleeing-nazis-on-kindertransport/) - A grandmother who settled in northeast England told the story of how she escaped on a Kindertransport at the age of 13.
- [Holocaust survivors honored by UK Queen in New Year's Honours List](https://kindertransport.org/2019/12/holocaust-survivors-honored-by-uk-queen-in-new-years-honours-list/) - A total of 31 people have been included in the UK New Year's Honours List for their contribution to Holocaust Education, among them many Holocaust survivors. The list includes several survivors who arrived to Britain as children thanks to the Kindertransport, a program that saved several thousand Jewish children from Nazi Germany and other Nazi
- [Tributes paid to Kindertransport refugee Hermann Hirschberger](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/tributes-paid-to-kindertransport-refugee-hermann-hirschberger/) - A Holocaust survivor who witnessed Kristallnacht and later won improved pensions for his Kindertransport peers as their UK spokesman has died aged 93. German-born Hermann Hirschberger came to the UK as a teenager, celebrating his bar mitzvah in a hostel before training to be an engineer and later helping to found Belmont Synagogue.
- [“I felt I wasn’t a person any more, I’d become ‘the Jew’”](https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/i-felt-i-wasnt-a-person-any-more-id-become-the-jew/) - Kindertransport refugee Vera Schaufeld tells Alex Galbinski why she now speaks out for other stranded children. As she speaks of her childhood, Vera, now 89, is matter of fact about the tragedies that changed her life and clings to the memories of her family life
- [Man born at Gwyrch castle 79 years ago returns - the amazing reason why](https://kindertransport.org/2019/11/man-born-at-gwyrch-castle-79-years-ago-returns-the-amazing-reason-why/) - The son of a couple who helped 200 Jewish refugee children escape to North Wales during World War Two has made an emotional return to the place he was born. Professor Daniel Sperber, who lives in Jerusalem, was born at Gwrych Castle in 1940. His parents, Rabbi Shmuel Sperber and Miriam, had arranged the 'kindertransport'
- [German Refugees to Atlanta on U.S. Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2019/11/german-refugees-to-atlanta-on-u-s-kindertransport/) - Just months before the earth-shattering tragedy of Kristallnacht occurred in Germany in November 1938, awakening the Jewish community to a new reality, the family of Heinz Birnbrei already knew their lives were endangered. The 14-year-old from Dortmund who was later to be known as Henry Birnbrey was given 24 hours to say goodbye to his
- [Peter Gossels, who escaped the Holocaust and became a beacon of optomism](https://kindertransport.org/2019/11/peter-gossels-who-escaped-the-holocaust-and-became-a-beacon-of-optomism/) - Peter Gossels was a few weeks shy of turning 9 when his mother placed him and his 5-year-old brother on a train to flee Germany for France on July 3, 1939. For two years she wrote letters to her sons as they hid in France from the Nazis and after they traveled to Massachusetts, where
- [Memories that Won't Go Away, a tribute to the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2019/12/memories-that-wont-go-away-a-tribute-to-the-kindertransport/) - Michele Gold, whose mother escaped the Holocaust, honors the 81st anniversary of the Kindertransport. She discusses “Memories That Won’t Go Away: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport” and participates in a panel discussion with Kindertransport survivors and descendants of survivors at 3 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 8) at the Los Angeles Museum of the
- [Rabbi, Principal, Hero: The story of Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld](https://kindertransport.org/2019/12/rabbi-principal-hero-the-story-of-rabbi-dr-solomon-schonfeld/) - Who were these children, who had traveled so far, alone? These were the first children of Rabbi Schonfeld’s Kindertransport. Their parents were back home, in Vienna, Austria. They had once enjoyed beautiful homes and shuls and a special Jewish community, but now, Nazi soldiers marched through Vienna’s streets. Despite the Nazi danger, Rabbi Schonfeld had
- [World Jewish Relief Shares Kindertransport Records](https://kindertransport.org/2019/10/world-jewish-relief-shares-kindertransport-records/) - The Garnethill Synagogue in Scotland is home of the Holocaust Archive Center. That Center turned out to be the perfect venue for Andrew Marcus of North Brunswick to search for the Kindertransport records of his mother, Erica. A visit to the center in the spring of 2019 resulted in Marcus being prompted to contact the
- [Exhibition Review: Am Endes des Tunnels](https://kindertransport.org/2019/10/exhibition-review-am-endes-des-tunnels/) - In an unassuming suburb of Berlin lies a testament to a truly remarkable tale. A temporary exhibition entitled Am Endes des Tunnels (‘At the End of the Tunnels’) commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransports from Berlin. Between 1938 and 1940, up to 10,000 children from Nazi-occupied territories were transported to Great Britain. Of these,
- [Kibbutz built by Kindertransport survivors makes furniture for 6,000 synago](https://kindertransport.org/2019/10/kibbutz-built-by-kindertransport-survivors-makes-furniture-for-6000-synago/) - Kibbutz Lavi, whose founders included children evacuated from Germany to the United Kingdom as part of the Kindertransport program before the Holocaust, has become the main provider worldwide of furniture for synagogues.
- [Kindertransport Exhibit on Display at the Holocaust Memorial Center](https://kindertransport.org/2019/11/kindertransport-exhibit-on-display-at-the-holocaust-memorial-center/) - Relics of this haunted but rarely examined chapter of the Holocaust are now on display in “Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the Brink of War,” a collaboration of the Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute. The exhibit opened in New York in November 2018 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of
- [Kinder](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/kinder/) - In the footsteps of childhood: In July, former children's transport children, some with their partners and descendants of those who had once been rescued, made a special journey. The New York-based "Kindertransport Association" organized a commemorative journey, which led from Vienna by train and boat via Berlin and Amsterdam to London.
- [Family separation and refugee cap reinvigorate Jews’ activist roots](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/family-separation-and-refugee-cap-reinvigorate-jews-activist-roots/) - KTA Board member Rachel Rubin Green is featured in the Los Angeles Times for her work with refugees "Family separation and refugee cap reinvigorate Jews’ activist roots: ‘We’ve always been immigrants’ "
- [The Joyous Tragedy Of Eva Hesse](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/the-joyous-tragedy-of-eva-hesse/) - It is, I think, no melodramatic overstatement to describe the artist Eve Hesse’s life as essentially tragic. As a toddler, she barely survived World War II, having been sent from her Hamburg home to Holland on the Kindertransport with her older sister Helen. Later, she watched her mother destroy herself after learning that her own
- [The Fate Of Refugee Families Is In America’s Hands](https://kindertransport.org/2019/10/the-fate-of-refugee-families-is-in-americas-hands/) - On the eve of World War II many parents faced an impossible choice: stay with their children as the Nazis closed in, or send them away. More than 10,000 children made it to England and other countries as part of the kindertransports or children’s transport, a life-saving program. Today there’s a new kind of kindertransport
- [Bay Area novelist brings Kindertransports to life](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/bay-area-novelist-brings-kindertransports-to-life/) - Meg Waite Clayton knew she was writing a novel about the Kindertransports, but she didn’t know whether to focus on the transports out of Vienna or Prague. Clayton had made a research trip to Vienna but was not feeling connected to the city. Then she visited an exhibit there featuring the contents of suitcases taken
- [Yorkshire Holocaust centre to pay tribute to Sir Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/yorkshire-holocaust-centre-to-pay-tribute-to-sir-nicholas-winton/) - The man who saved close to 700 children from the Nazis will be honoured next week on the first anniversary of a new Holocaust education centre in Yorkshire. Barbara Winton will pay tribute to her late father Sir Nicholas Winton, alongside one of the 669 children he saved, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines.
- [A look back at Buckinghamshire’s strong Czech connection](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/a-look-back-at-buckinghamshires-strong-czech-connection/) - Czech refugees came to live in Beaconsfield, Wendover, Berkhamsted and other places in the area. Some of these escaped through Poland or Hungary and came to England by various routes. Some were Czechoslovak Jewish children who came on Kindertransport organised by Sir Nicholas Winton.
- [Remembering 4,000 Jewish refugees who were welcomed in Kent](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/remembering-4000-jewish-refugees-who-were-welcomed-in-kent/) - The story of the Kindertransport has been well told. But less well known is the story of the 4,000 men - mainly Austrian and German Jews - who were brought to Kent before the outbreak of war in 1939. Now, relatives have traced their footsteps to Sandwich near the site of the refugee camp that
- [How a battered trunk unlocked my family's Holocaust secrets](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/how-a-battered-trunk-unlocked-my-familys-holocaust-secrets/) - Raised in Kensington, west London, Urbach was the child of Jewish refugees who had fled to Britain from Germany in the Thirties. His mother, Eva, arrived as a teenager on the Kindertransport, the British rescue mission that saved almost 10,000 Jewish children from the hands of the Nazis. His family’s only physical connection with their
- [Shropshire's safe haven for Jewish children](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/shropshires-safe-haven-for-jewish-children/) - One school which came to Shropshire early in the war provided a safe haven for Jewish children who had escaped Nazi persecution. A blue plaque on Trench Hall at Tilley Green, near Wem, tells of its noble wartime role. It says: "This progressive Jewish boarding school was founded by Anna Essinger M.A. in Ulm, Germany,
- [Nazi-era Kindertransport survivors return to Germany | DW News](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/nazi-era-kindertransport-survivors-return-to-germany-dw-news/) - Kurt Marx, a Kind living in the UK, visits Berlin in the summer of 2019. Video report.
- [Remembering Alfred Cotton](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/remembering-alfred-cotton/) - A man of tremendous integrity, loyalty, determination and kindness, Alfred Cotton, 93, of Oakland, California, passed away peacefully at home on July 19, 2019, with his beloved wife of 63 years, Anita, by his side. Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1925, the only child of Salomon and Amalia Baumwollspinner, his pleasant childhood was ended by
- [In Search of Prague](https://kindertransport.org/2019/08/in-search-of-prague/) - Remembering the Helping Hands of a Hero Most people wouldn’t think about visiting a train station for any other reason than travel. But Prague’s Hlavní nádraží has an unexpected and important story to tell.
- [Eine ungewöhnliche Reise erinnert an die „Kindertransporte“](https://kindertransport.org/2019/08/eine-ungewohnliche-reise-erinnert-an-die-kindertransporte/) - ARD Vienna|Southern Europe covers the Kindertransport Journey Trip. Radio and video as well as text. Journalist Andrea Beer interviewed travelers in Vienna.
- [BBC Witness History Kindertransport: a fantastic act of love](https://kindertransport.org/2019/09/bbc-witness-history-kindertransport-a-fantastic-act-of-love/) - Dame Stephanie Shirley was among thousands of mostly Jewish unaccompanied children, who were sent by their parents to safety in the UK fleeing the rise of the Nazis in Europe. She was just five years old when her mother put her on a train in Vienna bound for London, not knowing if they would ever
- [Joodse kinderen van toen terug in Hoek van Holland](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/joodse-kinderen-van-toen-terug-in-hoek-van-holland/) - Before the Second World War broke out in the Netherlands, large parts of Europe were already ravaged by the Nazis. Jewish parents who feared for the lives of their children sent them to England by train. A number of children from that time came to the children's monument in Hoek van Holland on Wednesday. Mark
- [Refugee children from the Second World War return to Hoek van Holland](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/refugee-children-from-the-second-world-war-return-to-hoek-van-holland/) - THe Kindertranspport Journey Trip met with students at the Kindertransport Memorial at Hook of Holland before boarding the ferry to Harwich, July 10, 2019
- [Holocaust-Überlebende sind als Gäste in Berlin](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/holocaust-uberlebende-sind-als-gaste-in-berlin/) - Holocaust-Überlebende und ihre Angehörigen besuchen Berlin. Sie fahren die Strecke der Kindertransporte nach, durch die sie gerettet wurden.
- [Reise in die Vergangenheit](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/reise-in-die-vergangenheit/) - Uberlebende der Kindertransporte aus den USA besuchten das Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus Fünf Holocaust-Überlebende aus den USA waren in der vergangenen Woche zu Gast in Berlin. Am Freitag wurden sie gemeinsam mit ihren mitgereisten Angehörigen vom Präsidenten des Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus, Ralf Wieland (SPD), in den Räumen des Landesparlaments empfangen. Der Termin mit dem Parlamentspräsidenten war für die
- [Retracing Germany's tragic Kindertransport, 80 years later](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/retracing-germanys-tragic-kindertransport-80-years-later/) - Just months before the outbreak of the Second World War, 10,000 mostly Jewish children were granted refuge in England. Eighty years later, survivors are retracing a painful journey that is still relevant today.
- [Kindertransport survivors taken to retrace escape from Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/kindertransport-survivors-taken-to-retrace-escape-from-holocaust/) - The trip commemorates the 80th anniversary of the kindertransports between 1938 and 1939, which saved some 10,000 children from Central European countries.
- [Kindertransport-Überlebende besuchen Kindertransport-Denkmal,](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/kindertransport-uberlebende-besuchen-kindertransport-denkmal/) - 80 Jahre nach den Kindertransporten nach Großbritannien (30. November 1938 – 1. September 1939) organisierte Melissa Hacker von der Kindertransport Association eine Zugreise von Wien nach Berlin und anschließend weiter nach Hoek van Holland, um dann mit der Fähre nach Harwich in England zu fahren, die gleichen oder ähnliche Zuglinien wie die geretteten Kinder vor
- [80 Jahre später](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/80-jahre-spater/) - Traumatische Ereignisse können Menschen ein Leben lang begleiten. Sie werden ein Teil der Persönlichkeit und lassen sich auch nach Jahren oder Jahrzehnten nicht vergessen. Einer, der mit einem solchen Trauma lebt, ist Ralph Mollerick: 89 Jahre alt, verheiratet, er lebt in Los Angeles in den USA. Seine Geschichte beginnt 1938. Auf der Suche nach einem
- [Flucht der Kinder vor dem "tierischen Antisemitismus"](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/flucht-der-kinder-vor-dem-tierischen-antisemitismus/) - Mit einem Kindertransport verließ Melamid Wien – mit einer von insgesamt 23 Rettungsfahrten für unter 18-jährige jüdische Kinder von Wien nach London. Juden, Quäker und Christen verschiedener Glaubensbekenntnisse hatten der nationalsozialistischen Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Wien und ihren Leitern Adolf Eichmann und Alois Brunner die Fahrten gegen Geld abgerungen.
- [Corbyn calls for rejection of ‘language of hate’, citing Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/corbyn-calls-for-rejection-of-language-of-hate-citing-kindertransport/) - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged the country to “reject the language of hate and division” on World Refugee Day in a video referencing the Kindertransport. The short 90 second clip shared on Thursday contains footage of refugee camps and migrant boats and calls for a return to “humanity, fairness and acceptance.”
- [Kindertransporte Überlebende kehren zu Besuch zurück](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/kindertransporte-uberlebende-kehren-zu-besuch-zuruck/) - Sie wurden in der NS-Zeit von den Eltern weggegeben und so gerettet, jetzt kommen die "Kinder" mit ihren eigenen Kindern wieder.
- [Jüdisch leben (Über 80jährige) Kinder](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/judisch-leben-uber-80jahrige-kinder/) - The children saved during the National Socialist era still know exactly how they felt then. We should also look more closely at today's refugee children, which they have already experienced traumatizing.
- [Kindertransporte. Züge ins Leben - Züge in den Tod](https://kindertransport.org/2019/07/kindertransporte-zuge-ins-leben-zuge-in-den-tod/) - Four "childrens" of child transport rescued from the Nazis and 14 second-generation child transport survivors visit the children's transport memorial "Trains to Life - Trains to Death; trains to death - trains to life 1938-1939 "at Friedrichstrasse station in Berlin-Mitte.
- [Prague memorial to Jewish children who fled Nazis vandalised](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/prague-memorial-to-jewish-children-who-fled-nazis-vandalised/) - A memorial honouring the escape of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis, organised by Sir Nicholas Winton, has been damaged in an apparently carefully planned attack. The Valediction Memorial at Prague’s main railway station – representing trains used to transport 669 children from the Czech capital to Britain – was left with a long crack
- [Hatred then, hatred now: Kindertransport memorial smashed](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/hatred-then-hatred-now-kindertransport-memorial-smashed/) - A new Kindertransport memorial in Prague which pays tribute to Sir Nicholas Winton’s 1939 rescue effort has been damaged by determined vandals who “came prepared”. Police said they were investigating the attack on the Valediction memorial at Prague’s main railway station, where trains shuttled 669 Jewish children to safety in the UK.
- [Das bewegte Leben des Hans Menasse](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/das-bewegte-leben-des-hans-menasse/) - Article on Austrian Kind and soccer player Hans Menasse.
- [Yad Vashem Marks 80 Years Since the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/yad-vashem-marks-80-years-since-the-kindertransport/) - Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is commemorating 80 years since the Kindertransport with a new display of rare artifacts which belonged to children who escaped Nazi Germany on the eve of the Holocaust.
- [Seven Holocaust survivors named in Queen’s Birthday Honours List](https://kindertransport.org/2019/06/seven-holocaust-survivors-named-in-queens-birthday-honours-list/) - 5 KInder, including Walter Kammerling, 95, who arrived on the Kindertransport at 15, were honored for their dedication to sharing their stories. “I don’t feel I am so very special. It’s a great honour. I do appreciate it. I thank everybody concerned that I do get this honour,” he said. “It is a personal talk,
- [Dutch filmmakers making doc about Shoah hero appeal to UK Jews for help](https://kindertransport.org/2019/04/dutch-filmmakers-making-doc-about-shoah-hero-appeal-to-uk-jews-for-help/) - Dutch filmmakers are appealing to British Jews to help them make a documentary about a social worker who became a Holocaust hero after helping 10,000 Jewish children reach safety via the Kindertransport. Resistance fighter Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, whose nickname was ‘Truus,’ was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, after her wartime efforts –
- [Annual Holocaust Commemoration on May 1st](https://kindertransport.org/2019/05/annual-holocaust-commemoration-on-may-1st/) - On May 1st, the Ithaca community will get the chance to hear a firsthand account of one of the most tragic episodes in world history, the Holocaust, from a man who survived it. Gerd Korman’s family was separated during the war in various camps across Europe. They were finally reunited in the United States in
- [A Holocaust Art Exhibit Was Vandalized. But Vienna Is Fighting Back](https://kindertransport.org/2019/05/a-holocaust-art-exhibit-was-vandalized-but-vienna-is-fighting-back/)
- [Inge and Ellen: my family and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2019/01/inge-and-ellen-my-family-and-the-kindertransport/) - An article in the London Financial Times written by the grandson in a family that took in two German Kinder. The Kinder are KTA members, and the families are still close.
- [Dr. Ruth Reflects on Escaping Nazi Germany 80 Years After Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2019/01/dr-ruth-reflects-on-escaping-nazi-germany-80-years-after-kindertransport/) - Before she became a world-renowned Sex Expert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was 10-year-old Karola Ruth Siegel, one of thousands of Jewish children in Germany saying goodbye to their families for a life-saving journey. "If I had not been sent from Frankfurt. If I had not been on that train on January 5, 1939 from Frankfurt to
- [Nicholas Winton's Story on CBS 60 Minutes New Program](https://kindertransport.org/2019/01/nicholas-wintons-story-on-cbs-60-minutes-new-program/) - n honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 60 Minutes looks back at Bob Simon's 2014 profile of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis. An extraordinary story from the Second World War, a humanitarian story that didn't come to light for decades. It concerns a young Londoner named Nicholas Winton who went
- [Kindertransport: Britain's response to the growing refugee crisis in 1938](https://kindertransport.org/2019/02/kindertransport-britains-response-to-the-growing-refugee-crisis-in-1938/) - The Kindertransport initiative was set up between 1938 and 1939 to rescue nearly 10,000 Jewish child refugees prior to the second world war. This resource explores The Guardian’s coverage of child refugees from Nazi occupied countries, along with a first hand account from Guardian journalist, Hella Pick.
- [‘Green Book’ Got Racism Wrong; This 1964 Film Got It Right](https://kindertransport.org/2019/02/green-book-got-racism-wrong-this-1964-film-got-it-right/) - Can a white person realistically make a film about racism that avoids this trap? Well, yes. It’s not just possible; it’s been done. The best example may be the 1964 film “Nothing But a Man.” Directed by Michael Roemer, a Berlin-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport, and shot by Robert M. Young,
- [The Woman Behind the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/the-woman-behind-the-kindertransport/) - Female volunteers such as Marie Schmolka played a decisive role in the collaborative project to rescue beleaguered Jewish children.
- [Germany To Compensate Survivors Of World War II's Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/germany-to-compensate-survivors-of-world-war-iis-kindertransport/) - After 80 years, survivors of the “Kindertransport” evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany and elsewhere in Europe before World War II will receive compensation from the German government. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also known as the Claims Conference, said the German government agreed to pay each person still alive a
- [Alfred Bader: Chemical company magnate, Milwaukee philanthropist dies at 94](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/alfred-bader-chemical-company-magnate-milwaukee-philanthropist-dies-at-94/) - Alfred Bader, a chemist, philanthropist and art collector who escaped the Holocaust in Europe and built a chemical company in Milwaukee, died Sunday. Bader was 94 and died peacefully, the family said. His wife, Isabel, was at his side.
- [Alfred Bader, 1924-2018](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/alfred-bader-1924-2018/) - He had quite a story. Bader was born in Vienna in 1924, and at 14 was sent to England (along with many others his age) to escape persecution. (His adoptive mother died in the Nazi camps, so this concern was extremely well-founded). In 1940 he was sent on to Canada, and he studied there at
- [Ocasio-Cortez and Graham's immigration debate missed this key lesson -CNN](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/ocasio-cortez-and-grahams-immigration-debate-missed-this-key-lesson-cnn/) - This week is a particularly apt time to reflect on the legacy of US immigration policy in the 1930s. Eighty years ago this week, on December 2, 1938, the first group of Jewish refugee children arrived in Great Britain as part of a larger humanitarian effort to save Jewish children from the growing violence of
- [Mark Hetfield of HIAS Speaks to the KTA](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/mark-hetfield-of-hias-speaks-to-the-kta/) - HIAS President and CEO Mark Hetfield addresses the Kindertransport Association at the Center for Jewish History in New York, December 2, 2018. Hetfield discussed the importance of remembering history and reminding the United States of its responsibility toward refugees. “We need your help in debunking this myth that nationalism is good and that a country
- [The Long Goodbye: Kindertransport Revisited 80 Years After](https://kindertransport.org/2018/12/the-long-goodbye-kindertransport-revisited-80-years-after/) - Relics of this haunted but rarely examined chapter of the Holocaust are now on display in a small but stinging exhibit, “Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War,” a collaboration of the Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute, that opened this week in Manhattan at the Leo Baeck Institute at the
- [Clement Attlee took in Jewish child refugee who fled Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/clement-attlee-took-in-jewish-child-refugee-who-fled-nazis/) - Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister whose government founded the welfare state, looked after a child refugee who escaped from the Nazis in the months leading up to the second world war, it can be revealed. The then leader of the opposition sponsored a Jewish mother and her two children, giving them the confidence and
- [The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'My father had nightmares"](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/the-kindertransport-children-80-years-on-my-father-had-nightmares/) - Even 80 years on from her flight from the Nazis, Elsa Shamash, 91, retains a strong German accent. She is a little deaf and her daughter helps her understand my questions. Her father was a pioneering radiologist and the family, which lived in Berlin, was wealthy. She and her brother Heinz were at private school
- [Council backs Safe Passage campaign for child refugees on 80th anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/council-backs-safe-passage-campaign-for-child-refugees-on-80th-anniversary/) - Organisers in Dorset of the campaign to allow three child refugees a year to settle in this county and all other local authorities have welcomed backing from county councillors. Dorset county councillors voted unanimously to give their support to the local safe Passage campaign which aims to replicate the so-called ‘KinderTransport’ initiative 80 years ago
- [Kindertransport survivors call for government to take in child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/kindertransport-survivors-call-for-government-to-take-in-child-refugees/) - A group of 60 Kindertransport survivors have urged the government to provide more routes to sanctuary for child refugees. 'As former child refugees ourselves, we believe the UK government should give more children at risk the same life-saving opportunity that we had'
- [The Kindertransport children 80 years on: ‘When I was 14"](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/the-kindertransport-children-80-years-on-when-i-was-14/) - Ruth Barnett, 83, was born in 1935, in a Germany that was already descending into Nazi tyranny. Her Jewish father was a judge who had been deprived of his post and frogmarched out of his court by the SS in 1933; her non-Jewish mother ran a cinema-advertising business in Berlin. “We had a brilliant future
- [Survivors Remember: The Echoes of Kristallnacht](https://kindertransport.org/2018/10/survivors-remember-the-echoes-of-kristallnacht/) - Just before midnight on November 9, 1938, Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller sent a telegram to every police unit in Nazi Germany. “In shortest order,” it read, “actions against Jews and especially their synagogues will take place in all of Germany. These are not to be interfered with.” Firefighters stood by as synagogues and Jewish-owned homes,
- [These Kindertransport refugees didn't speak of their past for decades.](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/these-kindertransport-refugees-didnt-speak-of-their-past-for-decades/) - Ann and Bob Kirk both came to England as children on the eve of the Second World War. Even their children didn't know their stories.
- [Miller South students presenting ‘Stories of the Kindertransport’](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/miller-south-students-presenting-stories-of-the-kindertransport/) - “The year 2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport and the 25th anniversary of this play,” said Miller South theater teacher Alex Funk in a press release. “Given the emotional journey of the production’s characters and its painful relevance to current events, ‘Kindertransport’ isn’t an easy show for middle-schoolers to undertake. But the story
- [The Kindertransport children 80 years on: Adventure](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/the-kindertransport-children-80-years-on-adventure/) - n 1938, the first of the Jewish Kindertransport children evacuated from Nazi Germany arrived in Britain. This week, we’re publishing the stories of six of those refugees, beginning with Bob and Ann Kirk.
- [The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'I'm grateful my parents sent me"](https://kindertransport.org/2018/11/the-kindertransport-children-80-years-on-im-grateful-my-parents-sent-me/) - His place on the Kindertransport was obtained with the help of Jewish organisation B’nai B’rith, and, aged eight, he left Fürth in March 1939, to Hamburg and then by ship to Southampton – a picture of the ship, the SS Manhattan which brought 80 refugee children to the UK, adorns the wall of his living
- [Saved by the kindness of strangers: reflections on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2018/10/saved-by-the-kindness-of-strangers-reflections-on-the-kindertransport/) - There are always heroes amid the horrors of war. They are often from ordinary backgrounds, but prove extraordinary in their unwavering sense of humanity. Bernard and Winifred Schlesinger were such a couple, according to Monique Vajifdar, the daughter of Kindertransport survivor, Hedwig Leonore Vajifdar (nee Feig). Although the Schlesingers already had five children of their
- [Vienna's Kindertransport museum set to reopen in new home](https://kindertransport.org/2018/10/viennas-kindertransport-museum-set-to-reopen-in-new-home/) - The Kindertransport museum in Austria’s capital will reopen this October after a ten-month struggle to find a new home. The new museum, which will reopen just in time for the anniversary of the first Kindertransport eighty years ago, will be housed in Urania, the Art Nouveau public education institute, in the heart of Vienna.
- [On a Bike, Ex-child Refugee Retraces Escape From Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/on-a-bike-ex-child-refugee-retraces-escape-from-nazi-germany/) - Now 81, the former refugee child on Sunday began retracing that journey to freedom — but this time by bicycle as part of a commemorative ride to pay tribute to the Kindertransport scheme that saved him and thousands of Jewish children eight decades ago.
- [My Separation Trauma](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/my-separation-trauma/) - KTA member Eva Yachnes has written a letter to the New York Times: When I was 6, I was torn, screaming, from my grandmother and put on a train taking me far from home and family. Unlike the tragedy perpetrated by our president, my separation was done to save me from the Nazis. I was
- [On a bike, ex-child refugee retraces escape from Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/on-a-bike-ex-child-refugee-retraces-escape-from-nazi-germany-2/) - Paul Alexander, 81, will pedal 600 miles with son, grandson and 39 others to pay tribute to Kindertransport program that saved thousands of Jewish children.
- [Remembering: The night of the broken glass](https://kindertransport.org/2018/04/remembering-the-night-of-the-broken-glass/) - There were tears that come with such a parting, a 12-year-old boy leaving his parents to live with strangers far away, but they dried in a current of excitement as the train rumbled out of Berlin's Zoo Station. In his small suitcase were clothes with name tags sewn in by friends of his mother the
- [Cyclists to retrace route of Kindertransport that saved 10,000 from Holocau](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/cyclists-to-retrace-route-of-kindertransport-that-saved-10000-from-holocau/) - World Jewish Relief has organised the commemorative ride from Berlin to London to mark 80 years since the evacuation effort.
- [Dr. Ruth, Dr. Kissinger, and Trump’s Cruelty to Families](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/dr-ruth-dr-kissinger-and-trumps-cruelty-to-families/)
- [Kindertransport child refugee who fled Nazis to retrace journey](https://kindertransport.org/2018/06/kindertransport-child-refugee-who-fled-nazis-to-retrace-journey/) - An 80-year-old refugee who arrived in Britain from Nazi Europe as a toddler is taking part in a cycle ride to mark the rescue of 10,000 children. Paul Alexander will retrace the first journey of the Kindertransport rescue for the 80th anniversary. The rescue was organised after the anti-Jewish violence of Kristallnacht in Germany in
- [Boy who fled Nazi Germany in Kindertransport tells tale of survival](https://kindertransport.org/2018/01/boy-who-fled-nazi-germany-in-kindertransport-tells-tale-of-survival/) - Ken Appel, 90, spoke to Watford Rotary Club about being beaten by his former friends and eventually being expelled from school for being Jewish during the rise of the Nazi Party.
- [Kindertransport Commemorative Cycle. Berlin to London 17-22 June 2018](https://kindertransport.org/2018/01/kindertransport-commemorative-cycle-berlin-to-london-17-22-june-2018/) - World Jewish Relief is creating an exceptional new cycle challenge to commemorate 80 years since they, as the Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF), orchestrated the Kindertransport and brought 10,000 children to safety. This unique six day cycle will emulate the journey taken by the children on the first Kindertransport train, departing Berlin and
- [Holocaust survivor returns to Millisle](https://kindertransport.org/2018/01/holocaust-survivor-returns-to-millisle/) - She survived the horrors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, where most of her family were murdered by the Nazis. But it was on the County Down coast that Rachel Levy began to recover from the Holocaust. She was among a small number of Jewish orphans brought to live in a farm near Millisle in the immediate
- [When German trains saved Jewish kids](https://kindertransport.org/2018/03/when-german-trains-saved-jewish-kids/) - While Germany’s Reichsbahn is most infamous for carrying Jews to their final destination, the national rail system was also used to transport 10,000 Jewish children to safe haven in the UK. “My mother had a choice. She could save me, or one of my brothers. Only one of us could go to England, and she
- [Do you know these children? The mystery of the Kindertransport photos](https://kindertransport.org/2018/04/do-you-know-these-children-the-mystery-of-the-kindertransport-photos/) - The quest of a daughter of a Kindertransport survivor to discover the identity of others who accompanied her. The photographs are old — 77 years old — but the children in them are young. Some look serious, while others smile. At that point in time, it was still not yet clear that they had escaped
- [Survivor Lore Rosen: Saved by Kindertransport and self-reliance](https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/survivor-lore-rosen-saved-by-kindertransport-and-self-reliance-2/) - Aafter Hitler came to power in 1933, Lore, then 9, remembers standing in the street watching the brownshirts marching and singing. She wanted to join in until she realized they were singing, “When the Jewish blood flows from the knife, we’ll all be better off.”
- [UK response to refugee crisis less organised than Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/uk-response-to-refugee-crisis-less-organised-than-kindertransport/) - Dame Stephanie Shirley said the modern response doesn’t compare to how ‘Christian and Jewish activists got 10,000 children out’ Dame Stephanie Shirley arrived in Britain in 1939 as one of 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees who fled the Nazis. She spoke as she received her damehood at Buckingham Palace for services to IT and philanthropy.
- [Sir Erich Reich: ‘I belonged nowhere, but everywhere at the same time’](https://kindertransport.org/2017/12/sir-erich-reich-i-belonged-nowhere-but-everywhere-at-the-same-time/) - The entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist details his life as a Kindertransport orphan in his new memoirs, The Boy In The Statue.
- [Once upon a child](https://kindertransport.org/2017/12/once-upon-a-child/) - On the face of it, the Kindertransport sounds like a highly successful, nay miraculous, operation which enabled thousands of children to escape the clutches of the Nazi regime and the fate of the family members they left behind. However, the lifesaving venture reveals some darker elements that left indelible marks on the lives of the
- [From Vienna with Love (and Other Mixed Emotions)](https://kindertransport.org/2017/12/from-vienna-with-love-and-other-mixed-emotions/) - Peter Wortsman, an American 2G, on Vienna on a fellowship from the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur (the Austrian Society for Literature) encounters a KT2 at the Servittengasse memorial.
- [KIndertransport play at the Bedford Stage Company](https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/kindertransport-play-at-the-bedford-stage-company/) - Playwright Diane Samuels said: “My play does focus on a particular happening at a particular time, yet it also taps into a universal human experience, that of a mother’s separation from her child. Most of all my focus when writing the play is to probe the inner life where memory is shaped by trauma, history
- [German educator recounts stories from kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/german-educator-recounts-stories-from-kindertransport/) - Angelika Rieber, a historian and life-long educator from Frankfurt, Germany, presented research she has done on the program and the stories she’s heard from those saved by it. Rieber began her presentation by explaining the kindertransport, a system by which Jewish children in Germany, specifically Frankfurt for her research, would escape the tightening grasp of
- [Surviving the Holocaust to saving refugee children: Lord Alfred Dubs](https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/surviving-the-holocaust-to-saving-refugee-children-lord-alfred-dubs/) - I’m saying to Theresa May: you know about child refugees, you know Nicholas Winton who organised the Kindertransport from Prague which saved my life; before he died he was a constituent of yours.You used to meet him. Please remember what he did. Please remember that as a country we’re humanitarian. Surely, surely, we can do
- [Survivor On White Supremacists:I Never Thought This Would Happen In the USA](https://kindertransport.org/2017/08/survivor-on-white-supremacistsi-never-thought-this-would-happen-in-the-usa/) - Magie Furst, a Kindertransport survivor in Dallas, Texas knows first hand that hatred corrupts. As a Jewish child in Germany when the Nazis came to power, she saw her life begin to unravel, when even venturing into the streets was hazardous. “Hitler Youth were there to make the Jewish children’s lives as miserable as possible,”
- [Kindertransport follows a young German-Jewish refugee to England in 1939](https://kindertransport.org/2017/09/kindertransport-follows-a-young-german-jewish-refugee-to-england-in-1939/) - Like the stage adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, Diane Samuels' play Kindertransport views the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. Unlike that of Anne Frank, its story extends beyond the Nazi era and into the present.
- [Holocaust Educational Trust on mission to bring stories of Willesden Lane](https://kindertransport.org/2017/09/holocaust-educational-trust-on-mission-to-bring-stories-of-willesden-lane/) - Aimed at students aged between 10 an 13, the project is based on The Children of Willesden Lane, a book which tells the story of Lisa Jura who was brought to England on the Kindertransport. The Trust is urging schools to make the project part of their curriculum in 2018 in order to encourage wider
- [Lord Dubs: Labour’s slowness to act on anti-Semitism let it ‘fester’](https://kindertransport.org/2017/09/lord-dubs-labours-slowness-to-act-on-anti-semitism-let-it-fester/) - Lord Dubs, who escaped the Nazis on a Kindertransport from Prague in the summer of 1939 when he was just six years old, said the Labour leader is now “doing okay” at tackling anti-Semitism. But as a new row over the problem threatened to overshadow the party’s conference in Brighton, the Labour peer warned “you’ve
- [Lord Dubs praises synagogues for work helping refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/09/lord-dubs-praises-synagogues-for-work-helping-refugees/) - Lord Dubs, the Jewish-born peer whose life was saved by the Kindertransport as a child of six, this week paid fulsome tribute to the synagogues in the UK for their work on helping refugees and asylum seekers. Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton organised by the Jewish Labour Movement
- [We Are All Children Here](https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/we-are-all-children-here/) - Paul Mandelbaum writes of his experiences at the November 2016 World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust/Kindertransport Association/Generations of the Shoah International Conference, GENERATIONS TOGETHER, in Southern California.
- [Kindertransport musical to be performed at Maidenhead Synagogue](https://kindertransport.org/2017/04/kindertransport-musical-to-be-performed-at-maidenhead-synagogue/) - The musical narrative tells the story of the Czech ‘Kindertransport’, a rescue operation for Jewish children set up in Prague by the late Sir Nicholas Winton, who lived in Maidenhead. Sir Nicholas, who has a statue at Maidenhead Train Station, helped transport and find foster families for more than 600 Czech children. The music was
- [Peter T. White, globe-trotting National Geographic writer, dies at 92](https://kindertransport.org/2017/07/peter-t-white-globe-trotting-national-geographic-writer-dies-at-92/) - Peter T. White was a National Geographic writer who slogged through tropical rain forests, hiked the Tyrolean Alps, examined addictive and therapeutic uses of the opium poppy and wrote about tribes in the Brazilian jungle who ate their dead as a gesture of respect. Peter Theodor Futterweit was born May 11,1925,in Vienna. His father, a
- [British Kindertransport escapee officially world’s oldest living radio host](https://kindertransport.org/2017/07/british-kindertransport-escapee-officially-worlds-oldest-living-radio-host/) - A British-Israeli journalist who made aliyah in 2004 has been awarded a Guinness World Record as the oldest radio talk show host at the age of 93. Walter Bingham was acknowledged as Israel’s oldest field journalist in 2015, and is honoured by the Guinness Book of Records for his radio show ‘Walter’s World.’ His remarkable
- [Vera Coppard-Leibovic dies; escaped Holocaust age 12 with Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2017/03/vera-coppard-leibovic-dies-escaped-holocaust-age-12-with-kindertransport/) - Vera Coppard-Leibovic had a cause, to educate others about the horrors of the Holocaust, and nothing would stop her from sharing her own experiences, as one of about 10,000 children to escape the Nazis on the Kindertransport trains.
- [Westport Country Playhouse to Host Conversation with Kindertransportee](https://kindertransport.org/2017/03/westport-country-playhouse-to-host-conversation-with-kindertransportee/) - Ivan Backer is the author of "My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism." Backer was able to flee Nazi Europe on the Kindertransport, the "children's trains," organized by Sir Nicholas Winton who almost single-handedly rescued 669 children. Other Kindertransports from Europe were supported by British charities
- [A New Novel Explores Art Theft, History, and Child Refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/03/a-new-novel-explores-art-theft-history-and-child-refugees/) - Ellen Umansky’s debut novel The Fortunate Ones traces a stolen work of art from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles. The painting is “The Bellhop,” a fictional reimagining of the real-life painter Chaim Soutine‘s portraits of bellboys and porters. “The Bellhop” is stolen from Rose’s apartment after Nazis invade Vienna. Rose’s life has
- [Barbara Bedell: Kindertransport, an inspiring program to remember](https://kindertransport.org/2017/04/barbara-bedell-kindertransport-an-inspiring-program-to-remember/) - The annual Holocaust Commemoration Program at Temple Sinai on Highland Avenue in Middletown will be from 7-9 p.m. April 23. It will begin with the solemn lighting of six candles, honoring the memory of 6 million men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust.
- [Holocaust survivor who escaped Czechoslovakia to speak in West Michigan](https://kindertransport.org/2017/04/holocaust-survivor-who-escaped-czechoslovakia-to-speak-in-west-michigan/) - MUSKEGON, MI - Renata Laxova was one of 669 children to escape Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport, which took children to foster homes in Britain from 1938-1939, prior to the start World War II. Eight transports were organized by Sir Nicholas George Winton from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Britain. She will tell her story and answer questions
- [Focus on Kindertransport for Yom HaShoah at NWSS](https://kindertransport.org/2017/04/focus-on-kindertransport-for-yom-hashoah-at-nwss/) - North West Surrey Synagogue (NWSS) held its annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday 23 April. The theme was ‘Recalling the Journey through Folk Art’, focusing on the Kindertransport. The Traveling Exhibition of Memory Quilts, created by the Kindertransport Association was on display, visiting the UK for the first time ever. Anita Grosz, who facilitated the
- [Interfaith campaigners aim to lobby Prime Minister over child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/03/interfaith-campaigners-aim-to-lobby-prime-minister-over-child-refugees/) - There is a ‘real will’ to find homes for child refugees in the UK, campaigners have said, despite a Parliamentary defeat on the issue. On Tuesday, MPs knocked back an attempt to revive a scheme to provide shelter for unaccompanied youngsters fleeing warzones in Syria. Known as the Dubs Amendment, it was inspired by Lord
- [Gustav Metzger, Pioneer of ‘Auto-Destructive Art’, Dies at 90](https://kindertransport.org/2017/03/gustav-metzger-pioneer-of-auto-destructive-art-dies-at-90/) - Gustav Metzger, one of the most provocative and politically-minded anti-artists of the late 20th century, died last week in London, the city where he arrived as a 13-year-old in 1939 on a Kindertransport from Nazi Germany.
- [200+ Kindertransport Survivors and Descendants Urge Support for Refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/200-kindertransport-survivors-and-descendants-urge-support-for-refugees/) - On February 13, over 200 Kindertransport survivors and descendants sent a letter to President Trump, urging him to keep America’s doors open to today’s refugees. Noting that “more than 10 million of today’s 21 million refugees are children,” the letter urges President Trump to keep America’s doors open to refugees. It reads, in part:
- [May government ends limited scheme allowing lone child refugees to Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/may-government-ends-limited-scheme-allowing-lone-child-refugees-to-britain/) - Theresa May’s Conservative government has reneged on any commitment to provide asylum in the UK to lone child refugees languishing in desperate conditions near the port of Calais in France.
- [Holocaust survivor tells her story to pupils](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/holocaust-survivor-tells-her-story-to-pupils/) - At the age of four, Mrs Barnett and her seven-year-old brother travelled across Germany and Holland by train with hundreds of other children from Berlin and arrived in the British port of Harwich. Having been moved several times around South-East England between various foster families, she was finally able to settle in London after the
- [Holocaust survivor's second novel will keep her memory alive](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/holocaust-survivors-second-novel-will-keep-her-memory-alive/) - The life story of a woman who escaped the Nazis on one of the last Kindertransport trains has been published six months after her death. Sylvia’s first book, Laugh or Cry about her childhood growing up in Nazi Germany was published in 2015 and she died as her second book Cry or Laugh was being
- [Closing Our Doors](https://kindertransport.org/2017/03/closing-our-doors/) - In 1939, a refugee ban kept 20,000 Jewish children out of the U.S. Our rejection of refugees is an inextricable part of the American story, and Trump’s ban hews to that narrative more than we’d prefer to recall. One such black spot on our history mirrors the present moment particularly closely. In the late 1930s,
- [Kindertransport peer launches fund for refugees after government U-turn](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/kindertransport-peer-launches-fund-for-refugees-after-government-u-turn/) - Lord Dubs, who was a Kindertransport refugee himself, is launching a fund to help bring children fleeing war and persecution to Britain, the JC can reveal. The Jewish Labour peer and 10 of his fellow Kinder have set up the Alf Dubs Children’s Fund and donated between £500 and £1,000 each. They say they were
- [Sir Nicholas Winton would be 'horrified'  to scrap child refugee scheme](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/sir-nicholas-winton-would-be-horrified-to-scrap-child-refugee-scheme/) - A refugee rights campaigner has said he is ‘bitterly disappointed’ by the government’s decision to stop providing sanctuary for lone child refugees. Lord Dubs, who came to the UK shortly before the Second World War as part of the Kindertransport organised by Maidenhead’s Sir Nicholas Winton, blasted the announcement from the Home Office on Wednesday,
- [They Escaped The Holocaust As Children. Now They Have A Message For Trump.](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/they-escaped-the-holocaust-as-children-now-they-have-a-message-for-trump/) - Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled Nazi Germany and other countries as children have a request for President Donald Trump: “Keep the doors open to refugees.” In a letter to Trump released Monday, more than 200 family members and survivors of the Kindertransport a program that sent around 10,000 Jewish child refugees to Britain from Nazi
- [Why we must protect world’s youngest refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/why-we-must-protect-worlds-youngest-refugees/) - Several times a week for the past decade, as I have left Liverpool Street Station from the Ipswich train, I walk past a bronze statue of an anxious-looking boy and girl with their suitcases. The statues, part of a series in the station commemorating the Kindertransport and its leader, Sir Nicholas Winton, are a reminder
- [Daughter of 'British Schindler' urges May to help more child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/daughter-of-british-schindler-urges-may-to-help-more-child-refugees/) - The daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organised the Czech Kindertransport operation that saved 669 children on the eve of the second world war, has called on Theresa May to remember her father’s example and “do the right thing” by reconsidering the decision to close the Dubs scheme for vulnerable refugee children.
- [UK ending child refugee program proposed by Kindertransport passenger](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/uk-ending-child-refugee-program-proposed-by-kindertransport-passenger/) - Britain is ending a program to take in child refugees proposed by a politician who arrived in the country by Kindertransport during World War II. Proponents of the program had wanted the United Kingdom to take in as many as 3,000 lone child refugees, but the government said Wednesday that the initiative would end in
- [Meeting the Holocaust survivors who made me a better person](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/meeting-the-holocaust-survivors-who-made-me-a-better-person/) - In the summer of 2011, I was sent to interview a Jewish couple at their home in Giffnock, just south of Glasgow. Henry and Ingrid Wuga: Holocaust survivors in their late 80s who had come to the UK on the Kindertransport when they were 15 and 14. Henry and Ingrid’s capacity for remembering is inexhaustible,
- [Meeting the Holocaust survivors who made me a better person](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/meeting-the-holocaust-survivors-who-made-me-a-better-person-2/) - In the summer of 2011, I was sent to interview a Jewish couple at their home in Giffnock, just south of Glasgow. Henry and Ingrid Wuga: Holocaust survivors in their late 80s who had come to the UK on the Kindertransport when they were 15 and 14. They had already told their story once that
- [The Kindertransport saved my sister. Britain must make that effort again](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/the-kindertransport-saved-my-sister-britain-must-make-that-effort-again/) - I think often about the refugees that we in the UK aren’t helping, especially the unaccompanied children wandering about Europe. I probably feel so strongly because at the age of eight (I am now 86), I acquired a big sister who was a refugee.
- [The US closed its borders to refugees again. Have we learned nothing?](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/the-us-closed-its-borders-to-refugees-again-have-we-learned-nothing/) - From 1938 to 1940, England accepted about 10,000 child refugees from Germany and other German-annexed territories, under a program called the Kindertransport. Meanwhile, in the United States, a congressional bill to accept 20,000 child refugees under a similar program died in committee, because one of the arguments against the bill was that accepting children without
- [Reaction to the Trump ban on immigration has traveled quickly.](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/reaction-to-the-trump-ban-on-immigration-has-traveled-quickly/) - Connecting to the plight of these children, the Kindertransport letter to the president points out that “in the months just before the start of World War II, nearly 10,000 children were sent from Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. These children’s lives – our lives, and our parents’ and grandparents’ lives –
- [Children of Nazi travel ban stand up for children of Trump travel ban](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/children-of-nazi-travel-ban-stand-up-for-children-of-trump-travel-ban/) - In one corner of the Jewish community, reaction to the Trump ban on immigration has traveled quickly. Almost as soon as the ban on people from seven Muslim-majority nations entering the U.S. went into effect, an organization made up of mostly Jews who were rescued from the Holocaust via transport to Great Britain, and their
- [Kindertransport Holocaust Survivors Make Impassioned Plea vs Muslim Ban](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/kindertransport-holocaust-survivors-make-impassioned-plea-vs-muslim-ban/) - In the months before the start of World War II, 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved on a “Kindertransport” or children’s transport. Now these “children” are making their voices heard to fight for current refugees hoping to come to America.
- [Britain’s Kinder slam May for child refuge U-turn](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/britains-kinder-slam-may-for-child-refuge-u-turn/) - Sir Erich Reich, who arrived in the UK aged four, and whose parents were subsequently murdered at Auschwitz, said the government had “gone back on its word” to bring in 3,000 unaccompanied children to the UK for safe haven.
- [On Holocaust Memorial Day, let us remember our duty to child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/on-holocaust-memorial-day-let-us-remember-our-duty-to-child-refugees/) - Holocaust Memorial Day is a time of great reflection for many of us across the country. Today I will think about the Jewish family members and friends I left behind in Prague when I was put on a train to London Liverpool Street at six years old; about the courage of men and women who
- [Children saved from Nazis by 'British Schindler' plan memorial to parents](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/children-saved-from-nazis-by-british-schindler-plan-memorial-to-parents-2/) - A memorial recognising the agonising moral choice made by parents of the 669 mostly Jewish children sent away is to be constructed in Prague’s main railway station, from where eight evacuation trains departed in the spring and summer of 1939, after Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.
- [‘I just wanted to be British’](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/i-just-wanted-to-be-british/) - There were times when Gerald Wiener tried to forget everything about his homeland. Nobody could have been more anti-German than I was, from the day I arrived,” he said. “I never wanted to speak German, I never wanted to know anything about Germany. I wanted to become British. I wanted to assimilate.”
- [Holocaust survivor Bernard Grunberg tells how he never saw his family again](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/holocaust-survivor-bernard-grunberg-tells-how-he-never-saw-his-family-again/) - A Derby Holocaust survivor has spoken of his "extremely lucky" escape in a heartfelt video aimed to tell the city's students the true horror of the horrific Nazi regime. As part of his special visit, which took place to mark National Holocaust Memorial Day, the inspirational survivor, from Alvaston, also spoke of his life in
- [Memorial For Sir Nicholas Winton, London 2016](https://kindertransport.org/2017/02/memorial-for-sir-nicholas-winton-london-2016/)
- [An ordinary mother’s letters and poems](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/an-ordinary-mothers-letters-and-poems/) - Dancing on a Powder Keg: The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in the Lengthening Shadow of Hitler’s Third Reich; Her Poems from the Theresienstadt Ghetto,” by Ilse Weber (translated from German by Michal Schwartz). Bunim & Bannigan. 340 pages. $34.95 It is unlikely that you have ever heard of
- [Holocaust survivors among those attending Enfield memorial service](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/holocaust-survivors-among-those-attending-enfield-memorial-service/) - The duo are Bernd Koschland, who escaped persecution by coming to Britain as a child on the Kindertransport, and Gerald Granston, who fled Germany on the SS St Louis cruise liner and received a British Empire Medal in the New Year’s honours for his services to Holocaust education.
- [Child survivor of concentration camps speaks out on Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/child-survivor-of-concentration-camps-speaks-out-on-holocaust-memorial-day/) - The Mayor of Newham said: “During World War II, this city and this country came to the aid of thousands of Jewish children escaping Nazism through the Kindertransport, but it is absolutely undeniable that the British Government did too little to prevent and alleviate suffering during the Holocaust.” Sir Robin Wales said that Newham “absolutely
- [Children saved from Nazis by 'British Schindler' plan memorial to parents](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/children-saved-from-nazis-by-british-schindler-plan-memorial-to-parents/) - Their 11th-hour escape on the eve of the second world war became the stuff of legend, earning international recognition for the man who organised it, Sir Nicholas Winton. Now people spirited out of German-occupied Czechoslovakia when they were children are to pay homage to previously unsung heroes in the affair – the parents who boarded
- [From Dortmund to the West Midlands in 1939](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/from-dortmund-to-the-west-midlands-in-1939/) - “At the time I didn’t understand why I was being sent like a parcel with a label to a strange country, with strange people and a strange language. But I know because of that I survived, when others didn’t. I think I have spent my life making sure that it was worthy of that survival.”
- [Tributes pour in to Holocaust survivor and 'great man', Otto Deutsch](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/tributes-pour-in-to-holocaust-survivor-and-great-man-otto-deutsch/) - Mr Deutsch, who lived at Surbiton Avenue, Southchurch, visited schools and various organisations delivering talks about his life and working tirelessly to commemorate and educate people about the Holocaust across the country.
- [Man who escaped death by Nazis is speaker at Dorchester Holocaust Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/man-who-escaped-death-by-nazis-is-speaker-at-dorchester-holocaust-memorial/) - Harry Grenville will be at Dorchester's Corn Exchange on Friday, January 27, for the free event starting at 12.30pm. It is being organised by the South West Dorset Multicultural Network and features several speakers during the hour-long commemoration.
- [Lord Alf Dubs to speak at Camden Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/lord-alf-dubs-to-speak-at-camden-holocaust-memorial-day/) - Lord Dubs was one of 10,000 children rescued by the Kindertransport, an organised British effort to rescue Jews from Nazi Germany and elsewhere in Europe during the 1930s. He will speak at the British Library Theatre in Euston Road from 9–10am on Friday, January 27
- [Survivor remembers escape from Holocaust via Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2016/11/survivor-remembers-escape-from-holocaust-via-kindertransport/) - For more than a decade, Holocaust survivor and KTA member Dave Lux has been traveling around Southern California telling people about his experience as one of the 669 children on a Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia, a rescue effort before World War II that saved nearly 10,000 Jewish children in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany.
- [Saved by the Kindertransport: Meet Two Inspiring Holocaust Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/2016/11/saved-by-the-kindertransport-meet-two-inspiring-holocaust-survivors/) - Seventy-eight years ago this week, on December 2, 1938, the first Kindertransport left Germany. In the following months over 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved from Nazi-occupied territories, because their parents were willing to separate from them. In England they were placed in foster families, schools and shelters. After the war, many of these children
- [Dr. Ruth made ‘orgasm’ a household word. But her real passion? Dollhouses.](https://kindertransport.org/2016/12/dr-ruth-made-orgasm-a-household-word-but-her-real-passion-dollhouses/) - Ruth Westheimer was 10 years old in 1939, when she boarded a train leaving Germany with 300 other Jewish children. She brought along one doll, a favorite named Matilda. But a younger child was crying inconsolably, so Westheimer gave the little girl her doll. Because, she says, “she needed it more.” Today Dr. Ruth, America’s
- [Rose Evansky, a Pioneer in Women’s Hairstyling, Dies at 94](https://kindertransport.org/2016/12/rose-evansky-a-pioneer-in-womens-hairstyling-dies-at-94/) - She was born Rosel Lerner on May 30, 1922, in Worms, south of Frankfurt. Her parents were immigrants from Poland. In 1938, when the family was living in Ludwigshafen, her father was arrested and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. Speaking only German and Yiddish, she was sent to Britain on one of the last
- [Community pays tribute to Kinder survivor Otto Deutsch](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/community-pays-tribute-to-kinder-survivor-otto-deutsch/) - Otto Deutsch, a well-known Kindertransport survivor who “never forgot ­Vienna” after forging a new life in London in 1939 when he was 12 years old, has died at the age of 88. He spent years engaged in Holocaust education, recalling his agonising separation from his family, and how – years later – he went back
- [UK lord who fled Nazis says Brexit shouldn’t block child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/uk-lord-who-fled-nazis-says-brexit-shouldnt-block-child-refugees/) - 80 years after he escaped Europe on Kindertransport, Lord Alfred Dubs criticizes new criteria for asylum seekers. Nearly 80 years since he arrived from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Labor politician Lord Alfred Dubs said he did not believe his adopted country has lost its willingness to help youngsters fleeing persecution.
- [Child refugees forced to work for nothing after leaving Calais](https://kindertransport.org/2016/11/child-refugees-forced-to-work-for-nothing-after-leaving-calais/) - Child refugees sent from the demolished Calais “jungle” to supposedly safe welcome centres across France claim they have been pressed into forced labour. Legal interviews by the charity Safe Passage UK with unaccompanied minors dispersed from the refugee camp to France’s official reception centres have uncovered allegations that children have been forced into unpaid work.
- [‘Kindertransport’ Britons help today’s child refugees in Calais](https://kindertransport.org/2016/09/kindertransport-britons-help-todays-child-refugees-in-calais/) - British beneficiaries of the Kinder-transport programme have begun raising funds to help the scores of unaccompanied refugee children stranded in Calais. Almost 80 years after Britain sanctioned a mission to help children escape the antisemitic aftermath of Kristallnacht, Britain’s Jewish community is raising funding to evacuate at least 120 child refugees identified as having the
- [Longtime KTA Member interviewed on Democracy Now](https://kindertransport.org/2016/09/longtime-kta-member-interviewed-on-democracy-now/) - Former HIAS client, Kindertransport survivor and refugee advocate Manfred Lindenbaum attended the Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, convened on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly by President Obama. The next morning, Lindenbaum, 84, was interviewed live on Democracy Now!, sharing his personal experiences as a refugee and responding to Republican presidential candidate
- [Survivor Lore Rosen: Saved by Kindertransport and self-reliance](https://kindertransport.org/2016/09/survivor-lore-rosen-saved-by-kindertransport-and-self-reliance/) - On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, a date that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, 14-year-old Lore Rosen (nee Baron) left for school from the fifth-floor, walk-up apartment where she lived with her mother in Mannheim, Germany. Just outside, the owner of the small grocery next door suddenly intercepted her. “Go to the
- [Nicholas Winton memorial service honours Holocaust hero](https://kindertransport.org/2016/05/nicholas-winton-memorial-service-honours-holocaust-hero/) - A memorial service has been held for Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued hundreds of children from the Holocaust in the months before World War Two. Some 28 of those he saved as children were among 400 people who attended the event at London's Guildhall, along with Czech, Slovak and UK government representatives. Sir Nicholas organised
- [KTA Board Member Ilse Melamid on Austrian Radio](https://kindertransport.org/2016/07/kta-board-member-ilse-melamid-on-austrian-radio/) - Ilse, a native of Vienna, is interviewed on a recent visit. In German.
- [Letters From Children on the First Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2016/07/letters-from-children-on-the-first-kindertransport/) - In her blog, the Wiener Library’s Digital Engagement Manager Jessica Green discusses letters written from children on the first Kindertransport to their families back in Germany. On 1 December 1938, approximately 200 unaccompanied German-Jewish child refugees boarded a train towards the Hook of Holland, where a ferry carried them to their new home in England.
- [UC Santa Barbara physicist shared Nobel Prize in chemistry](https://kindertransport.org/2016/04/uc-santa-barbara-physicist-shared-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/) - A Holocaust survivor who became founding director of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, Kohn helped make it possible to calculate more accurately how electrons flowed through materials. Decades later, scientists used his theories in computer modeling of complex molecules. "Physics isn't what I do; it is what I am," Kohn
- ['It was life and death for us and it's the same today'](https://kindertransport.org/2016/04/it-was-life-and-death-for-us-and-its-the-same-today/) - With the government refusing to let 3,000 child refugees enter the UK, Guardian readers tell how they escaped the Holocaust – and why Britain must step up again.
- [Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, dies at 93](https://kindertransport.org/2016/05/walter-kohn-nobel-prize-winner-in-chemistry-dies-at-93/) - In the fall of 1939, Kohn left his native Vienna on one of the last transports of children to England, where he was interned as an “enemy alien.” The following year he was shipped to Canada, where he subsequently joined the Canadian army as an infantryman. His parents, Salomon and Gittel Kohn, died in Auschwitz.
- [Alf Dubs: ‘Antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism are all equally abhorrent’](https://kindertransport.org/2016/05/alf-dubs-antisemitism-islamophobia-and-racism-are-all-equally-abhorrent/) - The peer who fled the Nazis, aged six, on Labour’s troubles – and his attempts to make the government accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees.
- [Former Child Refugees, Rescued From Nazis, Urge U.K. To Take Syrian Kids](https://kindertransport.org/2016/05/former-child-refugees-rescued-from-nazis-urge-u-k-to-take-syrian-kids/) - In her suburban London row house, Margit Goodman, 94, sits wrapped in blankets in her favorite recliner. She was a girl of 17 when she first came to Britain, escaping from her native Prague just before the Germans invaded. She remembers the exact date: June 5, 1939. The Goodmans and a number of former evacuees,
- [An unsung refugee who changed the North dies at 89](https://kindertransport.org/2016/05/an-unsung-refugee-who-changed-the-north-dies-at-89/) - Abrahamson is remembered most for two big contributions. One is his four decades of work at the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources — known after 1966 as the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. The other is the part he played in the creation of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board in
- [Kindertransport survivor to speak at Yom Hashoah observance in Florida](https://kindertransport.org/2016/03/kindertransport-survivor-to-speak-at-yom-hashoah-observance-in-florida/) - Each year the Holocaust Center provides a community program for Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Day of Remembrance. This year's commemoration, scheduled for May 1 at 4 p.m., will be held in the gymnasium at The Roth Family Jewish Community Center, Maitland, Florida. There is no charge to attend, and reservations are not required. For additional
- [Walter Kohn, onetime refugee who became Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies.](https://kindertransport.org/2016/04/walter-kohn-onetime-refugee-who-became-nobel-laureate-in-chemistry-dies/) - Walter Kohn, whose parents saved his life by sending him out of Nazi-dominated Europe before the outbreak of World War II and who became a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work vital in developing new materials for electronics and medicine, died April 19. The Nobel Prize — which he shared with mathematician
- [Walter Kohn, Nobel-Winning Scientist, Dies at 93](https://kindertransport.org/2016/04/walter-kohn-nobel-winning-scientist-dies-at-93/) - Walter Kohn, an Austrian-born American scientist and former refugee who shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry—a subject that he had last formally studied in high school — died on last Tuesday in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 93. As a teenager, Dr. Kohn escaped to England from Nazi-occupied Vienna less than a month before World
- [Susie Lind talks about her rescue through the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2016/01/susie-lind-talks-about-her-rescue-through-the-kindertransport/) - Susie Lind, who was rescued from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport, spoke about her experiences for the first time in almost 80 years. Ms Lind contributed to the BBC One documentary programme ‘Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton’. The programme celebrates the life and work of Sir Nicholas
- [Pianist’s appeals raise £18,000 for refugee hostel](https://kindertransport.org/2016/03/pianists-appeals-raise-18000-for-refugee-hostel/) - Generous theatregoers have raised thousands of pounds for a homeless hostel after a direct appeal by musician and writer Mona Golabek to audiences at her one-woman show. The money will go to the nearby Cardinal Hume Centre, which works with homeless young people and families with housing problems.
- [Trove of UK love letters sheds light on rescue of German Jewish kinder](https://kindertransport.org/2016/03/trove-of-uk-love-letters-sheds-light-on-rescue-of-german-jewish-kinder/) - In ‘Their Promised Land,’ Ian Buruma pays tribute to his British grandparents, who opened youth hostel to save 12 young Berliners before WWII
- [Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86](https://kindertransport.org/2016/03/geoffrey-h-hartman-scholar-who-saw-literary-criticism-as-art-dies-at-86/) - Geoffrey H. Hartman, a Kind from Frankfurt and a literary critic whose work took in the Romantic poets, Judaic sacred texts, Holocaust studies, deconstruction and the workings of memory — and took on the very function of criticism itself — died on March 14 at his home in Hamden, Conn. He was 86.
- [Learning the lessons of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2015/12/learning-the-lessons-of-the-kindertransport/) - The plight of unaccompanied children during the current refugee crisis resonates in two important ways. First, the focus on children strikes an emotional chord and second, we inevitably recall the Kindertransport, an important chapter in both Jewish and British refugee history.
- [Kind Manny Lindenbaum and granddaughter at the White House](https://kindertransport.org/2015/12/kind-manny-lindenbaum-and-granddaughter-at-the-white-house/) - Kind Manny Lindenbaum and KT3 granddaughter Lauren light the menorah with President Obama.
- [Award winning Pipeline theatre take Kindertransport play on UK tour](https://kindertransport.org/2016/01/award-winning-pipeline-theatre-take-kindertransport-play-on-uk-tour/) - Following the success of their 2015 Edinburgh hit Spillikin, Cornwall’s Pipeline Theatre revives its debut play Transports for a national tour in Spring 2016. The play – described by the Cornish Guardian as “brave, bold and brilliant” – tells the story of a volatile teenager who is shunted from one foster home to another in
- [Artist becomes subject in new Tate exhibition](https://kindertransport.org/2015/10/artist-becomes-subject-in-new-tate-exhibition/) - Works by celebrated portrait, landscape painter Frank Auerbach who fled Nazi Germany as a child find their way to London’s top art gallery. Frank Auerbach has been described as Britain’s greatest living painter. With a flair for the abstract and urban landscape, he has worked out of his north London Camden Town studio for six
- [Stunning Vintage Photos Reveal The Brief Life Of Artist Eva Hesse](https://kindertransport.org/2015/11/stunning-vintage-photos-reveal-the-brief-life-of-artist-eva-hesse/) - A documentary set for release in April 2016 will reveal never-before-seen footage and writings of Eva Hesse, illuminating the short life of the extraordinary artist. From escaping Nazi Germany with her sister on a Kindertransport when she was only 2 years old to redefining sculpture in the 1960s, Hesse’s life is movie-worthy. Living in New
- [What the Holocaust can teach us about the migrant crisis](https://kindertransport.org/2015/11/what-the-holocaust-can-teach-us-about-the-migrant-crisis/) - Ruth Barnett, A Kindertransport refugee reflects on genocide, and what it means in a Europe dealing with advancing Islamophobia and a 'refugee crisis'. The very least we can and should do is to treat migrants decently as human beings equal to ourselves, and provide what we can for them in terms of basic necessities like
- [OPINION – Join drive for new Kindertransport to save refugee children](https://kindertransport.org/2015/11/opinion-join-drive-for-new-kindertransport-to-save-refugee-children/) - What level of desperation would drive me to flee my home with, or without, my family and leave everything in my life behind? This is a question I think many Europeans have been asking themselves as the current refugee crisis has unfolded before our eyes. But I know it is also a very personal question
- [Is Britain still a port in a storm for refugees?](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/is-britain-still-a-port-in-a-storm-for-refugees/) - As Cameron announces England will accept 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020, a former Kindertransport child wonders what happened to the great Britain that saved his life
- [Call to recognise the teacher who risked his life to save children](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/call-to-recognise-the-teacher-who-risked-his-life-to-save-children/) - He helped to save around 700 children from the Nazis, seeing most of them off at the train station in Prague, watching as they were whisked away from genocide and on to their new homes in Britain. Despite not being Jewish, he quit his job teaching in Dorset to risk his life forging papers for
- [Far From Home, In Need of Help - But From Where?](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/far-from-home-in-need-of-help-but-from-where/) - I once shared a house with a man who shouldn’t have been alive. Karel Reisz, the great British-Czech filmmaker, was a kindertransport child rescued from Hitler’s Europe in the closest nick of time. Unprecedentedly, one morning the BBC broke into the news to ask for volunteers willing to take one or more German or Austrian
- [Citing Kindertransport, 100 British Rabbis Demand Open Door for Refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/citing-kindertransport-100-british-rabbis-demand-open-door-for-refugees/) - In a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the rabbis and cantors referenced the 10,000 Jewish children that the United Kingdom rescued from the Nazis between 1938 and 1940. Two of the people delivering the letter Monday were themselves members of the Kindertransport rescue operation that brought Jewish children to the U.K, the British
- [Kindertransport - BBC radio](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/kindertransport-bbc-radio/) - In 1999, historian David Cesarani went in search of these children for a Radio 4 documentary, to find out how they had adapted to life in Britain, and to the eventual realisation of the terrible fate of most of their parents. With a new wave of refugees dominating the news, the story of the Kindertransport
- [Four thousand Syrian refugees every year to be given homes in UK, David Cam](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/four-thousand-syrian-refugees-every-year-to-be-given-homes-in-uk-david-cam/) - Orphans of the conflict would be given priority in a programme which Mr Cameron likened to the “modern equivalent of the Kindertransport” scheme, when Britain gave sanctuary to tens of thousands of children during the Second World War.
- [Don’t believe the lies about UK support for the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/dont-believe-the-lies-about-uk-support-for-the-kindertransport/) - Since Hitler had come to power in 1933, Tory-led governments had been doing their utmost to block the rising tide of refugees from Germany – mostly Jewish – from entering the UK. Sadly, and piteously, history has a way of repeating itself... The formal arguments used to refuse Jewish refugees admittance to the UK then
- [Winton’s Children Share Their Stories](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/wintons-children-share-their-stories/) - Nicholas Winton organized the escape of 669 children, mostly Jews, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. After Mr. Winton died on July 1, at age 106, The New York Times asked the survivors, the original Winton’s Children, and their descendants — whose numbers now exceed 6,000 — to share their stories.
- [How the Kindertransport could provide lessons for helping Syrian refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/how-the-kindertransport-could-provide-lessons-for-helping-syrian-refugees/) - Recently, Rabbi Goldsmith accompanied some of those refugee children — now elderly adults — to a meeting at Parliament with young Syrian refugees. “These are people in their 80s and 90s ... but they absolutely recognized in young men who had made it from Syria, themselves when they themselves were teenagers.” At that meeting, Goldsmith
- [PM: Rescue of refugees from Syria ‘modern equivalent of Kindertransport'](https://kindertransport.org/2015/09/pm-rescue-of-refugees-from-syria-modern-equivalent-of-kindertransport/) - Prime Minister David Cameron has said the 20,000 Syrians he intends to accept into the UK over the next five years are “the modern-day equivalent of the Kindertransport”.
- [The Jewish children who found refuge in Crawley Down](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/the-jewish-children-who-found-refuge-in-crawley-down/) - On 25 November the BBC Home Service broadcast a nationwide appeal for foster homes: and by the end of the year representatives of the MCCG were scouring Germany and Austria for those children most at risk. Among those who immediately responded to the appeal for homes for them was Althea Davis from Crawley Down.
- [Forgotten heroes of the kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/forgotten-heroes-of-the-kindertransports/) - Nicholas Winton deserves all the praise he has received, but when your obituary (2 July) states that he “modestly insisted” that Trevor Chadwick was the real hero, he may well have just been saying what he believed. It was Chadwick who was stationed in Prague and had to select the children (the British guarantors who
- [KTA Member Alice Masters on Canadian television](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/kta-member-alice-masters-on-canadian-television/) - Alice Masters, who was a "Winton Kind" remembers.
- [RIP Nicholas Winton, Who Saved Hundreds of Children from the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/rip-nicholas-winton-who-saved-hundreds-of-children-from-the-holocaust/) - Those who survived thanks to his efforts still refer to themselves as “Winton’s Children.” “One saw the problem there, that a lot of these children were in danger, and you had to get them to what was called a safe haven, and there was no organization to do that. Why did I do it? Why
- [CTV News program on Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/2015/07/ctv-news-program-on-nicholas-winton/) - KTA member Alice Masters is interviewed. Watch online
- [Die Geschichtensammlerin](https://kindertransport.org/2015/01/die-geschichtensammlerin/) - Article in the Suddeutsch Zeitung about young historian Lilly Maier and the research and writing she is doing on the Kindertransports.
- [Pupils get visit from children saved as part of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2015/04/pupils-get-visit-from-children-saved-as-part-of-kindertransport/) - THE memories of children rescued from Nazi Germany and brought to Dovercourt more than 75 years ago have been shared with pupils. Five of the children saved as part of Kindertransport have relived their experiences during a visit to Harwich and Dovercourt High School. They were helping pupils with an Exits and Entrances project, in
- [Bill Graham’s history in rock ‘n’ roll, activism at Skirball](https://kindertransport.org/2015/05/bill-grahams-history-in-rock-n-roll-activism-at-skirball/) - Bill Graham launched the psychedelic music era at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and the Fillmore East in New York, with bands such as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Graham was a child of the Holocaust, and this exhibition brings that story to light.
- [Vienna to host Kindertransport museum](https://kindertransport.org/2014/12/vienna-to-host-kindertransport-museum/) - Vienna will be the home of what organizers are calling the world’s first permanent museum dedicated to the story of the Kindertransport. The memorial museum “For the Child” is set to open in the center of the Austrian capital on Wednesday. The Dec. 10 opening is on the 76th anniversary of the departure of the
- [Kindertransport Reunion, London June 20-21, 1989](https://kindertransport.org/2015/01/kindertransport-reunion-london-june-20-21-1989/) - KTA member Olga Drucker writes about the very first Kindertransport Reunion: "We came alone. We were as young as 4 months, as old as 17 years. Most were never to see their parents again. I was one of the luckier ones. After 6 years in England, I was reunited with my parents in New York.
- [Stage Door: The Pianist of Willesden Lane](https://kindertransport.org/2014/07/stage-door-the-pianist-of-willesden-lane/) - Mona Golabek's tribute to her mother's experience in the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that sent Jewish children to Britain prior to WWII, is mesmerizing. The Pianist of Willesden Lane, a story of bravery and survival now at 59E59 Theaters, should be required viewing.
- [The KTA Letter regarding unaccompanied child immigrants to the US](https://kindertransport.org/2014/08/the-kta-letter-regarding-unaccompanied-child-immigrants-to-the-us/) - The Kindertransport Association, which represents many of the surviving “children” (now American citizens in their 80s) and their descendants, urges that the unaccompanied children arriving in the United States today receive the respect, protection and support that they require in order to rebuild their lives. To read, download and send the complete letter: https://www.sendspace.com/file/1vxuac
- [Hard work pays off as Kindertransport Farm gets listed status](https://kindertransport.org/2014/09/hard-work-pays-off-as-kindertransport-farm-gets-listed-status/) - The Kindertransport Farm in Millisle, Northern Ireland has secured listed status, after leading a long campaign to ensure the historic site was properly protected. Kindertransport Farm is closely linked to the Holocaust and Northern Ireland's own war history, especially the past it played in saving the lives of so many Jewish Children.
- [‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton: I wasn’t heroic. I was never in danger](https://kindertransport.org/2014/11/british-schindler-nicholas-winton-i-wasnt-heroic-i-was-never-in-danger/) - Now 105, the man who helped more than 600 Jewish children escape the Nazis before the second war war has been hailed as a hero around the world. He tells a different story …
- [Paddington Bear inspired by Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/2014/12/paddington-bear-inspired-by-kindertransports/) - Paddington’s 88-year-old creator, Michael Bond reveals his inspiration for the kindly bear: the Jewish evacuee children he remembered seeing in the train stations of London during the Kindertransport of the late 1930s. “They all had a label round their neck with their name and address on and a little case or package containing all their
- [Escaping Hitler Kindertransport: From Austria to England](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/escaping-hitler-kindertransport-from-austria-to-england/) - Every spring, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, those who died under Nazi persecution are honored in ceremonies throughout the world; and those who survived it recall what they experienced. Anita Weisbord is among them. When Hitler’s army annexed Austria to the German Reich in March of 1938, Weisbord’s homeland suddenly became unrecognizable. “That was the end
- [Escaping the Nazis, with a hero's help](https://kindertransport.org/2014/06/escaping-the-nazis-with-a-heros-help/) - In late April, the CBS program “60 Minutes” aired an extraordinary report titled “Saving the Children,” about Sir Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who in 1939 helped 669 children, mostly Jews, escape Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia. Renata Laxova was one of those kids. Laxova, 82, is an emeritus professor of genetics at UW-Madison. Last week, she
- [Lindenbaum Bicycle Odyssey - Returning After 76 Years](https://kindertransport.org/2014/06/lindenbaum-bicycle-odyssey-returning-after-76-years/) - This is a story which started 76 years ago when the Nazis kicked my family out of our home in Unna. My brother Siegfried and I were refugee children who survived while my parents and sister did not. Today, I am retracing the story back to my home town with my wife, three children, their
- [BORDENTOWN: Middle school hosts Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2014/06/bordentown-middle-school-hosts-holocaust-survivor/) - “What was the hardest part of your experience during the Kindertransport?” and “How do you feel about Germany today?” are just two of the questions Bordentown Regional Middle School students asked of Holocaust survivor Norbert Bikales during his visit to the school on May 30. Mr. Bikales told the audience of 180 eighth-graders, teaching staff,
- [The sole survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/the-sole-survivor/) - In the five-year run of Dandelions Flowers and Gifts' "Eugene's Favorite Mom" award, there had never been a nomination letter quite like it. Written by brothers Sidney and Kenneth Brown, the essay described the remarkable life story of their mother, Charlotte Brown, who turned 90 on April 2.
- [Holocaust survivors demand help for Syrian refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/holocaust-survivors-demand-help-for-syrian-refugees/) - A Berlin-based artists' collective is pressuring the German government to take in more Syrian asylum seekers. It is supported by two Berlin Jews who survived the Holocaust thanks to asylum via the KIndertransport in the UK. Grateful for their fate, they now want to help Syrian children escape the civil war raging in their country.
- [1939 letter found, Winton's plea to FDR to save Jewish kids](https://kindertransport.org/2014/05/1939-letter-found-wintons-plea-to-fdr-to-save-jewish-kids/) - An archivist makes a stunning find after a 60 Minutes story airs about Sir Nick Winton, the Londoner who saved 669 children from the Nazis. Last month, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon told the remarkable story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker in London who saved 669 Czech children from the Nazis during WWII. He
- [Saving the children](https://kindertransport.org/2014/04/saving-the-children/) - Briton Nicholas Winton helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war. "Saving the Children"aired on April 27, 2014 on CBS news program 60 Mnutes. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe and Vanessa Fica, producers. Watch the video and read the transcript online: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-the-children-during-world-war-11-60-minutes/
- [The Things She Carried](https://kindertransport.org/2014/04/the-things-she-carried/) - The story of how KTA member Alice Eberstark and her two sisters made it onto one of Winton's trains is the subject of this week's 60 Minutes Overtime feature. "Alice has one of the most heart-wrenching stories to tell," says Radliffe. "She remembers very clearly, before they left home, her father sitting on the edge
- [Yom HaShoah Service](https://kindertransport.org/2014/04/yom-hashoah-service/) - n observance of Yom HaShoah, congregants at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah, Wilmette gathered for a special memorial service on Sunday evening, April 27. The program highlighted children of the Holocaust. Each person attending lit a candle in memory of those that perished. Two hidden children and one individual that was part of the Kindertransport
- [Several events to focus on Kindertransport mission](https://kindertransport.org/2014/04/several-events-to-focus-on-kindertransport-mission/) - The Kindertransport will be the focus of several events in May in Utica and Rome, NY. At 2 p.m. on May 18, Karl Buchholz, a Kindertransport survivor, will speak at the Jewish Community Center in Utica. The play by Diane Samuels, "Kindertransport," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. June 5-7 at Rome Community Theater, with
- [Kindertransport survivor shares harrowing account](https://kindertransport.org/2014/03/kindertransport-survivor-shares-harrowing-account/) - Otto Decker, saved by the Kindertransport rescue mission before World War II broke out, shared his story of survival during a recent Forum discussion group meeting in West Delray's Vizcaya community. Decker, 84 and a Boca Raton resident, was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was one of a group of 50 Jewish children who were
- [German Radio story on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2014/04/german-radio-story-on-the-kindertransport/) - Notizen aus England: Zug ins Ungewisse Eine Reise ins Ungewisse: Eltern und Kinder wussten nicht, ob sie einander jemals wiedersehen würden. 75 Jahre nach dem ersten Kindertransport erzählen drei Deutsche von dieser Reise und ihrem Leben danach. Und der Dokumentarfilmer Sir David Attenborough erinnert sich an die beiden deutschen Mädchen, die in seiner Familie aufgenommen
- [World Kindertransport Day on CNN](https://kindertransport.org/2014/02/world-kindertransport-day-on-cnn/) - Christiane Amanpour's story on World Kindertransport Day, the seventy fifth anniversary of the Kindertransports, is viewable online, on youtube.
- [World Kindertransport Day](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/world-kindertransport-day/) - Radio interview on the site specific play "suitcases" being performed at a train station Liverpool in November, 2013. In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of 9-10 November 1938, and the start of the Second World War nearly 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to safety
- [Kindertransport survivors tell escape story](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/kindertransport-survivors-tell-escape-story/) - Seventy-five years ago, 7-year-old Susanne Goldsmith watched her father wave goodbye, clutching a handkerchief in a crowd of people at a railroad station in Vienna, Austria. Burbank residents Goldsmith, 82, and David Meyerhof, whose mother was on the Kindertransport from Berlin, shared their stories at the Burbank Town Center Monday in commemoration of World Kindertransport
- [Station hosts re-enactment of Kindertransports' arrival](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/station-hosts-re-enactment-of-kindertransports-arrival/) - The concourse and platform of the Bristol railway station was the setting for Suitcase – a play about the first arrival of the Kindertransport in Britain – yesterday. In 1938 and 1939 thousands of mainly Jewish children were transported to the safety of foster families in Britain, arriving via ports such as Harwich before moving
- [From kindergarten to Kindertransport - Christiane Amanpour](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/from-kindergarten-to-kindertransport-christiane-amanpour/) - Monday is world Kindertransport Day: the 75th anniversary of one of the great humanitarian missions of modern times. Imagine a world where 10,000 children were rescued from the holocaust by the kindness of strangers.
- [Anniversary party for Kindertransport law](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/anniversary-party-for-kindertransport-law/) - Marking the 75th anniversary of the Parliamentary debate that led to their rescue, the event began with a ceremony to rededicate the commemorative plaque unveiled in 1999 in gratitude for Parliament’s decision in November 1938 to start up the Kindertransport. Paying tribute to the Kinder, Speaker John Bercow also noted the huge strides made in
- [Survivors recall fleeing Nazis in Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/survivors-recall-fleeing-nazis-in-kindertransport/) - LONDON -- The operation was called Kindertransport - Children's Transport - and it was a passage from hell to freedom. Kristallnacht had just rocked Nazi Germany. The pogroms killed dozens of Jews, burned hundreds of synagogues and imprisoned tens of thousands in concentration camps. Many historians see them as the start of Hitler's Final Solution.
- [World Kindertransport Day: Surivivors Recall Children's Flight From Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/world-kindertransport-day-surivivors-recall-childrens-flight-from-nazis/) - Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of kids arrived without their parents at the English port of Harwich, and took a train to London's Liverpool Street Station. Some 10,000 children, most but not all Jewish, would escape the Nazis in the months to come — until the outbreak of war in September 1939,
- [Survivor of holocaust dies, aged 81](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/survivor-of-holocaust-dies-aged-81/) - Leo Metzstein, was one of the last of 10,000 Jewish children to flee Germany under the Kindertransport scheme before the war broke out in 1939. Born in Berlin, he was the youngest of five Metzstein children to escape the country in August 1939, with his sister Jenny. He lived in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. He was
- [Riviera Beach Prep Students Commemorate 75th Anniversary of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/riviera-beach-prep-students-commemorate-75th-anniversary-of-kindertransport/) - The purpose of Student Awareness Day on the Kindertransport was to honor survivors, their parents and the people who saved the lives of 10,000 children. “Our students understood that the Holocaust should be viewed in various perspectives and the Kindertransport is one of them,” Riviera Beach Prep Teacher Toshimi Abe-Janiga. “They made a personal connection
- [Kindertransport: Burbank residents recall the rescue of Jewish children](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/kindertransport-burbank-residents-recall-the-rescue-of-jewish-children/) - A video interview is online with Kindertransportee Susanne Weiss Goldsmith and KT2 David Meyerhof. The City of Burbank, CA proclaims December 2, 2013, World Kindertransport Day.
- [KINDERTRANSPORT Opens Burning Coal's Second Stage 2013-14 Season Tonight](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/kindertransport-opens-burning-coals-second-stage-2013-14-season-tonight/) - Between 1938 and the outbreak of World War II, thousands of Jewish children living in Germany were sent to Great Britain on the Kindertransport. This move saved them from the concentration camps their parents would soon face. Diane Samuels' play offers deep insight into themes of abandonment, identity, survivors' guilt, and the effects of a
- [Survivors to mark 75th anniversary of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/survivors-to-mark-75th-anniversary-of-kindertransport/) - On the evening of Dec. 2, a group of elderly men and women, some with their children and grandchildren, will gather at a Burbank mall to mark the 75th anniversary of a heartbreaking, yet uplifting, episode of the Nazi era, known as the Kindertransport (in English, Children’s Transport). The event, part of the Temple Beth
- [75 years since the Night of Broken Glass](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/75-years-since-the-night-of-broken-glass/) - “I walked by our synagogue. Hordes of people were standing in front of it and throwing stones through the beautiful stained-glass windows. They had gone into the synagogue, ransacked it and threw the Torah scrolls into the streets,” Neumann recalled. As soon as she arrived at school, her teacher said, “Something horrible happened last night.
- [Kindertransport play coming to UK train station](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/kindertransport-play-coming-to-uk-train-station/) - 75 years ago, train stations across Britain filled with child refugees arriving from Nazi-occupied Europe, at the start of what became known as the Kindertransport. Now, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the rescue mission, which saved more than 9,500 children, a theatre company is touring station platforms across the UK, with a production portraying
- [Kindertransport: Real stories inspires stage version](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/kindertransport-real-stories-inspires-stage-version/) - During World War II thousands of children, most of whom were Jewish, had to leave their parents and travel to the UK to escape persecution. Survivors - like Ursula Rosenfield - were kept safe by the kindertransport mission. Now railway stations across Britain will be the setting for a theatre production telling their story. Executive
- [Documentary on Leonore Goldschmidt and her Goldschmidt Schule airs on tv](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/documentary-on-leonore-goldschmidt-and-her-goldschmidt-schule-airs-on-tv/) - GERMANY: 'Goldschmidts Kinder - Überleben in Hitlers Schatten' - November 4th, 2013 at 23:30 on ARD Television, Germany. - November 5th, 2013 at 03:25 on ARD Television. - November 7th, 2013 at 20:15 on tagesschau24. USA: "The Teacher who Defied Hitler' - November 16th, 2013 at 08:00pm (ET/PT) on Smithsonian Channel. - November 16th, 2013
- [Sex, Jews, and the undeniable resurgence of Dr. Ruth](https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/sex-jews-and-the-undeniable-resurgence-of-dr-ruth/) - The 85-year-old former Kindertransport child and Haganah sniper is still talking sex in the media and making waves. By Debra Nussbaum Cohen In the Haaretz newspaper (you must register and sign in to read the full article)
- [Hamden Hall lecture series](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/hamden-hall-lecture-series/) - Hamden Hall Country Day School’s community lecture series features a documentary that tells the inspirational story of the Czech Kindertransport that rescued 669 children in the early days of Nazi occupation. Nicky’s Family will screen in Hamden Hall’s Taylor Performing Arts Center Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m. Following the screening, Mr. Ivan Backer will discuss
- [A truly contented man](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/a-truly-contented-man/) - One of the youngest children on the Kindertransport, Paul Alexander leads a successful life; his only regret is that he never hit a six in cricket. Perhaps the true heroes in Paul Alexander’s extraordinary story are his parents who, in 1939, sent their 16-month-old only child on a Kindertransport from their Leipzig home to safe
- [Kindertransport on German television](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/kindertransport-on-german-television/) - Short video broadcast on ZDF featuring Kind Bernd Koschland and rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton.
- [World ignores Gypsy plight, says refugee from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2013/10/world-ignores-gypsy-plight-says-refugee-from-nazis/) - A refugee from Nazi Germany has published a book for children to counter prejudice against Gypsies. Ruth Barnett, who came here on a Kindertransport from Berlin at the age of 4 in 1939, draws parallels between the Jewish and Gypsy experience. “I have been going into schools for Holocaust education to tell my Kindertransport story
- [A Princely Reception For Former Refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2013/07/a-princely-reception-for-former-refugees/) - On the 75th anniversary, the Prince of Wales hosted a reception in honor of a few hundred aging Kindertransport participants.The prince spent two hours at the event, which was sponsored by the Association of Jewish Refugees. Prince Charles “was charming. He seems interested in everybody, and I was very impressed,” Joe Garten of Roslyn, L.I.,
- [Kindertransport Film Elides Hero's Role](https://kindertransport.org/2013/07/kindertransport-film-elides-heros-role/) - Nicholas Winton is someone whose life is a worthy subject. He was an English Holocaust rescuer who was the primary moving force behind the Kindertransport program that rescued Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. Unfortunately, each of Minac’s three films on Winton is preachy, bathetic and clumsily manipulative. Nicky's Family, the latest film is certainly
- [Kim Masters on the New Movie Detailing Her Mother's Escape From the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2013/07/kim-masters-on-the-new-movie-detailing-her-mothers-escape-from-the-nazis/) - Nicky's Family, out July 19, shows how the "British Schindler" saved hundreds of children from Hitler's forces, including Masters' own mom. My grandmother's name was Sidonia, and she lived with my grandfather Salamon in the remote mountain village of Trstena, then part of Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). They had three little girls, among them my mother,
- [Swansea Kindertransport girl gets royal invite](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/swansea-kindertransport-girl-gets-royal-invite/) - MEMORIES of fleeing pre-war Nazi Germany have come flooding back to a Gower pensioner following a royal invitation to visit London. Ellen Davis arrived in Swansea in 1939 as one of 10,000 Jewish children sent abroad to escape Nazi atrocities. The rest of her family, including her brother and sisters, were sent to a concentration
- [Kindertransport: 'To my dying day, I will be grateful to this country'](https://kindertransport.org/2013/05/kindertransport-to-my-dying-day-i-will-be-grateful-to-this-country/) - The candles were lit for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah as 10-year-old Ruth Heber and her seven-year-old brother Harry left their family’s rented rooms in Vienna for the last time, almost 75 years ago. “Our father blessed us and we went to the station,” she remembers. “It was in the evening so the public would
- [When We Did Not Do Enough](https://kindertransport.org/2013/06/when-we-did-not-do-enough/) - One of the most interesting things about the coverage of Margaret Thatcher's death was the revelation that her father, Alderman Roberts of Grantham, took in a Jewish refugee girl and gave her a new life. The story was similar to that of the Attenboroughs - the parents of Richard and David - who provided a
- [Inge O. Langham, 1925-2013](https://kindertransport.org/2013/04/inge-o-langham-1925-2013/) - Inge (Blank) Langham died in Napa on March 30, 2013, surrounded by family. She was born in 1925 in Dortmund, Germany. After Kristallnacht, Inge arrived with her sister, Doris, in England via the Kindertransport in 1938. She survived the Blitz in England and arrived in the United States in 1940, where she completed her education.
- [A four-month mitzvah saving 50 children](https://kindertransport.org/2013/04/a-four-month-mitzvah-saving-50-children/) - When it comes to memories as an 8-year-old in 1938, Kurt Herman can recall: how his school friends in Vienna shunned him days after Hitler annexed Austria; how his father hid at the top of a closet when Nazis searched their apartment; and he and 49 other children were rescued in the largest single kindertransport
- [HBO Documentary '50 Children: The Rescue Mission Of Mr. And Mrs. Kraus'](https://kindertransport.org/2013/04/hbo-documentary-50-children-the-rescue-mission-of-mr-and-mrs-kraus/) - Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus lived a comfortable life in 1930s Philadelphia, where he made a good living as a lawyer, and she kept a stylish house. They were secular Jews who sent their children to a Quaker school, and unlikely candidates for the mission they assigned themselves. Gilbert revealed the plan to his wife as
- [Holocaust survivor shares story](https://kindertransport.org/2013/04/holocaust-survivor-shares-story/) - Lore Jacobs, whose 89th birthday is Wednesday, and her daughter Gale Halpern spoke to students Monday about Jacobs' own story. She was born in Frankfurt, like Anne Frank, and both girls grew up Jewish in mixed neighborhoods. Both were also victims of discrimination, but Jacobs was able to escape Germany through a program called the
- [Holocaust Memorial Day: Kindertransport remembered in music](https://kindertransport.org/2013/01/holocaust-memorial-day-kindertransport-remembered-in-music/) - Composer Carl Davis has written a piece of music to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and the journey made by Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe, known as Kindertransport. See video on the BBC website
- [Carl Davis: Composer's Kindertransport homage](https://kindertransport.org/2013/01/carl-davis-composers-kindertransport-homage/) - The heart breaking journey more than 10,000 Jewish children made to flee Nazi persecution might sound an unlikely subject for a children's choir. But that was the suggestion award-winning conductor and composer Carl Davis made when he was commissioned to write a choral piece for the Halle Orchestra's children's choir.
- [Yale’s pioneering archive of Shoah Testimonies](https://kindertransport.org/2013/02/yales-pioneering-archive-of-shoah-testimonies/) - Kind Geoffrey Hartman has written an article for Tablet. What the Dead Have To Say to Us Yale’s pioneering archive of Shoah testimonies reshaped the way tragedies are remembered. But are we listening? In the spring of 1979, Dori Laub, a Yale psychiatrist and child survivor of the Holocaust, and Laurel Vlock, a dynamic New
- [50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus](https://kindertransport.org/2013/03/50-children-the-rescue-mission-of-mr-and-mrs-kraus/) - HBO Documentary Tells Story of Kindertransport That Saved 50 Children Film Reveals Philadelphia Family's Role in Daring Rescue 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus,” will be aired April 8, 2013 at 9 p.m., on HBO.
- [The Last Train to Tomorrow](https://kindertransport.org/2012/12/the-last-train-to-tomorrow/) - Davis' composition, "The Last Train to Tomorrow," a piece for orchestra, children's choir and young actors, tells the story of Kindertransport children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The composition recently premiered in England, and if Boca Raton resident Brenda Wertheim has her way, South Floridians will also get a chance to hear it.
- [The Other Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2012/12/the-other-kindertransport/) - One hundred and fifty Czech teens, selected by the Jewish Agency’s Youth Aliyah and the Denmark branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, were taken, in October 1939, to Denmark, then scattered across the countryside in foster homes. One hundred and fifty Jewish teens were sent to work on farms; they were
- [Son shares father's Kindertransport documentary](https://kindertransport.org/2013/01/son-shares-fathers-kindertransport-documentary/) - More than 70 years ago, English stockbroker Nicholas Winton did something that would forever change the lives of 669 children. Recently the now 103-year-old Winton's life has been made into a documentary "Nicky's Family," which tells his story and those of the children of the Kindertransport through firsthand accounts and dramatic reenactment. To celebrate the
- [Behind Oxford Donation, a Personal Story](https://kindertransport.org/2012/07/behind-oxford-donation-a-personal-story/) - LONDON — “I wouldn’t be here today if not for the generosity of strangers,” said Michael Moritz, while announcing a major donation to Oxford University. In an interview afterward, Mr. Moritz said that his father, Alfred, had grown up in Munich, where his father was a judge who lost his post when the Nazis came
- [Honoring Great Britain for “The Kindertransport”](https://kindertransport.org/2012/07/honoring-great-britain-for-the-kindertransport/) - Queensborough’s Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives is hosting Kindertransport: a Unique Rescue Operation. It is an exhibit of photographs and first-hand accounts, vividly conveying the rescue mission. Running July 12 – September 30, the exhibit opened with a ceremony to recognize the humanitarian role played by Great Britain in the Kindertransport.
- [Palo Alto's bicycle pioneer Ellen Fletcher dies](https://kindertransport.org/2012/11/palo-altos-bicycle-pioneer-ellen-fletcher-dies/) - Ellen Fletcher, a former Palo Alto City Councilwoman who spearheaded the city's transformation into a nationally recognized bike-friendly community, died Wednesday, Nov. 7, after a battle with lung cancer, according to her friends and family. She was 83.
- ['Holocaust play was hard to watch - because I was there'](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/holocaust-play-was-hard-to-watch-because-i-was-there/) - THE whole Swansea audience found Kindertransport — a play about the Holocaust — emotional to watch, but no one more so than Ellen Davis — because she was actually there. Mrs Davis arrived in Swansea in 1939 as one of 10,000 Jewish children sent abroad to escape Nazi atrocities. The rest of her family, including
- [A sublime portrait of 'The Pianist' by Mona Golabek](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/a-sublime-portrait-of-the-pianist-by-mona-golabek/) - Mona Golabek’s one woman homage to her mother, Lisa Jura is a superlative show. Golabek, a world renowned concert pianist, gives us a dramatic and heart rending performance as both a pianist and as an actress. Hershey Felder adapted the play from the book by Golabek and Lee Cohen, The Children of Willesden Lane. “This
- [Inge Goldrein talks about her escape from Nazi Austria](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/inge-goldrein-talks-about-her-escape-from-nazi-austria/) - Aged only seven, as she was ushered from her classroom in Vienna, evidence of Kristallnacht was everywhere. “We were all herded out of the school when there was the smell of burning, taken to a hall and taken home the next morning,” she said. “I remember seeing some old women scrubbing the pavement with toothbrushes
- [Champaign, Illinois Resident Remembers the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/champaign-illinois-resident-remembers-the-kindertransport/) - From Illinois Public Media: Video testimony of Champaign resident, Heini Halberstam. Heini Halberstam was born in Czechoslovakia, and separated from his mother during the Nazi occupation. He believes she died in a labor camp. Halberstam said that changed his life forever. To listen to the full interview
- [Azrieli-Ryerson Pilot Project Presents a Rare Gift for Holocaust Remembranc](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/azrieli-ryerson-pilot-project-presents-a-rare-gift-for-holocaust-remembranc/) - t was more than 50 years after the Kindertransport that Margaret first heard the term for the movement that saved her mother. Today, she has an even better understanding of her mother’s past and an appreciation for her resiliency. “My mother said, ‘We always looked forward, never back, we needed to find hope for the
- [Music transcends darkest hours in ‘Willesden Lane’](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/music-transcends-darkest-hours-in-willesden-lane/) - Malka and Abraham Jura faced a Solomonic decision in late 1938, as the Nazis were tightening the vise on the Jews of Vienna. The couple hoped to send their three daughters to safety but were able to wrangle only one place on the Kindertransport ferrying a limited number of Jewish children to London. After much
- [Beverly Hills resident remembers her experience as a Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2012/04/beverly-hills-resident-remembers-her-experience-as-a-holocaust-survivor/) - There are many stories about good people and organizations risking their lives to help Jewish families survive the atrocities of Nazism. Here is one of those stories. In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, and the start of World War II, nearly 10,000 children were sent out of Nazi Germany, Austria,
- [SHU Receives Donation of Hartman Holocaust Book Collection](https://kindertransport.org/2012/01/shu-receives-donation-of-hartman-holocaust-book-collection/) - Sacred Heart University is the recipient of a collection of books on the holocaust from Dr. Geoffrey and Renée Hartman. The couple amassed a collection of scholarly works with their work on the Holocaust Survivors Film Project. Dr. Hartman was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929 and was placed on Kindertransport to England in 1939.
- [Four guests speak at Holocaust Memorial Day in Hendon](https://kindertransport.org/2012/01/four-guests-speak-at-holocaust-memorial-day-in-hendon/) - A KNIGHTED jewish refugee, a young Auschwitz visitor and a High Commissioner are among guest speakers at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day Service in Hendon this Sunday. The day's theme is Speak Up, Speak Out, admission is free and all members of the public are invited to attend.
- [How Kent saved Jewish lives in WWII](https://kindertransport.org/2012/01/how-kent-saved-jewish-lives-in-wwii/) - The forgotten story of how the people of Sandwich played a key role in saving thousands of men from certain death at the hands of the Nazis is to be featured in a BBC TV show on Monday evening Jan. 23. In recounting the stories of love and loss, the programme tracks down men and
- [BAYT rabbi’s mother tells tale of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2011/12/bayt-rabbis-mother-tells-tale-of-the-kindertransport/) - Frieda Korobkin can’t recall the last words her father spoke before she and her siblings boarded the Kindertransport but she does remember the Nazis attacking him on the way. Her father was Rabbi Nissan Stolzberg and Nazi soldiers had cut off his beard in front of his 4 young children as he walked them to
- [At Chanukah, Czech Jews marvel at blessings of Havel’s revolution](https://kindertransport.org/2011/12/at-chanukah-czech-jews-marvel-at-blessings-of-havels-revolution/) - PRAGUE (JTA) – On the first night of Chanukah, I stood in the splendid reception hall of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Prague as the ambassador lit the first candle in a gilded menorah. ...Havel had been extremely important. Not just with his condemnation of anti-Semitism, but with the active role he played in addressing
- [WG Sebald: ten years on](https://kindertransport.org/2011/12/wg-sebald-ten-years-on/) - On Wednesday evening Thomas Marks saw Andrew Motion, AS Byatt and Ian Bostridge celebrate WG Sebald, the great German author of Vertigo and Austerlitz, who died in a car crash a decade ago.
- [Inspiring headteacher to Miliband brothers and Sienna Miller has died](https://kindertransport.org/2012/01/inspiring-headteacher-to-miliband-brothers-and-sienna-miller-has-died/) - Few lives so encapsulated the mammoth historical and political changes during 20th Century Europe as that of Claire Rauter, who has died aged 87. As a child she fled Nazi persecution, in her adolescence she swapped ideas with Londons intelligentsia, and in adulthood she made it her life's work to bring Steiner's humanistic educational approach
- [Kristallnacht commemoration features author Vera Fast](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/kristallnacht-commemoration-features-author-vera-fast/) - Winnipeg – A community-wide Kristallnacht commemoration was held, with a nearly full house turnout last Wednesday. On this same date, in 1938, mobs took to the streets in Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland, attacking Jews in the street, their homes, workplaces and synagogues. Vera Fast, local author and noted historian, recently published Children’s Exodus – A
- [Exhibit sheds light on saving kids from Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/exhibit-sheds-light-on-saving-kids-from-nazis/) - “Nicky’s Family,” a documentary film making its debut next month at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, opens with two girls peeping through a porthole of a ship leaving eastern Europe, bound for England. The documentary will be shown Dec. 4 as part of the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Center’s
- [Robert E. Conot dies at 82; journalist wrote study of the Watts Riots](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/robert-e-conot-dies-at-82-journalist-wrote-study-of-the-watts-riots/) - Injustice was a theme in Conot's early life that he rarely spoke about but which he repeatedly visited in his books, his daughter said. A native of Austria, he was a child of the Kindertransport. In 1938, when he was 9, he climbed aboard a train — and never saw his parents again. His father,
- [Kindertransport memorial unveiled](https://kindertransport.org/2011/12/kindertransport-memorial-unveiled/) - On Wednesday in Hoek van Holland, in sight of the gangway where over 70 years ago they embarked for England and freedom, gathered tens of Kinder from all over the world. They had come for the unveiling of a statue in commemoration of the Kindertransport. The bronze figures of children with their backpacks and cases
- [How a Holocaust Survivor Escaped Into Comics](https://kindertransport.org/2011/12/how-a-holocaust-survivor-escaped-into-comics/) - Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer This is quite a remarkable little book, by quite an artist-writer duo, on quite a subject. The daughter of a Yiddish journalist and one of the founders of Underground Comix in the late 1960s, Trina Robbins was also a central figure in women’s comics
- [Faces That Still Haunt](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/faces-that-still-haunt/) - My mother went into action and managed to get us older kids on the last Kindertransport to France. I was only six. My older siblings knew what was happening, but my mother was afraid I would cry, and said we were going on vacation... I was excited to get on a train, and I said
- [Percy Jackson’s Grammar School did their bit in dark war days](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/percy-jacksons-grammar-school-did-their-bit-in-dark-war-days/) - A Jewish boy, Siegfried Franz Spira arrived via the Kindertransport arrangement and spent a year at Percy Jackson’s Grammar School. He then went on with his father to join his mother in the States where he was to become well-known as Fred Spira with his successful photographic business ‘Spiratone’.
- [Macaulay House College: Jewish school in Cuckfield](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/macaulay-house-college-jewish-school-in-cuckfield/) - Perhaps its legacy is best remembered in the words of one of the Kindertransport children writing from America in 1998: ”My stay at Macaulay House College was a crucial part of my life. It gave me temporary security, a classic English education and a sense of stability and order. The English people treated me with
- [The Story of Kind Hans Reiss](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/the-story-of-kind-hans-reiss/) - November 9th is an important date in German history. It marks the day that the Berlin Wall fell, 20 years ago this month. The reason it's not a national holiday in Germany, is that the night of November 9th also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass." Hans Riess, an
- [Local Archive Inks Deal with Yad Vashem](https://kindertransport.org/2011/11/local-archive-inks-deal-with-yad-vashem/) - Gratz College's 32-year-old Holocaust Oral History Archive contains interviews with more than 900 survivors of the Shoah, amounting to thousands of hours of testimony. The Melrose Park academic institution has entered into an agreement with Yad Vashem -- Israel's official national Holocaust memorial and one of the world's leading research institutions on the Shoah --
- [How the Girl Guides Helped Beat Hitler](https://kindertransport.org/2011/07/how-the-girl-guides-helped-beat-hitler/) - The 1st Cockley Cley Guide Company in Norfolk was made up of Jewish refugee girls who arrived from Germany and Austria on the Kindertransport trains. Through Guiding they found friendship in a country where they knew nobody, could not speak the language and were considered ‘enemy aliens’.
- [Memories Of Home, In 3D](https://kindertransport.org/2011/07/memories-of-home-in-3d/) - Maya Zack recreates a 1930s Berlin living room, complete with portents of doom. Zack is interested in the fallibility of memory: of how even the most vivid images we have in our heads are distorted, misremembered and rendered nearly impossible to replicate. “Maya Zack: Living Room” opens at The Jewish Museum on July 31, 2011.
- [Personal Holocaust story on Man Booker longlist](https://kindertransport.org/2011/07/personal-holocaust-story-on-man-booker-longlist/) - A novel about a Jewish family during the Holocaust by an author who only recently discovered her Jewish heritage could take home this year's Man Booker prize. The book follows the antisemitism of the time and the family's personal struggles, as well as the experience of a child's escape to England on the Kindertransport.
- [Apple pie is a Good Fast Breaker](https://kindertransport.org/2011/10/apple-pie-is-a-good-fast-breaker/) - It is our traditional High Holiday dessert, Lewin told me. "We make two, one to serve for dinner before services on the evening of Rosh Hashanah and another to break the fast for Yom Kippur." Naomi Lewin's mother, Elsbeth, born in Mainz, was 15 in 1939 when the family saw the proverbial handwriting on the
- [Dislocation, Memory, and Childhood Explored at Cotsen Library Conference](https://kindertransport.org/2011/10/dislocation-memory-and-childhood-explored-at-cotsen-library-conference/) - The focus was on how World War II events dramatically altered the lives of a generation of children. Five panelists described the profound effects of dislocation on European children who participated in Kindertransport and other evacuation plans. As a result of being separated from their homes, and, sometimes, their families, thousands of young Austrian, British,
- [Tracing Holland’s Forgotten Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2011/06/tracing-hollands-forgotten-kindertransport/) - The transportation of about 10,000 Jewish children to England aboard the Kindertransport is a well-known, if tragically short, episode in the years preceding the Holocaust. But what Miriam Keesing has discovered after three years of dogged research at The Hague is a story much less known — that of Holland’s brief role as a haven
- [Ruth Stander, National Library of Medicine employee](https://kindertransport.org/2011/06/ruth-stander-national-library-of-medicine-employee/) - Ruth Stander, 87, who translated scientific articles in Russian and German into English and then summarized them for a National Library of Medicine publication, died June 6 at her home in Boynton Beach, Fla. She had pneumonia. Ruth Schlessinger was born near Stuttgart, Germany, to a Jewish family. In the late 1930s, she and two
- [Truth, Tears and Tolerance: Illinois Holocaust Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2011/06/truth-tears-and-tolerance-illinois-holocaust-museum/) - We are indeed committed, explains Fritzie Fritzshall, Holocaust survivor and president of the museum. "We are committed to educating the future generation. They must know about the Holocaust, as well as the recent atrocities in Darfur, Rwanda and Bosnia." And the mission of the museum is succeeding. Since the opening of the museum, over 100,000
- [The buttons showing love](https://kindertransport.org/2011/07/the-buttons-showing-love/) - At the Imperial War Museum I came across examples of Kindertransport clothing. From October 1938 until August 1939, the British government accepted almost 10,000 unaccompanied refugee Jewish children, escaping Nazi persecution. What the children wore became for many the only tangible evidence of their past life.
- ['Mummy, what was the Holocaust?'](https://kindertransport.org/2011/07/mummy-what-was-the-holocaust/) - Dealing with a child's questions about the Shoah demands sensitivity and patience. Judith Vandervelde, an educator at London's Jewish Museum, runs a seminar entitled, "How do we talk to our children about the Holocaust?" The museum runs workshops for schoolchildren in year six - both Jewish and non-Jewish. The focus is on stories of bravery
- ['English Schindler' Sir Nicholas Winton turns 102](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/english-schindler-sir-nicholas-winton-turns-102/) - Aged only 28, Sir Nicholas Winton helped save nearly 700 Jewish children from Nazi death camps, earning him the nickname the "English Schindler". Thursday is his 102nd birthday, which he will be celebrating with family and friends in Maidenhead, Berkshire. One of the children he saved, 82-year-old Vera Gissing, said of his age: "It's absolutely
- [Taking a Stand: A Reflection on Elie Wiesel and Hedy Epstein](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/taking-a-stand-a-reflection-on-elie-wiesel-and-hedy-epstein/) - These days I am thinking of two Holocaust survivors. I had met with one today: 86 year-old Hedy Epstein and I had lunch at a St. Louis café. The other is receiving an honorary doctorate tomorrow at Washington University: 82 year-old Elie Wiesel, who will give the commencement address. They have in common the central
- [Jewish nurse and African basketball star's bond of courage](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/jewish-nurse-and-african-basketball-stars-bond-of-courage/) - One is an 86-year-old Jewish woman who escaped the Holocaust, the other a 22-year-old African. But their shared ordeal in fleeing terror and finding a safe haven in Scotland means there is a bond between Rosa Sacharin and Christian Kasubandi. They met for a new film - Courage:60 Years of the UN Refugee Convention -made
- [Gustav Metzger’s Long Journey From the Kindertransport to the New Museum](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/gustav-metzgers-long-journey-from-the-kindertransport-to-the-new-museum/) - Born in 1926, Gustav Metzger has his first solo American exhibit, “Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs,” at New York City’s New Museum, where his powerfully gritty assemblages can be seen until July 3. “Gustav Metzger: Decades 1959–2009,” a 2010 publication from Koenig Books, explains how Metzger was born in Nuremberg in 1926 to Polish-Jewish parents. In
- [The Lion of Hull is ?nally honoured](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/the-lion-of-hull-is-nally-honoured/) - The work of a politician whose efforts saved thousands of lives during the war has been recognised in the city where he was a leading figure for more than half a century. A 10ft-high statue of Sir Leo Schultz was unveiled outside Hull's Guildhall on Monday. Sir Leo and his wife Kitty adopted Bob Rosner
- [Holocaust Survivor Speaks With Students](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/holocaust-survivor-speaks-with-students/) - WWII refugee tells his story for Holocaust Rembrance Month Kindertransport saved his life, but never saw his parents again. "After [my brother and I] left, [my parents] eventually were relocated to a Jewish ghetto in Slovakia where they stayed ‘til the early 1940s and … that's when they were put on a train to Auschwitz
- [Author Lore Segal Is Still in Love With the World](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/author-lore-segal-is-still-in-love-with-the-world/) - She is a most youthful 83, with starry blue eyes, a carefree nest of white hair and a light and musical Viennese accent. And she is still writing. Three years after "Shakespeare's Kitchen" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, she is in the final revisions of a new novel, "And If They Have Not
- [Review: The English German Girl](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/review-the-english-german-girl/) - Jake Wallis Simons's 2005 first novel The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew was well received. His new one, chronicling Rosa Klein's Berlin childhood in Nazi Germany and her escape to England on a Kindertransport, is an ambitious, courageous book. Ambitious in the way Simons's subject matter has a touch of the surreal. Rosa riding
- [Bill Graham’s American dream: story of Holocaust refugee](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/bill-grahams-american-dream-story-of-holocaust-refugee/) - As a Jewish child in Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Grajonza saw his family torn apart by the Holocaust. His mother was taken to Auschwitz and gassed, his siblings were split — some were sent to an orphanage for safety, while others stayed behind and ended up in the camps. The young boy went to a series
- [Orphaned by the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/orphaned-by-the-holocaust/) - Hal Myers was five in 1935 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws that stripped Jews of their rights. Myers' father, a salesman and World War I veteran, lost his job in Adolf Hitler's first step in clearing Germany of all Jews, Myers said. He grew up in Karlsruhe, the capital of Baden, and
- [Hicksville woman recalls escaping Nazi Germany by 'kindertransport'](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/hicksville-woman-recalls-escaping-nazi-germany-by-kindertransport/) - Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day but it is also a special day for a Hicksville woman who escaped Nazi Germany. Margarete Goldberger was aboard a mass humanitarian operation called Kindertransport, and her memories of fleeing the Nazis were captured on faded family photographs. Goldberger recalls that 23 of her close relatives were killed in the
- [Illinois honors Holocaust victims at Old State Capitol](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/illinois-honors-holocaust-victims-at-old-state-capitol/) - Even 72 years later, Heini Halberstam vividly remembers his escape to Great Britain from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia as a child in an operation known as the Kindertransport. Halberstam, speaking to the 30th annual Illinois Holocaust Observance at the Old State Capitol on Wendesday, said he and his mother left their home for Prague around
- [Call for snapshots of migration](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/call-for-snapshots-of-migration/) - Czech-born Labour peer Lord [Alfred] Dubs, suggests his contribution would be a photograph of the Children of the Kindertransport memorial outside London's Liverpool Street station. "It still brings memories of my own journey and arrival in the summer of 1939. A knapsack of uneaten food that my mother had packed for the journey, the midnight
- [Yom HaShoah and Holocaust Remembrance Week commemorations](https://kindertransport.org/2011/05/yom-hashoah-and-holocaust-remembrance-week-commemorations/) - Yom HaShoah and Holocaust Remembrance Week commemorations held in Chicago and Springfield Dr. Heini Halberstam (Champaign-Urbana) brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience when he talked about saying goodbye to his mother for the last time, though he didn’t know it was his last goodbye, as he joined a Kindertransport in Prague.
- [Dan Bern: A Dylanesque singer in the Holocaust’s shadow](https://kindertransport.org/2011/02/dan-bern-a-dylanesque-singer-in-the-holocausts-shadow/) - Bern, who lives in Los Angeles, is a Jew from Iowa, where he and his sister were the only Jewish kids in their school. His parents were Jews from Europe. His mother left Germany on the kindertransport; his father fled Lithuania in 1939, one of two survivors of his family; the rest were massacred with
- [Harwich: Memorial for Kindertransport children](https://kindertransport.org/2011/03/harwich-memorial-for-kindertransport-children/) - A MEMORIAL to commemorate Harwich’s role in the Kindertransport will be unveiled next week. The bench and information plaque, located on Harbour Crescent, will remember the 10,000 Jewish children who passed through the seaside town in 1938 escaping persecution from Nazi Germany.
- [How fleeing the Nazis opened a door to Alf’s lifetime in politics](https://kindertransport.org/2011/04/how-fleeing-the-nazis-opened-a-door-to-alfs-lifetime-in-politics/) - The flash of a swastika on the arm of a German soldier. His mother’s anxious face peering back at him from the platform. Prague at night through the train window. These are the memories of Lord Alfred Dubs, 78, the life peer and former MP for Battersea now living in the village of High Lorton
- [Germans Setting Shoah Memories in Stone](https://kindertransport.org/2011/04/germans-setting-shoah-memories-in-stone/) - Last month, in Berlin, some 40 people gathered outside a block of flats on Gieselerstrasse 12. They came to commemorate seven Jews who were rounded up by the Nazis and sent to their deaths in Auschwitz. Among the guests was 87-year old Ilse Newton of Golders Green. The last time she had set foot on
- [A Holocaust kid shares story of escape with students](https://kindertransport.org/2011/01/a-holocaust-kid-shares-story-of-escape-with-students/) - It's not every day a Holocaust victim comes and speaks to us, said Rabbi Noam Silverman, head of Jewish studies at the Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, as he introduced 82-year-old Ellen Fletcher. "And it's not every day a Holocaust victim comes to us on a bike, especially in the rain." With that, more than
- [Saved by a beacon of kindness](https://kindertransport.org/2011/01/saved-by-a-beacon-of-kindness/) - CARLA KING reviews Children’s Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport By Vera K Fast IN THE GRIM years before the second World War one beacon of courage and kindness was the Kindertransport , a voluntary effort that saw the movement of more than 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to the relative safety
- [Biography of Gerard Gould: Making An Entrance by Margaret Martin](https://kindertransport.org/2011/02/biography-of-gerard-gould-making-an-entrance-by-margaret-martin/) - This is a remarkable book about a most remarkable man. Gerard Gould is a teacher and director of amateur drama with a uniquely charismatic personality, and those gifts are rare enough to merit attention; but the life of the man behind the work is truly fascinating. He was born Günter Goldstein in Germany in 1922,
- [Care for Holocaust survivors doubled](https://kindertransport.org/2010/12/care-for-holocaust-survivors-doubled/) - Marion Marston, 85, of Stanmore, lost 22 members of her family in the Holocaust. She came to Britain on the Kindertransport. She struggles to afford any luxuries. "I have four hours' paid homecare a week from the AJR, and the Holocaust Survivors' Centre in Hendon is a lifeline for me. But I would be very
- [Far to Go: Novelist Alison Pick shines](https://kindertransport.org/2010/12/far-to-go-novelist-alison-pick-shines/) - The year is 1938. Betrayed at Munich by European countries desperate to appease Hitler — “Peace in our time,” infamously crowed Neville Chamberlain — Czechoslovakia is about to be invaded by Germany. Toronto poet and novelist Alison Pick dissects this national tragedy in a multilayered narrative, a tale of betrayals large and small, that focuses
- [Return to ground zero: Hedy Epstein at Nuremberg](https://kindertransport.org/2010/12/return-to-ground-zero-hedy-epstein-at-nuremberg/) - Here The Horror was nurtured and exalted -- at monster rallies between 1923-1939, where hundreds of thousands of Germans massed every summer to pledge fanatic fealty to “der Führer”... And here, in Courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice, beginning in 1945, the perpetrators of The Horror were brought to account for their deeds by
- [Little Warsaw Of Kathiawar](https://kindertransport.org/2010/12/little-warsaw-of-kathiawar/) - The celebrated ‘Kindertransport’ project finds an echo in the noble decision by Digvijaysinhji, the maharaja of Nawanagar to take in Polish children from war-torn, occupied Poland and Soviet prison camps. He took personal risks to make the arrangements at a time when the world was at war, and when the exhausted refugees were denied entry
- [Year 1 Bring the Mitzvah Marathon to the Finish Line in Style](https://kindertransport.org/2010/11/year-1-bring-the-mitzvah-marathon-to-the-finish-line-in-style/) - Mr Hirschberger, a refugee from Nazi Germany who came to the UK in 1939 on the Kindertransport, reminded us that we must not discriminate against anybody on the grounds of race or colour or religion. That is such an important lesson that we can take forward from this Mitzvah Marathon.
- [Faiths come together over a turban-tying demonstration](https://kindertransport.org/2010/12/faiths-come-together-over-a-turban-tying-demonstration/) - Kingston celebrated interfaith week with a Faith Fest allowing different groups to share their food and artefacts. The week ran until Sunday, November 28, and included a talk by a survivor of the kinder transport from Nazi Germany at Kingston Liberal Synagogue.
- [Survivor's tales of horrors from the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2010/10/survivors-tales-of-horrors-from-the-holocaust/) - 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
- [Novel, "Far To Go" reviewed](https://kindertransport.org/2010/10/novel-far-to-go-reviewed/) - 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
- [KT2 Melissa Hacker begins new film](https://kindertransport.org/2010/11/kt2-melissa-hacker-begins-new-film/) - 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
- [Autumn selection of poetry by Jewish writers](https://kindertransport.org/2010/11/autumn-selection-of-poetry-by-jewish-writers/) - Lotte Kramer came to England in 1939 with the Kindertransport. Her 13th volume, Turning the Key (Rockingham Press, £7.99) is made up of a compelling quantity of toughly pared-down lyrics. One instantly sees why she cherishes an unassumingly grey-toned necklace though . . . not prone to ornaments./It was the simple beauty of design/That spoke
- [It’s now or never](https://kindertransport.org/2010/10/its-now-or-never/) - 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
- [The Life and Times of Wolf Homburger](https://kindertransport.org/2010/10/the-life-and-times-of-wolf-homburger/) - 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
- [Gretel Beer, Kind and author of Classic Austrian Cooking](https://kindertransport.org/2010/09/gretel-beer-kind-and-author-of-classic-austrian-cooking/) - 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
- ['Austria Will Never Forget What Happened To The Jews'](https://kindertransport.org/2010/09/austria-will-never-forget-what-happened-to-the-jews/) - 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.
- ['British Schindler' Holocaust hero honoured](https://kindertransport.org/2010/09/british-schindler-holocaust-hero-honoured/) - 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
- [Lily Renée Phillips — a Comic Books Icon — She Inked Her Way to the Top](https://kindertransport.org/2010/09/lily-renee-phillips-a-comic-books-icon-she-inked-her-way-to-the-top/) - 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
- [In My Own Write: Yekke par excellence](https://kindertransport.org/2010/08/in-my-own-write-yekke-par-excellence/) - 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
- [Holocaust Centre family receive rare triple honour](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/holocaust-centre-family-receive-rare-triple-honour/) - 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
- [Old boys remember Leeds school](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/old-boys-remember-leeds-school/) - 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
- [Brodetsky gives its pupils a taste of the great outdoors](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/brodetsky-gives-its-pupils-a-taste-of-the-great-outdoors/) - 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,
- [The Holocaust and England](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/the-holocaust-and-england/) - 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
- [Holocaust revisited](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/holocaust-revisited/) - 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
- [Holocaust Memorial Walk Remembers Child Victims](https://kindertransport.org/2010/05/holocaust-memorial-walk-remembers-child-victims/) - Despite the rain outside, the crowd inside the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s new museum walked and learned as they toured the galleries and learned from the Center’s docents about the experiences of children during the Holocaust. On this special day, the Center held its annual Memorial Walk to remember the children
- [The Kindertransport Association Conference](https://kindertransport.org/2010/05/the-kindertransport-association-conference/) - The Kindertransport Association has announced that it will host its Biennial Conference in Arlington, Virginia October 15-17, 2010. The event is expected to draw hundreds of members from throughout the United States. “We are very excited to be convening again this year.” said Kurt Goldberger, President of the KTA. “First, second and third generation KTA
- [While pitying Gaza, we can't forget our debt to the Jews](https://kindertransport.org/2010/06/while-pitying-gaza-we-cant-forget-our-debt-to-the-jews/) - When the Jewish people were in peril of being totally extinguished, Ireland -- or 'Eire', as the 26 counties were then called -- did not lift a finger to help out. The Irish National Archives have overflowing files of letters to the Irish authorities from European Jews in the period 1938-1940, begging for help from
- [Wolf Homburger dies at 83](https://kindertransport.org/2010/06/wolf-homburger-dies-at-83/) - 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
- [The Andorra Star](https://kindertransport.org/2010/07/the-andorra-star/) - 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.
- [Living history: Holocaust survivor feels obliged to tell her story](https://kindertransport.org/2010/04/living-history-holocaust-survivor-feels-obliged-to-tell-her-story/) - I feel very privileged to be here, said Hildegard "Hilde" Gernsheimer, Wyomissing, recently addressing about 150 students studying the Holocaust in elective courses taught by Jennifer Goss at Fleetwood High School. Goss, who was on a December 1, 1938 Kindertransport, was named one of Pennsylvania's Best Practices in Holocaust Education teachers in 2008.
- [The Germans who took up arms against Hitler](https://kindertransport.org/2010/04/the-germans-who-took-up-arms-against-hitler/) - It's 65 years since Hitler drafted his will before committing suicide. The men who translated it were Germans who fled to Britain to take up arms against their own country. Two new memoirs shed light on this little-known group. Among them was Herman Rothman, a Jew born in Berlin. He came to England aged 14
- [St. Charles (Ohio)  welcomes special classroom guests](https://kindertransport.org/2010/05/st-charles-ohio-welcomes-special-classroom-guests/) - Felix Weil, 82, shared his first-hand experience of traveling on the first Kindertransport that departed Germany for England in 1938. He related a tale of being chosen from a lottery, leaving his sobbing parents at the station (never to see them again),and finding three sizes of pants - from child, adolescent, and adult - in
- [National History Day projects moving on to national event](https://kindertransport.org/2010/05/national-history-day-projects-moving-on-to-national-event/) - Four Onalaska eighth-graders began working on this year’s National History Day projects before the school year even began. Sam Chilsen, Ben Reimler, Mary Diermeier and Tori Charnetzki spent last summer investigating topics and looking at the competition’s guidelines. Their final projects,including “Kindertransport: Journey to Safety,” a documentary by Chilsen and Reimler, qualified May 1 for
- [Understanding Social Space May Help Us Fight Genocide](https://kindertransport.org/2010/05/understanding-social-space-may-help-us-fight-genocide/) - Physicists study physical space. Geneticists study biological space. In Our Quest for Effective Living, author Fred Emil Katz studies social space. This isn't the kind of social space we access through Facebook or an Internet chat room, but the interchanges between creatures and their surroundings. Katz, a sociologist and a Kindertransport survivor of the Holocaust,
- [Jewish Museum in Camden, London opens](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/jewish-museum-in-camden-london-opens/) - The main gallery charts the history of the Jewish community in Britain from 1066, most effectively the 19th and 20th centuries. Individual exhibits include a tiny doll brought over by a child refugee on the Kindertransport and a bible which was the only object an anti-apartheid activist was allowed to take with him into solitary
- [David Zeehandelaar, respected attorney](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/david-zeehandelaar-respected-attorney/) - David Zeehandelaar packed a lot of accomplishment in his short life. He was a partner in the law firm of Blank Rome LLP, served on the executive committee of the Mayor's Airport Advisory Board, was a judge pro tempore in the Court of Common Pleas and was a strong supporter of Israel and Jewish causes.
- [Lola Hahn-Warburg: My successful guardian angel](https://kindertransport.org/2010/04/lola-hahn-warburg-my-successful-guardian-angel/) - Gerard Friedenfeld writes of his experiences as a Kind in England and with Lola Hahn-Warburg: I arrived at London’s Liverpool Street station from Prague in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on June 2, 1939 at age 14. I and 135 other Jewish children had left our parents in Prague two days earlier, becoming instant orphans and heading into
- [As years go by, Georgia Holocaust survivors more vocal about war stories](https://kindertransport.org/2010/04/as-years-go-by-georgia-holocaust-survivors-more-vocal-about-war-stories/) - Atlanta architect and author of two memoirs Benjamin Hirsch’s mother secured passage on a Kindertransport to Paris for five of her children, including 6-year-old Ben. The train left Frankfurt on Dec. 5, 1938, less than a month after Kristallnacht when Hirsch watched his family’s Freidberger Anlage Synagogue torched and ransacked. That was the last time
- [The remarkable stories of Britain's Heroes of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/the-remarkable-stories-of-britains-heroes-of-the-holocaust/) - The Prime Minister has recognised 27 British men and women as "Heroes of the Holocaust". Here are their stories of extraordinary bravery in the face of Nazi persecution. Sir Nicholas Winton and Bertha Bracey are among those recognized.
- [Medal for anti-Nazi Quaker](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/medal-for-anti-nazi-quaker/) - A British Quaker who worked against Nazism in the 1930s has been honoured by the UK government. Bertha Bracey has now been posthumously awarded a medal, inscribed “In the Service of Humanity”. After the Nazis came to power in Germany, she campaigned for a relaxation of immigration controls for the sake of Jews and other
- [The History of the Jewish Star in the Realm of the Union Jack](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/the-history-of-the-jewish-star-in-the-realm-of-the-union-jack/) - One of the first objects you see in the newly expanded Jewish Museum London,is also one of the museum’s oldest: the remains of a 13th-century Jewish ritual bath uncovered during a 2001 construction project. We see a doll, letters and photos carried by some of the 10,000 Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany by Britain
- [Peter Spiro obituary](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/peter-spiro-obituary/) - Our father, Peter Spiro, who has died aged 79, was a child Holocaust survivor. Born in Vienna, he came to Britain alone as an eight-year-old, on the kindertransport trains from Nazi-occupied Austria. Peter was later reunited with his father, a journalist, writer and radical, and then with his beloved mother. Peter was always grateful and
- [Is this the end of Holocaust literature?](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/is-this-the-end-of-holocaust-literature/) - 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, should the Holocaust's place in Jewish literature change? A quick look at the programme for Jewish Book Week shows a diverse range of topics, from cookery to sport, mathematics to Hebrew, the global economic crisis to the one in Israel-Palestine. And then, of course, there's the Holocaust: as
- [March 8: Fillmore East](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/march-8-fillmore-east/) - Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in New York’s East Village on this day in 1968 with a concert that featured Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin), Albert King, and Tim Buckley. Graham (Wolodia Grajonca) was given to a Berlin orphanage at age 8 by his Russian mother in Nazi Germany. He was
- [British heroes of the Holocaust honoured](https://kindertransport.org/2010/03/british-heroes-of-the-holocaust-honoured/) - The first ever recognition of Britons who saved the lives of Jews and other persecuted groups during the Holocaust will be bestowed by the Prime Minister. Mr Brown said: "It is right that we reflect and learn from the past as we go forward in the future. That is why I was pleased to create
- [A Survivor's Tale](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/a-survivors-tale/) - “I was 11-years-old, came home from school and my father said I could not go back to school the next day,” said Anne Herrman, a resident of Greenspring Village in Springfield. “He said he and my mother could not go to work.” “At midnight in April 1939, my sister and I were taken to the
- [ivolunteer Arranges Visits With Holocaust Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/ivolunteer-arranges-visits-with-holocaust-survivors/) - She turned to Heilbrunn and asked, “Am I giving you joy?” “Yes,” Heilbrunn replied. “The more I’m with Inge ... I get good feelings about our meetings,” Glicksman said. “I remember sitting at breakfast and hearing a knock at the door,” Heilbrunn said. Her father was taken and imprisoned in Buchenwald for a time. On
- [Bay Area Holocaust survivors respond to "Mein Kampf" exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/bay-area-holocaust-survivors-respond-to-mein-kampf-exhibit/) - The exhibit, which features 600 of the altered pages, will be in San Francisco at the Contemporary Jewish Museum through June 8, 2010. "France is having a very difficult time with facing its history of the Holocaust,I am amazed that that quality of response and the deep emotionalism comes from France." said Ralph Samuel, who
- [Holocaust survivor meets Walsall students](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/holocaust-survivor-meets-walsall-students/) - Susi Bechhofer visited a school as part of a week of events marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Susi Bechhofer, who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939, visited Barr Beacon Language College, and spoke to over 100 pupils about the atrocities and her journey in finding her true
- [Vernon W. Fischer dies: Retired anatomy professor at SLU](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/vernon-w-fischer-dies-retired-anatomy-professor-at-slu/) - Vernon W. Fischer, a popular retired professor at St. Louis University School of Medicine, died Tuesday (Feb. 2, 2010)after a lengthy illness and a stroke last year. Colleagues said Professor Fischer could make a dry subject — anatomy — meaningful. Senior medical students recognized him as a top teacher, awarding him their Golden Apple award.
- [Schooling students on horrors of war](https://kindertransport.org/2010/02/schooling-students-on-horrors-of-war/) - Martin Maxwell, 85, was 14 years old and about three months shy of earning a high school diploma when he fled Vienna in 1939. Maxwell escaped to England, joined the British armed forces, became a glider pilot, was captured behind enemy lines and later freed. Despite the horrors he has witnessed he maintains a cheerful
- [Suffolk pupils mark Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/suffolk-pupils-mark-holocaust-memorial-day/) - About 60 pupils from Lothingland and Gisleham Middle Schools caught a train to travel from Beccles to Lowestoft yesterday morning to recreate part of a journey made by Jewish refugee children as part of Holocaust Memorial Day. The children, who carried handmade replica suitcases on the trip, arrived at the station in time for the
- [Why we should never forget the holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/why-we-should-never-forget-the-holocaust/) - From the Uxbridge Gazette: 2,000 children from 33 schools will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in Northwood – the largest in the UK. Ann Kirk, 81, was just 10 when she left her parents in Germany in 1938 and escaped to England on a Kindertransport. "The Holocaust has become part of history but it's so important
- [Pupils learn Holocaust lessons](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/pupils-learn-holocaust-lessons/) - Primary school children from across Liverpool will unite at the Town Hall tomorrow to hear the stories of people affected by the Holocaust. They will meet three women who fled to the UK to escape the Holocaust and will take part in questions and discussions. Speaking to the young people will be Inge Goldrein, a
- [Holocaust survivor tells how she was brought to safety in Wales, aged 5](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/holocaust-survivor-tells-how-she-was-brought-to-safety-in-wales-aged-5/) - A woman who lost more than 65 members of her family in the Nazi Holocaust spoke of her devastating experiences, as part of a national commemoration. Mrs Collins was just five when she was bundled onto a train by her mother and family doctor with no idea where she was going on June 30, 1939.
- [Holocaust survivor shares his experiences with Dunmow school pupils](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/holocaust-survivor-shares-his-experiences-with-dunmow-school-pupils/) - Harry Bibring, a Holocaust survivor, is visiting The Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre, in Great Dunmow. He will be talking to Year 10 students about his experiences during an event organised to mark the international Holocaust Memorial Day. Mr Bibring was born in Austria in 1925. His family suffered from persecution following Germany's
- [Holocaust’s horrors live on in memories for Dorset man](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/holocausts-horrors-live-on-in-memories-for-dorset-man/) - His parents and sister perished at Auschwitz concentration camp. Sixty-five years later, Walter Kammerling ensured their memories lived on during moving Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in Bournemouth. As a youth, Walter witnessed Nazi persecution in Vienna before his parents sent him to Britain; a decision that would ultimately save his life.
- [Row over definition of Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/row-over-definition-of-holocaust-survivor/) - A row has broken out over the meaning of the term Holocaust survivor after an 85-year-old grandmother used it to describe herself when criticising Israeli action against Palestinians. German-born Hedy Epstein was attacked by a senior figure in the Zionist Federation who dismissed her as a refugee “touted as a trophy survivor” to help vilify
- [Holocaust escapee tells her story](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/holocaust-escapee-tells-her-story/) - A woman who lost 60 members of her family in the Nazi holocaust and escaped from Prague on the last children's train from the city in 1939 will tell her story at Bridgend's Holocaust Memorial Day. Renate Collins, who went on to grow up in the South Wales Valleys, lost approximately 60 members of her
- [Waveney remembers the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/waveney-remembers-the-holocaust/) - Waveney will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with special events to remember the part the district played over 70 years ago. The commemorations begin with a launch event at St Felix School, Southwold.The school took care of around 200 Jewish boys, aged 12-18 over the Christmas period in December 1938. On Holocaust Memorial Day 60 local
- [Haiti Q&A: The ethics of disaster adoption](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/haiti-qa-the-ethics-of-disaster-adoption/) - Q. Is it ethical to relocate children from disaster zones? A. There are honourable precedents such as the Kindertransport programme. But children's advocacy groups warn against mass airlifts of youngsters overseas in the wake of natural disasters... Given the chaotic state of communications in Haiti right now, a big fear is that some children may
- [Kindertransport refugee Erich Reich gets knighthood](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/kindertransport-refugee-erich-reich-gets-knighthood/) - A man who raised millions of pounds for charity after arriving in the UK as a four-year-old Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe is to become a knight. Erich Reich, 74, was among 10,000 "Kindertransport" children sent to the UK before the Second World War began.
- [Kindertransport refugee knighted by Queen Elizabeth](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/kindertransport-refugee-knighted-by-queen-elizabeth/) - Erich Reich, one of thousands of Kindertransport children sent from Nazi-occupied Europe to Britain during World War II, was among the people knighted by Queen Elizabeth as part of the annual New Year's Honours list, the Telegraph reported Thursday. Reich, 74, is chairman of the Kindertransport Group of the Association of Jewish Refugees, who organized
- [Millbury resident releases book on the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/millbury-resident-releases-book-on-the-holocaust/) - The 10,000 Children That Hitler Missed With very few family members still alive, more than six years ago, Lori Greshler started to research her own family tree. Through the digging, she realized her family lost approximately 100 members to the Holocaust. "It just touched me so much," says Greschler, "because their voices were stifled, I
- [Fred Rosenbaum, 1926-2010](https://kindertransport.org/2010/01/fred-rosenbaum-1926-2010/) - He said it to everyone, from Air National Guardsmen deploying to Iraq to the at-risk kids attending the summer camp he established at Camp Rilea. "America," he would say, "is the greatest country in the world." To the young ones, he would add, "You can go as high as you want to." He knew he
- ['Outbreak' show reveals Britain at war](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/outbreak-show-reveals-britain-at-war/) - Seventy years after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told his nation they were at war with Germany, London's Imperial War Museum has an exhibition exploring the outbreak of war in 1939 and the early years."Outbreak 1939" is on until September 2010. Outbreak 1939 also incorporates the stories and exhibits of a number of children, including
- [Hospice’s support inspired me to give help in return](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/hospices-support-inspired-me-to-give-help-in-return/) - A WOMAN touched by the help and support she and her mother received from a charity is saying thanks by becoming a volunteer. Marilyn, a medical secretary, from Lisvane, said: “Sir Nicholas Winton saved my mother and hundreds of other children and she always wanted to do as much for others as it was a
- [86 year old Ken Wilde gets master's degree](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/86-year-old-ken-wilde-gets-masters-degree/) - I'm proof it's never too late to go back to school, Wilde said. "But I don't recommend people wait this long." He was born Klaus Weiss and grew up in Berlin, where his father ran a family clothing store. He left Germany on a Kindertransport at the age of 15.
- [KInd Hedy Epstein interviewed in Democracy Now](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/kind-hedy-epstein-interviewed-in-democracy-now/) - AMY GOODMAN: Tell us a little more about yourself, Hedy. Talk about your early years in Germany and how you survived the Holocaust. HEDY EPSTEIN: I was born in Germany, and when Hitler came to power, I was eight years old. And my parents quickly realized that Germany was not a place to raise a
- [Bristol pupils learn horrors of war from survivors](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/bristol-pupils-learn-horrors-of-war-from-survivors/) - The world can seem like a safe and familiar sort of place when you're 13 years old and a pupil at the bustling Ashton Park School. The horrors of war could easily be confined to the grainy photographs in the books during your history lessons.But some Year 9 pupils at the south Bristol school have
- [Well-Traveled Life: Judge Ney’s Memoirs Subject Of Thursday Signing](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/well-traveled-life-judge-neys-memoirs-subject-of-thursday-signing/) - DENVER — Ever hear of the man who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, studied art, engineered for a space program and then decided to go to law school and became an appellate judge for 15 years? Former Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Peter Ney did. He’s lived that life, and he also wrote a book, “Getting
- [Jcore wins lottery cash](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/jcore-wins-lottery-cash/) - The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £47,000 to the Jewish Council for Racial Equality for a two-year education project on the Kindertransport. The aim is both to reflect the experience of young people who came to Britain to flee Hitler and to understand the lives of child refugees in the UK today.
- [Looking Beyond the Glittery Baubles](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/looking-beyond-the-glittery-baubles/) - Tucked into Booth 55 in a showroom at 36 West 47th Street is A. Friedman Trading, where the proprietors, Alex and Evelyn Friedman, specialize in pearls. The pearls are sold only to the trade, but a chat with Mr. Friedman, a Holocaust survivor, is worth the stop. With gentle prompting, he will tell you about
- [A duty of care](https://kindertransport.org/2009/12/a-duty-of-care/) - ‘THE stories would have us believe that all Jewish children live happily with their mother and father in a cheerful environment. Unfortunately, this picture is far too idyllic for dozens of Jewish children. These youngsters grew up, or spent time during their childhood, in children’s homes. This month, these people have come into the spotlight
- [In Austria, remembering prewar Jewish life, not just death](https://kindertransport.org/2009/10/in-austria-remembering-prewar-jewish-life-not-just-death/) - As a child of 12, Lilly Tauber, 82, whose photo of her grandparents’ shop is in the Linz exhibit,was put on a Kindertransport. She had never traveled alone and still remembers waving goodbye to her parents on the platform. Tauber never saw either of them again. "I can't forget what happened 70 years ago, whatever
- [Breaking Jewish News Updates Worldwide](https://kindertransport.org/2009/11/breaking-jewish-news-updates-worldwide/) - From the Jerusalem Post, coverage of the Nicky Winton trains.
- [Train from Prague to London an emotional journey](https://kindertransport.org/2009/11/train-from-prague-to-london-an-emotional-journey/) - Brenda Lewis knew when she headed to Prague in late August she was in for a rollercoaster ride of emotion, even though her mode of transport was a train. “I didn’t know what to expect except that it would be emotional,” said Lewis, of Guelph, whose father Heinze Laufer was one of the 667 children
- [Thanksgiving is special holiday for Harry Themal](https://kindertransport.org/2009/11/thanksgiving-is-special-holiday-for-harry-themal/) - He writes, in the Delaware News Journal: On Nov. 23, 1939, my mother and I landed in Miami after an overnight boat trip from Havana. After a 36-hour bus trip we reached Wilmington, where I have happily lived ever since. I have always been grateful that the relatives whom we joined and who had preceded
- [The Galilee region has something for everyone](https://kindertransport.org/2009/10/the-galilee-region-has-something-for-everyone/) - Lunch overlooking the sea at Kibbutz Lavi was a culinary and scenic delight. The religious-Zionist kibbutz in the lower Galilee was established in 1949 by a youth organization from England, many of whom had escaped the Holocaust through the kindertransport. Its first-class, ultra-modern hotel, surrounded by lavish gardens, was recently renovated and the rooms were
- [To be British and Jewish](https://kindertransport.org/2009/10/to-be-british-and-jewish/) - As a Jew my feelings toward Britain have always been mixed. My grandmother and her siblings came to Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939 with 10,000 other Jewish children. This British hospitality very likely saved their lives and certainly afforded them freedom and opportunity in beginning life anew. On the other hand their brother was
- [Call for Papers-The Kindertransport to Britain:  Developments in Research](https://kindertransport.org/2009/10/call-for-papers-the-kindertransport-to-britain-developments-in-research/) - The Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies invites contributions to Volume 13 of the Yearbook, which is to appear in 2011. If you wish to offer a contribution to this volume, please send a synopsis of around 300 words to Dr Andrea Hammel, email: a.hammel[at]sussex.ac.uk by 1 March 2010. If accepted, your paper
- [Memories of fleeing Nazis as a child](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/memories-of-fleeing-nazis-as-a-child/) - The haunting images -- all associated with Nazi atrocities and humiliation of Jewish people -- speak to an era that's back in the news, as the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of a triumph of the human spirit, the Kindertransport. In May 1939, 12-year-old Vera Coppard-Leibovic and her father were ushered into a room in
- [Wily Ernest is still going great guns](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/wily-ernest-is-still-going-great-guns/) - On Monday evening, I went to the 80th birthday party of the most dedicated football man I know. Ernest Hecht is the owner-chairman of Souvenir Press, a wonderfully eccentric publishing house that has remained proudly independent since it was set up in 1951. Hecht arrived in England with his mother on the Kindertransport at the
- [Siegfried Ramler: Witness to history](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/siegfried-ramler-witness-to-history/) - Born and raised in Austria, with two elder sisters settled in the nascent Zionist state of Palestine, Ramler was transported out of the country just before war broke out. Ramler's experiences at the Nuremberg trials are fascinating and form the heart of his new book.
- [Gustav Metzger: the liquid crystal revolutionary](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/gustav-metzger-the-liquid-crystal-revolutionary/) - In 1939, Metzger and his brother came to Britain via the Kindertransport. The rest of his family stayed in Germany. His two sisters eventually got out via Sweden. In 1943 his father was deported to Poland.His mother followed. They died. "Died," Metzger repeats softly. Gustav Metzger's art is at once playful and aggressive, plainly sincere,
- [Bahad-Bnei Akiva youth movement exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/bahad-bnei-akiva-youth-movement-exhibit/) - The Testimony House for the Heritage of the Holocaust in Moshav Nir Galim, near Ashdod, opened its galleries last week to an exhibit documenting the Bahad-Bnei Akiva youth movement's activities in promoting Zionism in pre-World War II Britain. Attendee Max Kopfstein was born in Berlin and now lives in Kibbutz Lavi, in the Galilee. Kopfstein,
- [Kindertransport letter discovered](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/kindertransport-letter-discovered/) - A previously undiscovered letter relating to the Kindertransport has been found in a house in Manningtree. Doreen Parsons, aged 76, discovered the letter, written on March 10, 1939, in a study at Lawford Place in 1963 after the death of her husband Newman but only ever told her family. Now she wants to find out
- [The action hero in my wallet](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/the-action-hero-in-my-wallet/) - For the past seven years, whenever I have tried to wrestle a stamp or a library card out of my overcrowded wallet, a yellowing and much- folded newspaper cutting has fallen to the floor. Last week, I opened a daily newspaper and saw the same face that looks out at me every day from the
- [A debt to the persecuted](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/a-debt-to-the-persecuted/) - Fritz Spiegl was a flautist, joker and composer of the Z-Cars theme. Until he died some years ago, I didn't know that as a boy fresh from his Kindertransport, he had been taken in by Captain David Margesson, Chamberlain's imperious chief whip.
- [Edgware woman relives Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/edgware-woman-relives-kindertransport/) - Hana Kleiner, 82, was just 12 when on July 30, 1939, her and sister Sonja, 13, said a tearful goodbye to their parents and boarded a train from Czechoslovakia to London. She knew nothing of the horror that awaited those she left behind in her home town Hradec Králové, where 1,096 Jewish people were killed
- [Rosh Hashanah In a Nazi Prison](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/rosh-hashanah-in-a-nazi-prison/) - In October 1938 Chaskel, along with close to 20,000 Polish Jews living in Germany, was deported to Poland, torn from his wife and children. For months Chaskel corresponded from Poland with his wife and finally convinced her to send their children to Belgium with a kindertransport. He desperately wrote to all their friends, acquaintances and
- [Wartime friends re-united after 30 years](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/wartime-friends-re-united-after-30-years/) - A Lancashire woman has told of her joy at discovering a youngster who stayed with her family during the war is still alive – after believing he had been dead for 30 years. Rolf Hertz, who is Jewish, fled Nazi Germany when he was 11 to stay with the family of Edith Johnston, 94, at
- [War refugee pays tribute to saviour](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/war-refugee-pays-tribute-to-saviour/) - With World War II imminent, a tearful Bob Fantl waved goodbye to his mother and sister in Prague and boarded a train to safety, knowing he might never see them again. The Wellington, New Zealand, man was one of 669 Jewish children transported out of the Czech capital by Sir Nicholas Winton in 1939, saving
- [Train from Prague carries kids who escaped Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/train-from-prague-carries-kids-who-escaped-nazis/) - The associated Press covers the 70th anniversary of the kindertransports from Czechoslovakia. Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton, arranged eight trains to carry 669 mostly Jewish children through Germany to Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Now 100 years old, Winton will be in London on Friday to greet the train's 170 passengers, including
- [British "Schindler" to meet children he saved](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/british-schindler-to-meet-children-he-saved/) - LONDON - British war hero Nicholas Winton, who helped evacuate hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before World War II, will meet on Friday some of the people he saved from Hitler's death camps. He managed to bring 669 mostly Jewish children on eight trains to Britain through Germany in 1939 but the ninth
- [WWII rescue train trip recreated](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/wwii-rescue-train-trip-recreated/) - From the BBC: A train carrying evacuees who escaped the Holocaust has been met in the UK by the man who arranged their rescue ahead of the start of World War II. It marks the 70th anniversary of trains organized by Sir Nicholas Winton that carried 669 mostly Jewish children to the UK. In a
- [Eva Hesse:The legacy of a life cut short – works as frail as their creator](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/eva-hessethe-legacy-of-a-life-cut-short-works-as-frail-as-their-creator/) - Hesse was born in Hamburg in 1936 to a family of observant Jews. At two, she was put on a Kindertransport, first to Holland, then England and finally, in 1939, to America. Thirty years later, in New York, she was diagnosed with the brain tumour from which she died, aged 34. Her career as an
- [The German refugee exiled again - on a dairy farm in Norfolk](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/the-german-refugee-exiled-again-on-a-dairy-farm-in-norfolk/) - When Celia Lee was evacuated from London to Norfolk at the outbreak of war, it was the second time in less than a year that she had been uprooted. The previous winter she was among the 10,000 Jewish children evacuated from Germany and surrounding countries as part of the Kindertransport, an attempt to get as
- [London Commemorates World War II Outbreak in Britain](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/london-commemorates-world-war-ii-outbreak-in-britain/) - German Jewish Celia Horwitz was part of the Kindertransport and was evacuated when in England. “Oh, it was so many moves at first and you know people said it must have been traumatic. And I thought: ‘Traumatic?’ I didn’t have time to think about it... You know when I think about the war and Hitler
- [London exhibition recalls history of first child refugees](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/london-exhibition-recalls-history-of-first-child-refugees/) - KTA member Celia Lee is featured in article about the the exhibition Outbreak 1939 at the Imperial War Museum in London. The exhibit looks at the mass evacuation of 2 million children from London and other British cities days before the war started in early September, 1939.
- [I'll bring Nazi to justice](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/ill-bring-nazi-to-justice/) - KURT Gutmann was only a boy when he was spirited away from the horrors of Sobibor to seek refuge among kind strangers in Scotland. But more than seven decades after his escape aboard the Kindertransport, Mr Gutmann is to realise his life's ambition by testifying in one of the last Nazi war criminal trials.
- [Retracing a life-saving journey](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/retracing-a-life-saving-journey/) - From the BBC, coverage of the Nicky Winton train. More than 100 people will travel between Prague and London; among them 20 of Winton's children, now with children and grandchildren of their own. They are part of an extraordinary worldwide family which owes its existence to the man who, at the age of 100, will
- [The Nicky Winton Train leaves Prague September 1, 2009](https://kindertransport.org/2009/09/the-nicky-winton-train-leaves-prague-september-1-2009/)
- [My Father, The Inglourious Basterd](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/my-father-the-inglourious-basterd/) - Quentin Tarantino's Nazi revenge movie may have plenty of drama but the real story is even better. Kim Masters on the heroic band of Jewish commandos known as X Troop. My father was an Inglourious Basterd. Actually, he was the opposite of that. But he was a Jewish commando in the British Army during World
- [R.I.P., David Marc Fischer, Devoted Blogger and Extraordinary Friend](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/r-i-p-david-marc-fischer-devoted-blogger-and-extraordinary-friend/) - A tribute to KT2 member David Fischer. There are no words to describe the sadness we feel at the death of David, the man behind (among many other projects and passions) Blog About Town, who was a friend of mine. I could never match his generosity or his ingenuity in getting fellow New Yorkers to
- [Returning ‘home’ after fleeing on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/returning-home-after-fleeing-on-the-kindertransport/) - Craig A. Spiegel writes, in the Cleveland Jewish News, of his trip with his mother, Cleveland resident Thea Lange Spiegel, to a reunion of Kindertransport Kinder in Gdansk (formerly Danzig), Poland.
- [Baders have castle named in their honour](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/baders-have-castle-named-in-their-honour/) - When he was 14, Alfred Bader was sent out of Austria on a kindertransport. He ended up interned in Canada. By 1941, he had applied to Canadian universities. Toronto and McGill rejected him, having decided that they had enough Jews already. Queen's, however, accepted the young man, who eventually completed degrees in history and chemistry.
- [More excerpts from the life of a refugee](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/more-excerpts-from-the-life-of-a-refugee/) - Retired Sheffield teacher Inge Joseph, who came to Britain as a 12-year-old refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, has had a third volume of her memoirs - My Darling Diary – Vol III - published. The honesty and frankness of her diary-keeping (using the pen name Ingrid Jacoby) has already caught widespread attention through Radio 4 programmes
- [Holocaust survivor Susi Bechhofer gives talk to Perry Barr pupils](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/holocaust-survivor-susi-bechhofer-gives-talk-to-perry-barr-pupils/) - PUPILS at a Birmingham school learned first hand about the horrors of the Holocaust when they were visited by a survivor of the Nazis’ efforts to exterminate all Jews during the 1930s and 40s. Susi told the pupils how she escaped to London with her twin sister on the Kindertransport taking Jewish children out of
- [Students learn from Holocaust survivor](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/students-learn-from-holocaust-survivor/) - More than 75 students listened to Holocaust survivor Walter Kammerling talk about his personal experiences as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Mr Kammerling was among thousands of Jewish children evacuated from Austria under the Kindertransport scheme. He was born in 1923 in Vienna and was 14 when Nazi Germany occupied
- [Michael Steinberg remembered](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/michael-steinberg-remembered/) - Born in Breslau in 1928, Michael was one of 10,000 Jewish children saved from Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport. After immigrating to the U.S., he trained as a musicologist and became a renowned music writer.
- [Music writer Michael Steinberg dies](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/music-writer-michael-steinberg-dies/) - Michael Steinberg, widely recognized as one of the most important writers on classical music of our time passed away this morning at age 80. Born in Germany in 1928, he spent part of his childhood in England via the Kindertransport. It was in England that he first discovered his love of music. In his book
- [Curtis Mann, Holocaust survivor, lawyer, dies](https://kindertransport.org/2009/07/curtis-mann-holocaust-survivor-lawyer-dies/) - Curtis L. Mann, a lawyer and Holocaust survivor, died Saturday (July 25, 2009) at Brooking Park in Chesterfield. He was 83. Mr. Mann was born in Frankfurt, Germany. At 13, he boarded a Kindertransport which would take him to England. "The children were of school age, from about 6 to 17, and they had one
- [Harwich: Festival to celebrate Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/harwich-festival-to-celebrate-kindertransport/) - A HARWICH festival is celebrating a very special anniversary. Harwich Festival of the Arts is marking 70 years since the Kindertransport, when more than 10,000 children, who were mostly Jewish, were shipped to Harwich to escape Nazi oppression. For more information: www.harwichfestival.co.uk
- [Professor on the frontline in fight to explain casualties of war](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/professor-on-the-frontline-in-fight-to-explain-casualties-of-war/) - Simon Wessely is an internationally renowned expert on Gulf War illnesses.Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research, his team's work has influenced policy on the health of British armed forces. "I've never made a secret of the fact that I greatly admire our armed services and feel we don't value them enough.Those feelings
- [A return participant in the Maccabiah...59 years later](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/a-return-participant-in-the-maccabiah-59-years-later/) - Joe Wohlfarth is affably modest for someone who has represented Great Britain in the Maccabiah games - a quality that is magnified when you discover that he played on the British soccer team twice, in 1950 and 1957, and that he is preparing to represent Israel in the tennis masters, at the age of 77,
- [Berlin to Bonfils: A theatrical life](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/berlin-to-bonfils-a-theatrical-life/) - Henry Lowenstein was born July 4, 1925, and grew up in Berlin, where his parents hosted nightly parties for artists of all kinds. One of his father's best friends was composer Kurt Weill, who worked out his masterpiece "The Three penny Opera" on the Lowenstein family piano. Lowenstein's war stories are harrowing. At 13, he
- [The real Inglourious Basterds:  Britain's secret Jewish commandos](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/the-real-inglourious-basterds-britains-secret-jewish-commandos/) - The troop was recruited from the tens of thousands of refugees who had fled to Britain from the Nazi persecution of the Jewish population before the war. When war began, they were classified as enemy aliens amid fears of infiltration by fifth columnists, and interned. But as time went by, distrust eased and men of
- [Lest We Forget](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/lest-we-forget/) - The Arlington Human Rights Commission sponsored a talk on the Holocaust by Kind Fred Manasse and Dr. Margot Segall-Blank. The two speakers were children when they saw their native Germany transform from familiar neighborhoods into a place they had to flee.
- [Imperial War Museum to Open Exhibition on Build-up to WWII](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/imperial-war-museum-to-open-exhibition-on-build-up-to-wwii/) - When plans to evacuate civilians from towns and cities were put into action on 31 August 1939, millions of children’s lives were immediately changed. Outbreak 1939 will incorporate the stories and exhibits of a number of those children, including a teddy bear belonging to a little girl evacuated on 3 September 1939; and an exercise
- [Memory of Anne Frank brings youngsters together](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/memory-of-anne-frank-brings-youngsters-together/) - A Kind works with the Anne Frank Project in Great Britain: St Mary's pupils had a talk from Henry Wuga, originally from Nuremburg, who described being beaten up by the SS and watching Hitler giving a speech. He also recalled how he was treated with suspicion by the authorities when he arrived in Scotland as
- [2 Oneonta men remain witnesses to D-Day, 65 years later](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/2-oneonta-men-remain-witnesses-to-d-day-65-years-later/) - It has been 65 years since D-Day, but the memories haven’t faded for two Oneonta men who fought in the invasion of Normandy, the Allied offensive that was a turning point in Europe during World War II. Ernest Goodman, who escaped Breslau on a Kindertransport in 1939, was an infantryman fighting with the elite British
- [80th anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth](https://kindertransport.org/2009/06/80th-anniversary-of-anne-franks-birth/) - Ruth Joseph, whose mother was one of 10,000 child refugees who fled Nazi Germany in the kindertransport, wants every child in Wales to read Anne Frank’s diary as part of their schooling. Her mother, Judith Heyman, was sent to Britain at the age of 12. She carried the family’s set of candlesticks used to celebrate
- [Human Rights Commission to host Holocaust remembrance event](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/human-rights-commission-to-host-holocaust-remembrance-event/) - Arlington, Mass. - The Arlington Human Rights Commission is honored to host “Lest We Forget: Memories and Lessons from the Holocaust” on Thursday, May 21. Dr. Fred K. Manasse, a child survivor of the Holocaust who witnessed the burning of his synagogue during Kristallnacht, will describe his wartime experiences. He was sent on a Kindertransport
- [Point of view: The teenager who arrested Himmler](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/point-of-view-the-teenager-who-arrested-himmler/) - Holocaust survivor Guy Bishop passed away on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2008. Few people know that he arrested Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi responsible for the mass murder of 6 million Jews. Guy Bishop was born Günther Brüg on April 9, 1926, in Germany and was sent to England on the Kindertransport, in July 1939.
- [Inglorious? No. Bastards? Never. Meet the real Tarantino war heroes](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/inglorious-no-bastards-never-meet-the-real-tarantino-war-heroes/) - Like the soldiers portrayed on screen, the men of 3 Troop, 10 Commando, a unit of the British Army that was almost entirely composed of German-speaking Jewish refugees, were motivated by a hatred of Nazism and were sent on secret missions, often behind enemy lines. But any similarities end there. At the age of Max
- [Major retrospective of artist Gustav Metzger](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/major-retrospective-of-artist-gustav-metzger/) - Born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1926 to Polish-Jewish parents, Gustav Metzger was evacuated to England with his brother Max/Mendel as part of the Kindertransport in 1939. This overview presented by the Serpentine Gallery represents the influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger's life-long exploration of politics, ecology and the destructive powers of 20th-century industrialised societies. Destruction,
- [Holocaust survivor describes experience to students](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/holocaust-survivor-describes-experience-to-students/) - Holocaust survivor Felix Weil, 81, tells his life story of survival to Mrs. DiCuirci fifth grade classroom at Xenia Christian School. In the late 1930s, Felix Weil's life was spared from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport. And had it not been for a clerical mistake, Felix Weil of Clayton,Ohio, could not have been at Xenia
- [Memorial service honors Holocaust victims, rescuers](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/memorial-service-honors-holocaust-victims-rescuers/) - Marianne Bern and her sister fled Nazi Germany for England in 1939 though the Kindertransport. On Tuesday, Bern participated in the third annual Holocaust Remembrance Day service in the Cedar Valley. She lit a candle in memory of victims of the Holocaust and read a self-authored poem about horrors suffered under Hitler's rule.
- [Charity should be part of everyday life, says ambassador](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/charity-should-be-part-of-everyday-life-says-ambassador/) - Everybody in Britain should give some of their time or their money to charity as a routine part of life, according to the "ambassador" appointed by Gordon Brown to promote philanthropy. Dame Stephanie Shirley, a Kind from Austria,who was given the job last week, said philanthropy should be part of everyday life.
- [Council leader's family torn apart by Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/council-leaders-family-torn-apart-by-holocaust/) - My grandmother took my father to the platform, put him on a train and waved goodbye knowing it was likely to be the last time she would see her son,” said Rod Bluh. “That takes some kind of courage.” Rod is well-known throughout Swindon as the tough-talking leader of the borough council. Yet he tells
- [A Child's Perspective on the Holocaust, Then and Now](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/a-childs-perspective-on-the-holocaust-then-and-now/) - Though Sam Barriskell is nearly 70 years younger than Lilly Drukker, the 13-year-old was keenly aware that in a different time and place, her story could easily have been his. Drukker was only 11 when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, and on Sunday, she held Barriskell and an intimate group of his peers rapt
- [Polish city gets memorial to kids who fled Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/2009/05/polish-city-gets-memorial-to-kids-who-fled-nazis/) - A monument was unveiled Wednesday in the Polish port city of Gdansk remembering 10,000 Jewish children evacuated to Britain to save them from the Nazis. The bronze memorial went up in front of the main train station in Gdansk, a city on the Baltic Sea coast that at the time was Danzig, a free city
- [Czech consulate marks two historical events](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/czech-consulate-marks-two-historical-events/) - In a sombre ceremony at the University of Toronto, the Czech Republic recently marked the 70th anniversary of two separate – but ultimately related – events. On March 14, 1939, the first rescue train of Jewish children, known as the kindertransport, pulled out of Prague, bound for Britain. One day later, the German army marched
- [World War II refugee recalls ‘Schindler’s List’ of the prairie](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/world-war-ii-refugee-recalls-schindlers-list-of-the-prairie/) - Irmgard Rosenzweig got out of Germany in March 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. She lived in a foster home for more than a year while her parents secretly plotted their escape. With the help of the American Friends Service Committee, the family was reunited in New York City in the summer of 1940 and
- [Parents' Escape From Nazis Inspires Entrepreneur](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/parents-escape-from-nazis-inspires-entrepreneur/) - National Public Radio interviews James Jacobson, a self-professed serial entrepreneur, who feels many life lessons stem from the lives of his parents, who fled Germany and the Nazis as young children, and eventually made their way to St. Louis, where they found each other and married. When his father was 7, he was put on
- [Holocaust survivor tells of his terrible experience](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/holocaust-survivor-tells-of-his-terrible-experience/) - A Holocaust survivor who escaped to Britain as a teenager has shared his tragic experiences with students at Wallington County Grammar School. Harry Bibring, 83, escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna on a Kindertransport train after his father’s menswear business was destroyed during Kristallnacht. His father later died of a heart attack after being robbed while buying travel
- [Aiken man tells his story of struggle](https://kindertransport.org/2009/04/aiken-man-tells-his-story-of-struggle/) - Friedel (Fred) Ransenberg was born in Wenneman, Germany, the second oldest of six children. His father, Jakob Ransenberg, an Iron Cross recipient and decorated sergeant in the German Army during World War I, supported his family as a butcher. Before the drastic rise of anti-Semitism, Ransenberg and his brothers played soccer on the local team

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- [Board Members](https://kindertransport.org/about/board-members/) - Melissa Hacker Executive Director Melissa Hacker, Executive Director of the KTA, is the daughter of a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna, Austria. Melissa was the first Second Generation member to serve as President of the Kindertransport Association (2013-2023). Read More During that decade, Melissa was instrumental in bringing the KTA forward, embarking on a multi-year strategic
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- [Historical Timeline](https://kindertransport.org/history/historical-timeline/) - Introduction The first 200 Kindertransport children. Jewish refugees from Germany arrive in Harwich, England December 2nd, 1938. Photo courtesy of the USHMM The first Kindertransport arrived at Harwich, England on December 2, 1938, bringing 196 children from Germany. Most of the transports left by train from Vienna, Berlin, Prague and other major cities (children from
- [Our Mission](https://kindertransport.org/about/our-mission/) - To Connect those who, many years ago, were directly involved in the Kindertransports, and their families and descendants. To Educate and inform about the Kindertransports as an important part of Holocaust History. To Support and Advocate for child refugees and children in need today. The KTA is a not-for profit organization, headed by a membership-elected
- [Kindertransport FAQ](https://kindertransport.org/education/kindertransport-faq/) - What is a Holocaust survivor? A Holocaust survivor is a person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, and political policies of the Nazis and their allies. The Kindertransport children are child Holocaust survivors. Why is the Kindertransport important? The Kindertransport saved only close to 10,000 children, a small number
- [Voices of the Kinder](https://kindertransport.org/voices/voices-of-the-kinder/) - Soon after the founding of the Kindertransport Association, a group of members of the Second Generation (KT2s) began meeting in New York City. We soon realized that one thing we had in common was that we knew only fragments of our parents’ stories, and we wanted to learn more. This led to the formation of
- [Resources - Search Results](https://kindertransport.org/education/resources-search-results/) - Found 422 Results Page 1 of 43 ‘Closeness’ and ‘distance’ in Holocaust survivors’ accounts of mother-child relations by Angela Davis (2019); Published by Oral History Society This article explores how Holocaust survivors narrate their relationships with their mothers, focusing on the emotional tension between closeness and distance. Drawing on forty oral‑history interviews with women who
- [Resources](https://kindertransport.org/education/resources/) - These resources have been compiled by the Kindertransport Association as an effort to make it easier for students, researchers, Kindertransport generations, and all interested parties to locate Kindertransport materials available in print, film, and online. Use the search feature or browse by category. More history and stories about the Kindertransport can be found in our History and Voices sections.
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- [Kindertransport Writing](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/) - Voices of the Kinder is a showcase for memoirs, stories, poetry... all genres of writing by members of the Kindertransport Association. KTA members of all generations are invited to submit materials, using this form, or writing to info@kindertransport.org. Olga's Legacy The legacy of Olga Bergmann Gabanyi Grilli and her family, by Susan Ingram. Originally published
- [The Journey](https://kindertransport.org/history/the-journey/) - The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History The first transport from Berlin embarks at the Hook of Holland, December 1, 1938 In 1938, immediately after the November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom in the German Reich, the Jews of Britain initiated the unique rescue operation now known as 'Kindertransport'. Within days they obtained
- [Memory Quilts](https://kindertransport.org/history/memory-quilts/) - The Kindertransport Quilts are a form of folk art that allows multiple artists, each with their own artistic expression, to produce an individual work with a unifying theme. Each square expresses its creator’s view of the Kindertransport experience: pictures of the past, fears and nightmares, memorials to lost family. They express traumatic childhood experiences, as
- [Exhibits](https://kindertransport.org/education/exhibits/) - The Kindertransport Journey Museum Quality Traveling Exhibit The Kindertransport Association has created a series of exhibition panels that trace the epic journey of the Kindertransport from 1938 into the 21st century. These panels are designed for exhibition in Holocaust Museums and Study Centers, Universities, and Jewish Community Centers. The full set of exhibition panels consists
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- [Olga’s Legacy](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/olgas-legacy/) - by Susan Ingram; Originally published in the Baltimore Jewish Times, June 5, 2019. Posted with permission. There are many stories, perhaps millions, of Holocaust survivor descendants who are alive today only because the tenuous threads between life and death were not broken: The chance encounters, the last-minute escapes, the miraculous endurance, the courageous decisions to leap into
- [Our Founder](https://kindertransport.org/about/our-founder/) - KTA Founder Eddy Berhendt (1930 - 2005) Eddy Behrendt at the first KTA Reunion in 1990. Eddy (Edward) Behrendt, Founder of the Kindertransport Association, a Holocaust Survivor and Next Generations organization, passed away on November 9, 2005 from multiple organ failure in Eugene, Oregon. His beloved wife Sarah was by his side. "I found it
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- [Trace Family History](https://kindertransport.org/history/trace-family-history/) - Growing up with parents or grandparents who didn't talk about, or didn't know, the details of how they and their relatives survived, escaped or were murdered during the Holocaust, many of us are searching for details and documentation. It could be as part of a school family history project, assembling a family tree and finding
- [Panels 14-17](https://kindertransport.org/history/the-journey/panels-14-17/) - Panel 12: The lost families Panel 14: Return to Zion After the war many emigrate to Palestine; many fight in Israel's War of Independence, many fall. The founding of Kibbutz Lavi by Kinder in 1949. "What will you do in our land, where the sun burns so hot? We'll create with our hands, we will build
- [Panels 10-13](https://kindertransport.org/history/the-journey/panels-10-13/) - Panel 7: Dovercourt Panel 10: Internment and deportation In 1940, fearing invasion, the British government interns adult refugees from Germany and Austria as potential fifth columnists. Kindertransport boys over 16 are interned; some are deported to Canada and Australia with adult refugees. Driven from Germany as Jews, interned in England as Germans - from the 'Llandough
- [Panels 1-4](https://kindertransport.org/history/the-journey/panels-1-4/) - Panel 3: The November 9 Pogrom Panel 1: The Kindertransport Journey Overview. The first Berlin transport, December 1, 1938 Panel 2: Five shots in Paris Herschel Grynszpan, 17 years old, assassinates the German diplomat von Rath to avenge the deportation of his parents to Poland. November 7, 1938. "With God's help, my dear parents, I could not
- [Kaddish in London](https://kindertransport.org/history/historical-timeline/kaddish-in-london/) - In 1988 Bertha Leverton, a Kindertransport child from Munich living in London, began to plan a local 50th anniversary reunion of the Kindertransports. The news spread and the local gathering became an international reunion. In the years after World War II, Kinder gathered together. Kindertransport Survivors who had lived in the same hostel, school, foster
- [Life in Britain](https://kindertransport.org/history/historical-timeline/life-in-britain/) - Henri Zang, Max Spiro, Egon Drab, and Kurt Deutsch in the Priory, a children's home in Selkirk Scotland, 1940. Photo courtesy of the USHMM Children who had prearranged sponsors waiting for them were sent to London and towns throughout Britain. The many unsponsored children waited in Dovercourt, a summer holiday camp, and other transient camps
- [Rising to the Moment](https://kindertransport.org/history/historical-timeline/rising-to-the-moment/) - Identification card issued to Inge Engelhard, a German Jewish refugee child, permitting her to be admitted to the United Kingdom under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for children. Image courtesy of the USHMM In response to the events of November 9 and 10, the British Jewish Refugee Committee appealed to members of Parliament and
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- [Internment](https://kindertransport.org/history/historical-timeline/internment/) - During the fifth column scare in 1940, more than one thousand Kindertransportees over the age of sixteen, both boys and girls, were sent out of Britain to be interned on the Isle of Man and other sites. Sent on the same ships as Nazi POWs, some boys were transported to Canada, some to Australia aboard
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- [Hit By A Nazi Bigwig](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/hit-by-a-nazi-bigwig/) - by Paul Kuttner Paul Kuttner as a baby in 1923 in Berlin with his mother Margarete Kuttner. In the First World War, Margarete Kuttner (maiden name: Fraenkel) was a nurse and later became a piano teacher. She had two children: Annemarie and Paul. According to the International Tracing Service of Arolsen (Germany), she was killed
- [My Sister's Sex Appeal Hit The Wrong Target](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/my-sisters-sex-appeal-hit-the-wrong-target/) - by Paul Kuttner Paul Kuttner, at the age of 5, and his sister Annemarie (1912-1964) in Berlin. This photo was taken around 1927. Annemarie was a dental assistant in Berlin and, later, in New York City. During World War II she was hidden underground by Frau Dora Klimmeck. After Frau Klimmeck had died, Annemarie helped
- [1933-1938 in the Reich](https://kindertransport.org/history/historical-timeline/1933-1938-in-the-reich/) - Immediately after Adolf Hitler's ascent to power in Germany in 1933 his Nazi government launched a campaign of persecution against Jews. Within months, tens of thousands of Jews left Germany. But soon emigration slowed considerably as visas became impossible to obtain. In an effort to deal with the “refugee problem” – or more accurately, the
- [Panels 5-9](https://kindertransport.org/history/the-journey/panels-5-9/) - Panel 6: They departed in haste Panel 5: The first transport from Vienna Truus Wijsmuller saves 630 children on one train, December 10, 1938. "We remind again that the luggage must contain nothing but the children's personal items. Any forbidden additions will result in the child not being taken along." - Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Vienna. Panel 6: They
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- [Past Events](https://kindertransport.org/events/past-events/) - Rebuilding Lives: From Refuge to Opportunity June 17, 2026 2:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT Public event Speaker World Jewish Relief USA hosts a special webinar in advance of World Refugee Day webinar focused on one of the defining humanitarian challenges of our [...] More Info 07 Jun KTA Social Chat with Leni Schmeidel
- [Kozeny kufr](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/kozeny-kufr/) - by Tom Berman Kufry jako tenhle se uz nevyrabi. Byla doba, kdy tenhleten kufr udelali jeste z kuze, dukladne sesite velkymi stehy, s ochrannymi kovovymi ruzky. Byly doby, kdy cesta znamenala vlak, parnik, nepreklenutelnou dalku, cekani na ridnouci postu, tydny, pak mesice, pak nic. Detsky vlak napric Reichem zastavuje a znovu se rozjizdi... Nizozemi, osvetleny
- [Leaving](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/leaving/) - by Irene Katzenstein Schmied Irene Schmied, 1938. "In the summer of 1938 my mother and I went over to England on an exploratory visit on this ship. There she made contact with her ‘English’ relatives who gave a guarantee for us both but not for my father. It was on that trip that this photo
- [A New Home](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/a-new-home/) - by Irene Katzenstein Schmied On the right, Irene Schmied with Eva Fischer Dart, her Viennese Kind foster sister, and Pauline Muirhead, their foster mother, at the Muirhead home, 1946 On a Friday afternoon in early April 1939, I stood with my mother on a platform at Victoria Station. Several ladies seemed to be hovering around
- ["Departure" (January 19, 1939)](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/departure-january-19-1939/) - by Irene Katzenstein Schmied Irene Schmied and her mother, who came on a visit to the home of Irene's foster parents England, winter of 1939-1940 Our Kindertransport group had arrived in Hamburg in time for lunch at a Jewish Domestic Science School. By afternoon, a bus drove us through the streets of the town to
- [D-Day Without The Shooting](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/d-day-without-the-shooting/) - by Paul Kuttner Almost exactly half-a-year before I was injured on December 14, 1944 in my left leg by the shrapnel of a Nazi V-1 bomb (nicknamed "Doodlebug") near High Holborn in London, I had one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life. As fate would have it, that disagreeable event took place in
- [In The Same Boat With A Nazi](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/in-the-same-boat-with-a-nazi/) - by Paul Kuttner Paul Kuttner Born September 20, 1922 in Berlin Austrians and Germans in Great Britain who did not join the British Army were considered enemy aliens during World War II and interned after the fall of France in the summer of 1940. I was interned in the English Midlands, in stables on the
- [Leslie Howard, "Doody" and Me](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/leslie-howard-doody-and-me/) - by Paul Kuttner Paul Kuttner Born September 20, 1922 in Berlin When I left Nazi Germany (Berlin) with the Kindertransport of February 8, 1939, I was heartbroken that I had to leave my entire family behind. I was 16 at the time, spoke very little English, and at first stayed with a family of hunting-dog
- [Hitler's Photo Did The Trick](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/hitlers-photo-did-the-trick/) - by Paul Kuttner Paul Kuttner in Berlin at the age of 8, in the summer of 1931 About half a year before Crystal Night (Kristallnacht of November 1938), I fell sick with the flu and had to stay home from my Berlin school. To make ends meet, my mother had to rent out rooms and
- [A Dangerous Religious Service](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/a-dangerous-religious-service/) - by Paul Kuttner Perhaps the most prominent German anti-Nazi Protestant clergyman in the Third Reich, a man who also helped German Jews during the Nazi period, was Dr. Martin Niemoller. His autobiography "Vom U-Boot zur Kanzel" (From U-boat to Pulpit) was banned in Nazi Germany but after World War II became a bestseller in West
- [When Goring Forgot To Say Heil Hitler!](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/when-goring-forgot-to-say-heil-hitler/) - by Paul Kuttner Almost exactly four years after I had my involuntary encounter with Hitler, I had a strange experience with the then-Reich Luftfahrtsminister Hermann Goring. In 1937, my father, Dr. Paul Kuttner Sr. of Kurfurstendamm 72, Berlin, had a stroke which incapacitated him totally, laming his entire right side. One of his best friends,
- [Potatoes Did Not Interest The Gestapo](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/potatoes-did-not-interest-the-gestapo/) - by Paul Kuttner During my summer vacations in the 1930's I often visited my grandmother in Hamburg and was lucky enough to get a job in the local grocery store owned by Reinhold and Irma Bruhn. As the photo shows I helped carrying groceries to local customers in the mornings and in the afternoons assisted
- [Hitler And Me: Camera - Action!](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/hitler-and-me-camera-action/) - by Paul Kuttner In the summer of 1933, when I was 10 years old, and in August 1937, when I was 14, I had two brief encounters with the two top leaders of the Nazi regime, Hitler and Goring. Through most of the 1920's until his dismissal by Dr. Goebbels in the fall of 1933,
- [March 1938 - August 1940: A Personal History of My Family During 30 Turbulent Months](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/march-1938-august-1940-a-personal-history-of-my-family-during-30-turbulent-months/) - by Hans Schneider The author at Warsaw Airport in November 1938. The sleeve is his father's. When the German army marched into Austria in March 1938, my father expected a return to some kind of ghetto existence. Both my parents were dentists in Vienna: my mother, Bella (Isabella), worked for the municipal dental service inspecting
- [In Memoriam to Norbert and Ignatz Kalter](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/in-memoriam-to-norbert-and-ignatz-kalter/) - by Kind Lothar Frenkel NORBERT KALTER 1896-1918 IGNATZ KALTER 1897-1940 45 years ago, in October of 1952, when our young family first came to America, my cousins in New York gave me the possessions left by my uncle Ignatz who had committed suicide in New York in February of 1940. My inheritance consisted of a
- [Memories of a Kind in Holland](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/memories-of-a-kind-in-holland/) - by Harry W. Ebert Harry Ebert with his wife Hanni and the mayor of Dachau during their 50th wedding anniversary reception, 1997. Harry and Hanni were married in Dachau in 1947 when he was stationed there with the US Army's War Crimes Commission. After Kristallnacht, Holland was one of the few countries that accepted Jewish
- [VIENNA, 1938: A Child's View](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/vienna-1938-a-childs-view/) - by Kurt Fuchel "Times are Bad," Mutti says. Papa doesn't go to work any more, and he doesn't talk much. He plays with me, but he doesn't smile. I ask, "What is the matter? Was I bad? Did I make too much noise, did Frau Brandt come up again?" Papa tells me, "Times are Bad,
- [Q & A with Kurt Fuchel](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/q-a-with-kurt-fuchel/) - BIRTH DATE: September 11, 1931 BIRTHPLACE: Vienna, Austria NATIONALITY: U.S. WHERE YOU CURRENTLY LIVE? Rocky Point, NY ARE/WERE YOU MARRIED? Yes DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN? Two daughters, three step-daughters 1. How many siblings did you have? No blood siblings; one "foster" brother in England 2. What profession were your parents in? Father: Bank Manager in Austria, miscellaneous jobs in France
- [Winton Train Sept. 1st-4th 2009 (Kindertransport revisited)](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/winton-train-sept-1st-4th-2009-kindertransport-revisited/) - by Tom Berman Smelling again the steam train smells soot coming in the window as we cross the landscapes of the Czech lands, woods and rolling fields to Nürnberg of dark memories; the Rhineland- and a choir of kinder singing: Kde moj dom…. to Cologne; along the level plains of Holland night crossing to Harwich
- [Terry, Czechoslovakia 1940](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/terry-czechoslovakia-1940/) - by Tom Berman Together we were pups Six legs between us I remember you Spoilt brat Rolling on the floor Screaming in a tantrum Chases in the garden Wrestling on the lawn Over the hill To our multi scented stream We grew together You and I Whispering sweet secrets Smells mingling in brotherhood You had
- [Hronov Homecoming, 1994](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/hronov-homecoming-1994/) - by Tom Berman It's not really a homecoming Sent to an unknown safety, I have not lived in this house for more than half a century This should be a visit of coming to terms with a latent past black and white photos of my relatives on the back verandah in the summer sunshine my
- [The Leather Suitcase](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/the-leather-suitcase/) - by Tom Berman They don’t make suitcases like that any more. Time was, when this case was made solid, leather, heavy stitching with protective edges at the corners. Time was, when voyage meant train, steamship distances unbridgeable waiting for a thinning mail weeks, then months, then nothing Children’s train, across the Reich stops and starts
- [Kindertransport memory, June 1939](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/kindertransport-memory-june-1939/) - by Tom Berman Night… from the ship a gangplank to England sea smells rising……yellow lights swaying line of labeled children disembarking from a darkening Continent
- [Should Kinder of the Kindertransports be Considered Holocaust Survivors?](https://kindertransport.org/voices/kindertransport-writing/should-kinder-of-the-kindertransports-be-considered-holocaust-survivors/) - by Ralph Mollerick The title of this essay may be argued in ways that depend on the definition of who is a Holocaust Survivor. A visit to the KTA website and a click on the History tab, will take the reader to frequently asked questions. The first question addresses this topic: "What is a Holocaust
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## Events

- [The World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants Conference, Philadelphia, PA](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-world-federation-of-jewish-holocaust-survivors-descendants-conference-philadelphia-pa/) - The WFJHS&D 36th Annual Conference will be October 23-26, in Philadelphia, PA with the theme: Survivors' Journey to Freedom: A Legacy of Resilience and Contribution The WFJHS&D conference is open to Survivors, descendants, their partners and spouses, and institutions engaged in Holocaust education and memorialization. Over the course of three days a very special international
- [KTA Social Chat with Leni Schmeidel and Luca Kuhlman](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-social-chat-with-leni-schmeidel-and-luca-kuhlman/) - Join KTA Spring 2026 intern Leni Schmeidel and Luca Kuhlman as they speak with KT2 Linda Waldroup. As young German women, Leni and Luca will share how researching the history of the Kindertransports and building personal connections with Kindertransport generations has profoundly shaped their lives and perspectives. Luca Kuhlmann grew up in Dorsten, a town
- ["Für das Kind" exhibit in Austria](https://kindertransport.org/events/fur-das-kind-exhibit-in-austria/) - One suitcase and one piece of hand luggage—sounds like a leisurely holiday trip. Don’t you agree? Yet this—and nothing more—is precisely what the approximately 10,000 children took with them when they were brought to safety in Great Britain between early December 1938 and September 1, 1939, from the countries occupied by the National Socialists: Austria,
- [Rebuilding Lives: From Refuge to Opportunity](https://kindertransport.org/events/rebuilding-lives-from-refuge-to-opportunity/) - World Jewish Relief USA hosts a special webinar in advance of World Refugee Day webinar focused on one of the defining humanitarian challenges of our time: how those forced to flee violence and persecution move beyond immediate safety toward dignity, opportunity, and the rebuilding of their lives, and how Jewish values inform that response. The
- [Kindertransport: A Transnational Journey](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-a-transnational-journey/) - The KTA is thrilled to partner with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility to support exciting new scholarship on the Kindertransports: Kindertransport: A Transnational Journey. By Dr. Amy Williams and Professor Bill Niven, to be published by Yale University Press in 2027, in the 89th year after the Kindertransports. You can read about some
- [KTA Boooks and More Talk: Commandment 613: A Sacred Craft with KT2 filmmaker Miriam Lewin](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-boooks-and-more-talk-commandment-613-a-sacred-craft-with-kt2-filmmaker-miriam-lewin/) - KT2 Miriam Lewin will present her short documentary Commandment 613, about a scribe who restores Torah scrolls saved in Czechoslovakia during the Shoah. These Torahs are now loaned by the Memorials Scrolls Trust in London to synagogues and communities all over the world. We’ll watch the 23-minute film together, and then have a Q&A with Miriam
- [“I Seek a Kind Person” — Advertising and the Kindertransport Rescue Operation](https://kindertransport.org/events/i-seek-a-kind-person-advertising-and-the-kindertransport-rescue-operation/) - Join us for a fascinating discussion! Julian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers. Julian Borger is The Guardian‘s senior international
- [Lore Segal - Still Talking, New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/lore-segal-still-talking-new-york-city/) - Please join the KTA at the Center for Jewish History in New York Cty for the closing event of the Leo Baeck Institute's exhibition "And That's True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal." Lore Segal was a Kindertransport survivor and longtime KTA member, who spoke at the very first KTA reunion in 1990.
- [Annual Gathering of Remembrance 2026 - New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/annual-gathering-of-remembrance-2026-new-york-city/) - Please join the KTA as we remember. Each year, the Museum of Jewish Heritage brings together thousands of New Yorkers at an Annual Gathering of Remembrance in observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). hosted at Congregation Emanu-El in New York City, the program will feature music, remarks from Holocaust survivors and descendants, and a
- [KTA Book Talk with writer Ann Hand and Austrian Again](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-with-writer-ann-hand-and-austrian-again/) - In this captivating memoir, Anne Hand embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover her family’s hidden history during the Holocaust while pursuing Austrian citizenship. As Austria opens the door to reparation citizenship for descendants of those victimized by the Nazi and Austrofascist regimes, Anne digs through fragments of family stories and documents to trace
- [And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal](https://kindertransport.org/events/and-thats-true-too-the-life-and-work-of-lore-segal/) - And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal presents a richly documented exploration of the life and literary legacy of Lore Segal (1928–2024). Born in Vienna, Segal survived Nazi persecution as a child when she escaped on one of the earliest Kindertransports to England. Her subsequent life—marked by displacement, reinvention, and a lifelong
- [](https://kindertransport.org/events/5118/) - My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports, the first film to share the Kindertransport story, chronicling the rescue of close to 10,000 children from Nazi-occupied Europe and the devastating separations that followed. In recording her Viennese-born mother's story, filmmaker Melissa Hacker reveals the isolation of the rescued children, and the way memories and fears were
- [KTA Allgenerations Social Chat](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-allgenerations-social-chat/) - KT2s Linda Waldroup and Susan Kohn invite Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s) and family to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This chat is open to all Kindertransport generations, KTA members and KT generations who are just now hearing about the KTA. Join the chat
- [KTA Book Talk with writer and KT2 Richard Aronowitz](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-with-writer-and-kt2-richard-aronowitz/) - Richard Aronowitz will speak to KTA members about two of his novels that include Kindertransport experiences and themes; "Five Amber Beads" published in 2006 and rereleased in 2025 and "An American Decade" published in 2017. Richard will also comment on his work in art restitution. If you are a KTA Member, you can find registration
- [Costume as Character: Celebrating the Legacy of Ruth Morley](https://kindertransport.org/events/costume-as-character-celebrating-the-legacy-of-ruth-morley/) - Costume designer Ruth Morley was behind the iconic looks of several characters now considered legendary in cinema history. A Kindertransport child refugee from Vienna, in the 1950’s she studied under German-American painter Hans Hofmann and went on to design costumes for opera and ballet before moving into theater, film and television. Her work can be
- [KTA All Generations Social Chat](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-all-generations-social-chat-4/) - KT2s Linda Waldroup and Susan Kohn invite Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s) and family to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This chat is open to all Kindertransport generations, KTA members and KT generations who are just now hearing about the KTA. Join the chat
- [From Vienna to Movies: Costume Designer Ruth Morley at 100, a birthday commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/from-vienna-to-movies-costume-designer-ruth-morley-at-100-a-birthday-commemoration/) - In this virtual event, the life and work of Costume Designer Ruth Morley will be discussed by her daughter Melissa Hacker and Susan Gammie, her assistant, protégé and close friend. Presented by our friends at the Fritz Ascher Society. Ruth Morley (1925-1991) fled her childhood home in Vienna on a Kindertransport, arrived in New York City as a
- [KTA Book Talk - Who Will Rescue Us with author Laura Hobson Faure](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-who-will-rescue-us-with-author-laura-hobson-faure/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome Professor Laura Hobson Faure who will speak about her new book Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust. Professor Hobson Faure tells an insightful and well detailed story of the lesser-known and less well documented plight of
- [Lessons from the Kindertransport: Looking Forward, not Back - San Francisco](https://kindertransport.org/events/lessons-from-the-kindertransport-looking-forward-not-back-san-francisco-jcc/) - The Kindertransports (German for “children’s transport”) were a rescue mission that brought close to ten thousand Jewish children to the United Kingdom in the nine months before the outbreak of World War II. The children were placed with foster families, in hostels, schools and farms. They were often the only members of their families to
- [KTA Social Chat: Share your Kindertransport family history writing](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-social-chat-share-your-kindertransport-family-history-writing/) - KT2s Linda Waldroup and Susan Kohn invite Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s), family and friends to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This chat is open to all, KTA members and KT generations who are just now hearing about the KTA. Join the chat and
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration in New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-in-new-york-city/) - Each year, we gather to commemorate World Kindertransport Day, December 2nd, the date that in 1938 the first Kindertransport arrived safely in the United Kingdom, carrying nearly 300 children from Germany. KTA members will gather in New York City and other locations throughout the USA. On December 7th, 2025 KTA members of all generations in
- [Kindertransport: rescuing Children on the Brink of War in Dallas, Texas](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-in-dallas-texas/) - The exhibition offers a moving look at the rescue effort, the painful choices parents made to send their children to safety, and the lives their children began in the United Kingdom. This exhibition serves as a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of honoring the legacy of those who
- [Kindertransport - Rescuing Children on the Brink of War Exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-exhibit-at-the-dallas-holocaust-and-human-rights-museum/) - Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War showcases the astonishing rescue effort that, in nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, stories, and firsthand testimony, those who lived through the "Kindertransport," German for "children's transport," tell its history. The exhibition offers a moving look
- [Ruth Morley and Lore Segal, Kindertransport Survivor Artists on Film Film Screening and Conversation with Director Melissa Hacker](https://kindertransport.org/events/ruth-morley-and-lore-segal-kindertransport-survivor-artists-on-film-film-screening-and-conversation-with-director-melissa-hacker/) - Join film director Melissa Hacker in conversation with Rachel 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 survivors as they retrace the journey they took 80 years earlier, as unaccompanied child refugees. The filmmaker
- [KTA Books and More Talk on zoom Amy Williams and Bill Niven](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-books-and-more-talk-on-zoom-amy-williams-and-bill-niven/) - Join us as we welcome Dr Amy Williams and Prof. Bill Niven for a talk on the recently discovered Kindertransport lists. Amy and Bill will discuss the historical as well as the emotional importance of their discovery, and how they aim to use this material in their up-and-coming book on the transnational history of the
- [Together in Welcome, HIAS month of Vigils](https://kindertransport.org/events/together-in-welcome-hias-moth-of-vigils/) - HIAS is creating “Together in Welcome” – a month of community vigils in cities and states across the country between June 6th and July 6th to reclaim our national commitment to welcome. Many Kindertransport survivors and their families were helped by HIAS, before, during, and after World War II, and we join with them today. We, our
- [KTA Books and More Talk in Honor of World Refugee Day: Irit Felsen](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-books-and-more-talk-in-honor-of-world-refugee-day-irit-felsen/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome Dr. Irit Felsen to speak with us. Irit Felsen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist specializing in trauma and traumatic loss, with a special focus on Holocaust survivors and their families. She is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. She will be speaking to us about intergenerational transmission of historical trauma. Irit Felsen was
- [KTA Books and More Talk, I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust with author Julian Borger .](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-books-and-more-talk-i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-with-author-julian-borger/) - Join us as Julian Borger discusses his newly published book, I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust. This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who fled the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents. In 1938, Jewish families are
- [The Kindertransport Journey Exhibit at the Sumter Museum](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-journey-exhibit-at-the-sumter-museum/) - Kindertransport Survivor Robert Sugar created a series of exhibition panels that trace the Kindertransport children’s’ epic journey from 1938 into the 21st century. Robert Sugar, who fled Vienna aged six, spent the war years on the Millisle Refugee Settlement Farm in Northern Ireland, and felt that the daily life of this Jewish refugee farming community,
- [Kindertransport History Bench](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-history-bench/) - The KTA is thrilled to launch our first Kindertransport History Bench, installed on the grounds of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove, NY. The Kindertransport History Benches offer visitors a space to reflect, rest, and engage with history. Each bench includes a QR code that links to video testimonies from Kindertransport survivors,
- [Kindertalk: Manny Lindenbaum, From Nazi Germany to the White House](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertalk-manny-lindenbaum-from-nazi-germany-to-the-white-house/) - Join us to hear an uplifting and inspiring KinderTalk from Manny Lindenbaum. Manny, always ebullient, will share his unusual Kindertransport experience from being an unwanted refugee on the German-Polish border to an honored guest lighting Hanukkah candles at the Obama White House. Manfred (Manny) Lindenbaum was seven when he and his older brother Siegfried escaped
- [World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/worl-fedration-of-jewish-holocaust-survivors-and-descendants-conference/) - Since 2016, the Kindertransport Association joins with the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants for annual conferences. The KTA invites all Kinder and descendants to join us! The WFJHS&D 35th Annual Conference will take place Sept. 12-15, 2025, in Paris, France, with the theme: 1945-2025: 80 Years Later, Bridging Generations Across Borders This important
- [KTA All Generations Social Chat, open to all KT Generations](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-all-generations-social-chat-open-to-all-kt-generations/) - This special KTA Social Chat is open to all Kindertransport generations, KTA members and KT generations who are not yet KTA members. Join the chat and learn more! KT2s Linda Waldroup and Susan Kohn invite Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s), great grandchildren of Kinder (KT4s)nieces, nephews and
- [Exhibition: Saved for a time: Kindertransports to Belgium 1938/39](https://kindertransport.org/events/exhibition-saved-for-a-time-kindertransports-to-belgium-1938-39/) - “Saved for a time: Kindertransports to Belgium 1938/39 ” March 13-26, 2025 Opening reception Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:30 p.m., in the representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the federal government, Hiroshimastraße 12-16, 10785 Berlin KTA member, KT2 Susan Sanders, a descendant of one of the rescued children, will be speaking at the opening.
- [World Refugee Day](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-refugee-day/) - World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. As child refugees and the children, grandchildren, and
- [KTA All Generations Social Chat](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-all-generations-social-chat-3/) - KT2s Linda Waldroup and Susan Kohn invite Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s), family and friends to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This will be an opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, and discuss contemporary issues. This
- [KTA Books and More Talk, Pillar of Salt and In My Father’s Words.](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-books-and-more-talk-pillar-of-salt-and-in-my-fathers-words/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome Anna Salton Eisen (2G) who will share her journey to uncover her family’s incredible Holocaust past. Her father survived ten concentration camps. Her mother bravely rescued Jewish children. Anna will be joined by her son Aaron (3G) to discuss their coauthoring of the book Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s
- [KTA Books and More Talk with Laura Nathan](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-books-and-more-talk-with-laura-nathan/) - Laura Nathan is a contemporary textile artist based in Manchester, England who works with archives, inherited objects, and symbolic materials. Being the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors has shaped who she is, and she focuses on how we uncover, process and share difficult histories. In 2023 Laura was awarded Arts Council England funding for her project
- [Lore Segal Exhibit in Vienna](https://kindertransport.org/events/lore-segal-exhibit-in-vienna/) - “I wanted to love Vienna, but I didn’t dare to:” An exhibition on the life and work of Lore Segal This KTA-supported exhibition in a local history museum in Vienna centers on writer Lore Segal, who grew up in the district of Josefstadt for the first 10 years of her life. She escaped Austria on
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-new-york-city/) - 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
- [Stories of Survival: Melissa Hacker on the Legacy of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/stories-of-survival-melissa-hacker-on-the-legacy-of-the-kindertransport/) - Classrooms Without Borders and Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh PA invite you to join us for an insightful evening with Melissa Hacker as she delves into the legacy of the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that saved thousands of Jewish children from Nazi persecution. Through personal stories and historical reflections, Melissa will explore the profound impact of
- [KTA Book Talk Summons to Berlin](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-summons-to-berlin/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome Joanne Intrator to speak about her inspiring memoir, Summons to Berlin – Nazi Theft and a Daughter’s Quest for Justice. On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator’s father poses two unsettling questions: “Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?” Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to
- [KTA Book Talk Hollywood’s Spies](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-hollywoods-spies/) - How did American Jews respond to the rise of Nazism in the United States during the 1930s? For decades, historians studied the issue, and concluded that American Jews, and in particular, the Jews of Hollywood, lacked the political will and leadership to defend their interests. Recently, however, new documents have emerged that correct that conclusion.
- [KTA Speaker Training Course Fall 2024](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-speaker-training-course-fall2024/) - The KTA is building our Speakers Bureau! If you have received confirmation that you have been accepted into the Fall 2024 Speaker Training Session, please register here
- [Commemorating the 85th Year of the Kindertransports - San Francisco](https://kindertransport.org/events/commemorating-th-85th-year-of-the-kindertransports-san-francisco/) - It has become more important than ever to find meaningful ways to commemorate and educate about the Holocaust. A still too-little-known Holocaust story is the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that brought ten thousand Jewish children to the United Kingdom in the nine months before the outbreak of World War II. Kindertransport survivor Ralph Samuel and
- ["We Were the Lucky Ones" The Psychology of Child Survivors with the Sousa Mendes Foundation](https://kindertransport.org/events/we-were-the-lucky-ones-the-psychology-of-child-survivors-with-the-sousa-mendes-foundation/) - “We were the lucky ones” — The Psychology of Child Survivors, hosted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation. KTA Executive Director Melissa Hacker, whose mother was a Kindertransport child from Vienna, and KTA member Rachel Dahill-Fuchel, whose father, Kurt Fuchel was a Kind from Vienna and a past President of the KTA, will participate in a
- [KTA All Generations Social talk](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-all-generations-social-talk/) - The KTA hosts an informal chat session for all generations Kindertransport. We'll have time together to say hello in the big zoom room, then break into smaller rooms to connect, discuss and share, and to meet with both longtime and brand new KTA members. This is a safe and private space, what is shared in
- [KTA Book Talk - Max in the House of Spies](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-max-in-the-house-of-spies/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome Adam Gidwitz to speak about his book Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II. Author Adam Gidwitz grew up with a family friend who fled Germany on a Kindertransport, and now, the best-selling author has written a wonderful book for readers young (8-12) and
- [2024 World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/2024-world-federation-of-jewish-holocaust-survivors-and-descendants-conference/) - The World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants (WFJHS&D) 2024 Annual Conference will be held September 20-23, 2024 in Toronto, Canada. The Kindertransport Association (KTA) will join the conference once again as will members of Generations of the Shoah International (GSI). Registration is open, available both online and by mail, April 3 – September
- [1990 1st National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/1990-1st-national-kta-reunion/) - The Fallsview Hotel, Ellenville NY (The Catskills), New York
- [1991 Tri-State KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/1991-national-kta-reunion/) - A day long gathering in downtown New York City.
- [Kindertransport Memorial Stone unveiling](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-memorial-stone-unveiling/) - The Holocaust Memorial Park is a public memorial park located at the water's edge between Emmons Avenue and Shore Boulevard in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. The Memorial Park is the only public Holocaust memorial park in New York City. The park, established in 1985 by Mayor Edward Koch, and taken care of by The Holocaust Memorial
- [Letters from Brno airs on PBS WORLD Channel in May for Jewish American Heritage Month](https://kindertransport.org/events/letters-from-brno-airs-on-pbs-world-channel-in-may-for-jewish-american-heritage-month/) - Letters from Brno, a film produced by KTA Board member Karen Kruger, will air on Public Television’s digital WORLD Channel May 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 27 and 28 to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month. Letters from Brno tells the powerful story of parental love and sacrifice during the Holocaust.
- [Yom HaShoah Commemoration webinar](https://kindertransport.org/events/yom-hashoah-commemoration-webinar/) - Please commemorate Yom HaShoah with us by registering to attend The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI) webinar, in partnership with the Kindertransport Association, the NY Board of Rabbis, and 3G New York. This virtual program will focus on the rescue efforts of Sir Nicholas Winton, the British businessman who brought
- [KTA 85th Year Commemorative Trip](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-85th-year-commemorative-trip/) - On Sunday May 12, 2024 (Mother’s Day holiday in the USA), Kindertransport survivor families, ages 92 years to six months, will meet in London. They’ve traveled from across the United States; from California and Washington State, New York, and Florida, with North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire all represented. They
- [My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports film screening in London](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports-film-screening-in-london/) - Kindertransport survivors, KT2s , KT3s, KT4s, all generations are invited to join the Association of Jewish Refugees for a Kinder Lunch, film screening, and discussion with Director Melissa Hacker, Executive Director of the KTA. Short-listed for Academy Award nomination and screened at film festivals throughout the world, My Knees Were Jumping tells the story of
- [KTA visit to the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, Glen Cove, LI](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-visit-to-the-holocaust-memorial-and-tolerance-center-glen-cove-li/) - The KTA is planning a visit to the Nassau County Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center (HMTC) in Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y. There we will view a special Kindertransport Exhibit including the Kindertransport Journey, Memory into History Panels and Kinder artifacts curated by KTA Executive Director Melissa Hacker with the assistance of KT2 Renée Kornfeld
- [KTA Books and More Talk](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-books-and-more-talk/) - The KTA is delighted to announce that Susan Woodland, who is a consulting archivist, will be joining KTA members for a talk about archiving. Many of us have boxes of precious family documents and artifacts, let's learn how best to care for them.
- [One Life film in Huntington, LI - with speakers](https://kindertransport.org/events/one-life-film-in-huntington-li-with-speakers/) - One Life, the film that tells the story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransports from Czechoslovakia, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and based on the book by Barbara Winton, opens in movie houses across the United States! At this special screening, KTA Board member Peter Suchmann will introduce Kindertransport Survivor Manny Korman, who will speak
- [KTA talk in Brooklyn, NY](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-talk-in-brooklyn-ny/) - The KTA is working together with the Holocaust Committee to place a Kindertransport Memorial in the Holocaust Memorial Park in Brooklyn, and we will be speaking at their post-Purim Brunch. Join us to learn about the KTA and new Kindertransport research with KTA Executive Director Melissa Hacker and Kindertransport Historian Amy Williams. Manhattan Beach Jewish
- [One Life opens across the USA](https://kindertransport.org/events/one-life-opens-across-the-usa/) - One Life, the film that tells the story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransports from Czechoslovakia, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and based on the book by Barbara Winton, opens in movie houses across the United States!
- [Letters from Brno Film Screening in London](https://kindertransport.org/events/letters-from-brno-film-screening-in-london/) - Letters From Brno, an award-winning documentary, tells a powerful personal story of parental love and sacrifice during the Holocaust. In a 45-year search for clues to her mother's past, Karen Kruger uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents from the eyewitness accounts of their letters written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. The screening of
- [Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War Exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-exhibit-at-the-illinois-holocaust-museum/) - Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War showcases the astonishing rescue effort that, in only nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied Jewish children from Nazi-occupied mainland Europe to the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, stories, and firsthand testimony, those who lived through the Kindertransport program tell its history. Arranged in eight sections, the exhibition begins
- [Letters from Brno Film Screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/letters-from-brno-film-screening/) - This International Holocaust Remembrance Day join the Virginia Holocaust Museum for the free screening of Letters from Brno, a film directed by KTA Board Member Karen Kruger. Letters from Brno tells the powerful, personal story of love and sacrifice during the Holocaust. In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, daughter, Karen Kruger
- [Kinder Talk: Ruth Zimbler's Fascinating Family Journey](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-the-kindertransport-what-really-happened/) - Ruth Zimbler, now 95 years young, was born in Vienna where her father was a leader of the Jewish community. She was only 10 years old, and her brother Walter was 6 years old, when they experienced the Anschluss and then, on Kristallnacht, when they witnessed the destruction of the largest synagogue in Vienna from
- [Remembering the Kindertransports Film Screening and Discussion at the Goethe Institute, Glasgow](https://kindertransport.org/events/remembering-the-kindertransports-film-screening-and-discussion-at-the-goethe-institute-glasgow/) - Join us for a film screening of the documentaries My Knees Were Jumping - Remembering the Kindertransports and 256,000 Miles From Home by Melissa Hacker. Followed by a discussion with filmmaker and Kindertransport Association Executive Director Melissa Hacker and 2g writer and activist Esther Dischereit. In the nine months just prior to World War II nearly 10,000
- [One Life film at the New York Jewish Film Festival](https://kindertransport.org/events/one-life-film-at-the-new-york-jewish-film-festival/) - In this vivid and stirring historical drama, based on true events, two-time Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins gives an intensely moving performance as Sir Nicholas Winton, a humble, mild-mannered British stockbroker who during World War II helped Jewish refugee children escape to safety from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. In the 1980s, suddenly forced to recall the
- [Representing the Kindertransport, screening and discussion at the Goethe Institute, London](https://kindertransport.org/events/representing-the-kindertransport-screening-and-discussion-at-the-goethe-institute-london/) - Commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January and the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport, we invite you to a film screening and discussion to reflect on how the transports have been remembered through exhibitions, film, literature and in different national and transnational contexts. Following the presentation of the films My Knees Were Jumping and 256,000
- [Zoom Reading and Talk with Author Lilly Maier hosted by 3G Philadelphia and 3G New York](https://kindertransport.org/events/zoom-reading-and-talk-with-author-lilly-maier-hosted-by-3g-phily-and-3g-new-yor/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest at the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives. Lilly
- [KTA Hanukkah gathering on zoom](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-hanukkah-gathering-on-zoom/) - KTA members from across the USA and around the world gather together to light menorahs and sing.
- [Zoom reading “Arthur and Lilly” hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage](https://kindertransport.org/events/zoom-reading-arthur-and-lilly-hosted-by-the-museum-of-jewish-heritage/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest at the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives. Lilly
- [Book Reading “Arthur and Lilly” ](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-reading-arthur-and-lilly-4/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest at the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives. Lilly
- [Book reading “Arthur and Lilly” and discussion with Lilly Maier and Carol Strauss at Deutches Haus, New York](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-reading-arthur-and-lilly-and-discussion-with-lilly-maier-and-carol-strauss-at-deutches-haus-new-york/) - Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a presentation and reading from “Lilly and Arthur: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor" by the author Lilly Maier, followed by a conversation between the Lilly Maier and Carol Strauss, the former Executive Director of the Leo Baeck Institute. Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest at the KTA on several occasions, will present her
- [Commemorating 85 Years Since The First Kindertransport, Dec. 1938 with Lilly Maier](https://kindertransport.org/events/commemorating-85-years-since-the-first-kindertransport-dec-1938-with-lilly-maier/) - The Toronto Chapter of March of the Living is hosting a zoom event to commemorate 85 years since the first Kindertransport. Featuring the premiere of International March of the Living Film, “If We Never See Each Other Again”, with survivor testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation. Remarks by Lilly Maier, Historian and Author, discussing her newly published
- [KTA Book Talk Andrea Hammel, The Kindertransport: what really happened](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-andrea-hammel-the-kindertransport-what-really-happened/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome longtime friend Andrea Hammel to discuss her new book, The Kindertransport: What Really Happened. In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but
- [KTA Annual Membership Meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-annual-membership-meeting/) - KTA Members gather together virtually to ask questions of the KTA Board, learn more about what has been going on in the past year and what is being planned for the next, and to elect new members to the KTA Board.
- [KTA World Kindertransport Day Membership Gathering in NYC](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-world-kindertransport-day-membership-gathering-in-nyc/) - On December 2nd, 1938, the first Kindertransport from Germany arrived safely in Harwich, England. On December 3rd, 2023 KTA members of all generations in the tri-state, greater New York City area will gather together to remember, to meet with friends old and new, enjoy a meal, and listen to music and a special guest speaker.
- [Screening and discussion of film My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/events/screening-and-discussion-of-film-my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports/) - Join KTA Executive Director Melissa Hacker for a screening, in commemoration of the 85th year of the Kindertransports, of her film, My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports. The first documentary film to tell the story of the Kindertransports, a rescue movement that, in the nine months prior to World War II, saved the lives
- [Book talk: Andrea Hammel, The Kindertransport: what really happened](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-talk-andrea-hammel-the-kindertransport-what-really-happened/) - Join The Wiener Holocaust Library in London to mark the publication of Andrea Hammel’s important new book on the Kindertransport child rescue scheme, based on extensive new research. The first train of the Kindertransport 1938/39 arrived in the UK almost exactly 85 years ago. The scheme has long been celebrated as a British humanitarian success
- [Book Reading “Arthur and Lilly”](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-reading-arthur-and-lilly-3/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest at the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives. Lilly
- [Book Reading “Arthur and Lilly” at the LA Holocaust Museum](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-reading-arthur-and-lilly-at-the-la-holocaust-museum/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest at the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives. Lilly
- [Book reading “Arthur and Lilly”](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-reading-arthur-and-lilly-2/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest speaker with the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives.
- [Screening: DETERMINED The Story of Holocaust Survivor Avraham Perlmutter](https://kindertransport.org/events/screening-determined-the-story-of-holocaust-survivor-avraham-perlmutter/) - Avraham is just ten years old when his life changes forever. After Nazis arrive in his hometown of Vienna, Austria, his parents send him away to the Netherlands. But the invading German army soon follows. During the ensuing war-torn years, Avraham evades capture, makes daring escapes and endures torturous hiding and heartbreaking losses. Yet he
- [KTA Book Talk Ariana Neumann When Time Stopped](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-ariana-neumann-when-time-stopped/) - The KTA is delighted to welcome Ariana Neumann speaking on her remarkable book, When Time Stopped, A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains. 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
- [Hybrid Book reading “Arthur and Lilly”](https://kindertransport.org/events/hybrid-book-reading-arthur-and-lilly/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest speaker with the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their lives.
- [Book reading “Arthur and Lilly”](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-reading-arthur-and-lilly/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest speaker with the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their
- [Arthur and Lilly Book reading](https://kindertransport.org/events/arthur-and-lilly-book-reading/) - Young Historian Lilly Maier, who has been a guest speaker with the KTA on several occasions, will present her newly published English edition of her book Arthur and Lilly. The Girl and the Holocaust-Survivor. The book is a biography of Kind Arthur Kern, and also tells the story of how their friendship affected both of their
- [The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History Exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-journey-memory-into-history-exhibit-at-the-holocaust-memorial-and-tolerance-center-of-nassau-county/) - Kindertransport Survivor Robert Sugar has created a series of exhibition panels that trace these children’s’ epic journey from 1938 into the 21st century. Robert Sugar, who fled Vienna aged six, spent the war years on the Millisle Refugee Settlement Farm in Northern Ireland, and felt that the daily life of this Jewish refugee farming community,
- [KTA All-Generations Social Chat](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-all-generations-social-chat-2/) - The KTA hosts an informal chat session for all generations Kindertransport. We’ll have some time together on zoom, then break into smaller rooms to talk about subjects of interest. You will have the opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, and share thoughts about contemporary issues. This will
- [Kinder Talk: Manny Korman's Fascinating Family Journey](https://kindertransport.org/events/kinder-talk-manny-kormans-fascinating-family-journey/) - KTA members are invited to hear Manny Korman speak about his family's survival in the inaugural "Kinder Talk," Please join us as we hear Manny describe his family's deportation to the Polish border before Kristallnacht, their life in "no man's land" on the Polish-German border, his father's trip on the infamous ship, the St. Louis
- [KTA Book Talk: The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-the-last-letter-a-fathers-struggle-a-daughters-quest-and-the-long-shadow-of-the-holocaust/) - Karen Baum Gordon joins us to discuss her book, The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust, a story that focuses on the life of her father, Rudolf (Rudy) Baum, a Holocaust survivor whose thwarted efforts to save his parents had multigenerational effects. A crisis involving her
- [Letters From Brno Screenings in the Czech Republic at Stetl Fest](https://kindertransport.org/events/letters-from-brno-screenings-in-the-czech-republic-at-stetl-fest/) - ŠTETL FEST is a multi-genre festival that gives a glimpse into Jewish culture and history under the subheading "Dignity in Diversity". The programme, consisting of lectures, concerts, theatrical shows and appearances by personalities of Judaism and stars of Jewish culture, aims to contribute to the understanding and openness of the Jewish community not only in Central Europe.
- [KTA All-Generations Social Chat](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-all-generations-social-chat/) - The KTA hosts an informal chat session for all generations Kindertransport. We’ll have some time together, then break into smaller rooms to talk about subjects of interest. You will have the opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, and share thoughts about contemporary issues. This will also be
- [KTA Open Mic Poetry and Prose reading on Holocaust and Kindertransport generation themes](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-open-mic-poetry-and-prose-reading-on-holocaust-and-kindertransport-generation-and-family-themes/) - The KTA hosts an interactive reading session. Stewart Florsheim will be a guest speaker. A poet, he will read from his Ghosts of the Holocaust: an anthology of Poetry by the Second Generation. Stewart was born in New York City, the son of a Holocaust survivor and a refugee from Hitler's Germany. He has been
- [Screening of Dreyfus Drei and Discussion with Director Ella Dreyfus](https://kindertransport.org/events/screening-of-dreyfus-drei-and-discussion-with-director-ella-dreyfus/) - The KTA is thrilled to announce a special private screening and discussion with the director, artist and KT2 Ella Dreyfus, and her film, Dreyfus Drei, a short film about family, identity, and the return of three generations of Jewish artists from Australia to Germany. This is a rare opportunity to learn about the Kindertransport children sent to
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants, KTA, GSI Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-descendants-kta-gsi-conference/) - The World Federation of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D) will hold a 33rd Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., August 25-28, 2023, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The Kindertransport Association will join the conference once again as will members of Generations of the Shoah International (GSI). In three days, a remarkable community of
- [Kindertransport - The Search for British Foster Families](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-the-search-for-british-foster-families/) - Kindertransport - The Search for British Foster Families Just before the Second World War, British families from all over the country took in over 9,000 Jewish children into their homes, hostels, farms and schools. Little is known about the families and individuals who opened their doors to Kinder. A new project has been launched to
- [Screening of Letters From Brno and Discussion with Producer and Writer Karen Kruger](https://kindertransport.org/events/screening-of-letters-from-brno-and-discussion-with-director-karen-kruger/) - The KTA is thrilled to announce a special private screening and discussion of KTA Board Member Karen Kruger's new film Letters From Brno. Letters From Brno is a powerful personal story of parental love and unspeakable tragedy. In December 1976, on a college break, Karen learned that her mother, Erika Stefanie Turkl (Neumann) was Jewish. This discovery marked the beginning
- [World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration - Featuring Kindertransportee Joel Darmstadter](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-on-the-move-250000-years-of-human-migration-featuring-kindertransportee-joel-darmstadter/) - The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce fifteen libraries selected to host the traveling exhibition World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration, developed by the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The 15 public libraries will host the exhibit for a five-or six-week period from
- [Kindertransport by Diane Samuels at Nassau Community College](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-by-diane-samuels-at-nassau-community-college/) - Nassau Community College Theatre and Dance Department Presents Kindertransport, a play by Diane Samuels. Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 pm Saturday, March 25 at 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 pm Friday, March 31 at 7:30 pm Sunday, April 2 matinee at 2:00 pm *At this performance, two Kindertransport Survivors will be speaking, courtesy
- [The Kindertransports: The KTA, the 80th Year Commemorative Journey, and New Research](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransports-the-kta-the-80th-year-commemorative-journey-and-new-research/) - Speakers: Melissa Hacker, Amy Williams, and Wendy Henry From December 1st, 1938, through September 1st, 1939, nearly 10,000 mostly 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
- [Lore Segal and Uri Berliner in Conversation](https://kindertransport.org/events/lore-segal-and-uri-berliner-in-conversation/) - KTA member, Kindertransport survivor, writer, delightful human Lore Segal in conversation with KT2 Uri Berliner (a double KT2! his mother went from Vienna to the UK, his father to Sweden) will be together on zoom Jan 31, 2pm EST A virtual event hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute, NYC To register for this free virtual
- [KTA KT2 Social Chat](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-kt2-social-chat/) - The KTA hosts an informal chat session for the Second Generation (KT2). We’ll have some time together, then break into smaller rooms to talk about subjects of interest. You will have the opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, and share thoughts about contemporary issues. This will also
- [KTA Poetry and Prose Open Mic in commemoration of National Poetry Month and Yom Hashoah](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-poetry-and-prose-open-mic-in-commemoration-of-national-poetry-month-and-yom-hashoah/) - In commemoration of National Poetry Month and Yom Hashoah, the KTA invites all generations to share your Holocaust themed poems and prose in an "open-mic" zoom gathering at 2:00 EST, 11:00 PST, on Sunday, April 23. Also featured will be Stewart Florsheim, poet, who will read from his "Ghosts of the Holocaust: an anthology of
- [KTA World Kindertransport Day Membership Gathering in person in NYC](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-world-kindertransport-day-membership-gathering-in-person-in-nyc/) - On December 2nd, 1938, the first Kindertransport from Germany arrived safely in Harwich, England. On December 4th, 2022 KTA members of all generations in the tri-state, greater New York City area will gather together to remember, to meet with friends old and new, enjoy a meal, and listen to music and a special guest. Together
- [The Claims Conference hosts International Holocaust Survivors Night 2022](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-claims-conference-hosts-international-holocaust-survivors-night-2022/) - They are excited to invite you to the annual International Holocaust Survivors Night. This year's virtual event focuses on the theme of hope in the face of rising antisemitism. Remarks will be heard from dignitaries including Isaac Herzog, President of Israel; Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany; Christian Lindner, German Minister of Finance; Amb. Stuart Eizenstat, Special Adviser on
- [Chanukah Memories and Melodies](https://kindertransport.org/events/chanukah-memories-and-melodies/) - In this Chanukah special, produced by KT2 Miriam Lewin, WQXR brings you interviews with artists and public personalities about their Chanukah memories grounded in the music tied to their holiday memories. Join us for an hour of humorous, poignant, and stimulating memories and music. Guests on this program will include Broadway actress Tovah Feldshuh (who has
- [KTA Book Talk: The School that Escaped the Nazis, with author Deborah Cadbury](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis-with-author-deborah-cadbury/) - The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler Deborah Cadbury speaks about her new book, The School that Escaped the Nazis, the extraordinary true story of German Jewish educator Anna Essinger, who founded a boarding school in Germany. In 1933, with the Nazi threat looming and the permission
- [KTA Online Social Chat for KT2s](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-all-generations-4/) - The KTA hosts an informal chat session for the Second Generation. We'll have some time together, then break into smaller rooms to talk about subjects of interest. You will have the opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, and share thoughts about contemporary issues. This will also be
- [KTA Membership Meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-membership-meeting/) - KTA Members gather together virtually to ask questions of the KTA Board, learn more what’s been going on in the past year and what is being planned, and elect new members to the 2023 KTA Board.
- [Finding Refuge: Stories of those who fled to Wales to escape the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/events/finding-refuge-stories-of-those-who-fled-to-wales-to-escape-the-nazis/) - Professor Andrea Hammel, historian of the Kindertransport and longtime friend and member of the KTA speaks on her new book Finding Refuge: Stories of the men, women and children who fled to Wales to escape the Nazis The volume features the accounts of a variety of people who found refuge in Wales in the 1930s
- [KTA World Kindertransport Day Membership Gathering Online](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-world-kindertransport-day-membership-gathering-online/) - On December 2nd, 1938, the first Kindertransport from Germany arrived safely in Harwich, England. In 2012, KT2 David Meyerhoff coined the term “World Kindertransport Day” to commemorate the day the first Kindertransport from Germany arrived safely in the UK. Since then, KTA chapters have held annual gatherings, either on December 2nd, or on the closest
- [Esther Starobin, Kindertransport Survivor and USHMM Volunteer Speaks](https://kindertransport.org/events/esther-starobin-kindertransport-survivor-and-ushmm-volunteer-speaks/) - Adoption Month: From Strangers to Family A notice on the shoe factory’s bulletin board prompted the British couple to volunteer. They knew little; a Jewish child fleeing Nazi Germany needed a safe home. What began as a good deed blossomed into bonds that lasted a lifetime. When Harry and Dot Harrison greeted two-year-old Esther on
- [For the Child – The Story of the Kindertransport Exhibit in Ottawa, Canada](https://kindertransport.org/events/for-the-child-the-story-of-the-kindertransport-exhibit-in-ottawa-canada/) - For the Child – The Story of the Kindertransport Ottawa City Hall, Hosted in Cooperation with the Embassy of Austria and the British High Commissioner under the Auspices of Mayor Watson The “For the Child” photographic exhibition tells the story of the organized rescue transport of Jewish children to Great Britain in 1938-1939. This bilingual exhibit will offer an
- [KTA Book Talk: Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook](https://kindertransport.org/events/3936/) - Alice Urbach was a Jewish Viennese chef and cookbook author who fled Vienna to England after the Nazi annexation. During WWII, Alice was the matron for 20 girls living in the Windermere Kindertransport Hostel. Years later, Alice's granddaughter, historian Karina Urbach, wrote Alice’s Book about Alice and her quest to get back the authorship credit for
- [Always Remember - Margot's Journey Book signing](https://kindertransport.org/events/always-remember-margots-journey-book-signing/) - Always Remember: A booksigning and fundraising event for the benefit of the Kindertransport Association You are invited to join Patricia Carey for a signing of her book 'Margot's Journey' a first-person account of Margot Jungermann Hanau's escape as a young girl, together with her brother and thousands of other children, out of Nazi Germany to
- [KTA Online Social Chat for KT2s](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-kt2s-3/) - The KTA invites KTA members of the Second Generation (KT2s) to an informal virtual chat session on zoom. The KT2 Virtual Gathering gives us a chance to get to know other KT2s, connect with old acquaintances, meet new mispoche, and socialize online. In the past, we attended biennial KTA conferences that offered us a chance
- [KTA Book talk: The Island of Extraordinary Captives, A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-book-talk-the-island-of-extraordinary-captives-a-painter-a-poet-an-heiress-and-a-spy-in-a-world-war-ii-british-internment-camp/) - In May 1940, faced with a country gripped by paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German and Austrian citizens living in Britain. Most were refugees who had come to the country to escape Nazi oppression. In May 1940, faced with a country gripped by paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the
- [KTA Online Social Chat For All Generations](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-all-generations-3/) - All Generations, Kinder, KT2, KT3, Virtual Gathering The KTA invites all KTA member Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s) and family to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This is an opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, or
- [NO LONGER UNIMAGINABLE: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/events/no-longer-unimaginable-a-conversation-with-holocaust-survivors/) - In connection with the premiere of the PBS series on America and the Holocaust, KTA board member Kindertransportee Ilse Melamid speaks on a panel: NO LONGER UNIMAGINABLE: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivors What can people who confronted and survived inhumanity teach us about imagining the unimaginable – so that we might identify its evolving sound
- [KTA Online Social Chat for KT2s](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-kt2s-2/) - The KTA invites KTA members of the Second Generation (KT2s) to an informal virtual chat session on zoom. The KT2 Virtual Gathering gives us a chance to get to know other KT2s, connect with old acquaintances, meet new mispoche, and socialize online. In the past, we attended biennial KTA conferences that offered us a chance
- [KTA Online Social Chat for All Generations](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-all-generations-2/) - All Generations, Kinder, KT2, KT3, Virtual Gathering The KTA invites all KTA member Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s) and family to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This is an opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing, or
- [Virtual Screening of “Becoming Dr. Ruth”](https://kindertransport.org/events/virtual-screening-of-becoming-dr-ruth/) - In celebration of beloved psychologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s 94th birthday this June, the Museum presents a special virtual broadcast of the one-woman Off-Broadway show Becoming Dr. Ruth. Becoming Dr. Ruth chronicles the life of noted psychologist, Kindertransport Survivor and KTA member Dr. Ruth Westheimer, from her early years fleeing Nazi Germany via Kindertransport to Switzerland, to
- [Stories Survive: Erika Estis](https://kindertransport.org/events/stories-survive-erika-estis/) - Kindertransport Survivor and longtime KTA member Erika Estis speaks, virtually, online, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City. Erika Estisat the was born to Jewish parents Paul Freundlich, a pharmacist, and Irma Beith Freundlich on November 14, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1935, with the passage of the Nuremberg Laws, Erika’s father was
- [Dr. Ruth Westheimer Birthday Celebration!](https://kindertransport.org/events/dr-ruth-westheimer-birthday-celebration/) - Meet Dr. Ruth Westheimer and join her 94th birthday celebration! Born as Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928, in Frankfurt, Germany, she grew up as the only child in a privileged Orthodox Jewish family. However, her carefree childhood was shattered in 1938 when the SS arrested her father. She was soon sent on a
- [Lore Segal Speaks with the Leo Baeck Institute Book Club](https://kindertransport.org/events/lore-segal-speaks-with-the-leo-baeck-institute-book-club/) - Kindertransport survivor and longtime KTA member, the brilliant and delightful writer Lore Segal is speaking with the Leo Baeck Institute book club on April 27, join her virtually. To register, click here From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for “a voice unlike any other” (Cynthia Ozick) and a
- [The Kehillah of Old York Road Commemorates Yom HaShoah:  In Her Own Words](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kehillah-of-old-york-road-commemorates-yom-hashoah-in-her-own-words/) - KTA Member, KT2 David Bader, and his mother, Kindertransport Survivor Sophie Rosenbaum speak in commemoration of Yom HaShoah. Honor the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust this Yom Hashoah by hearing Sophie Rosenbaum’s incredible story of escape by the Vienna Kindertransport. Learn about Sophie’s journey through her own words as well as her
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-descendants-conference/) - The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D)32nd Annual Conference, St. Louis, MI November 4-November 7, 2022. This conference was postponed from the original dates in fall 2020. After this break, the WF Conferences will continue to bring together the community of generations of Child Holocaust Survivors. The Kindertransport Association
- [The Kindertransport in Museums - A KTA Online Books and More Talk](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-in-museums-a-kta-books-and-more-talk/) - The KTA is delighted to present a talk on the Kindertransport in museums with Dr. Amy Williams. Amy’s January 16, 2022 KTA talk on Holocaust and Kindertransport Memorials was so well received that we are bringing Amy back for part two, together with a graduate student. Historian and writer Amy Williams is a recently minted
- [Online Special Event for Kindertransport Generations in the USA and the UK](https://kindertransport.org/events/online-special-event-for-kindertransport-generations-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/) - KTA members of all Kindertransport Survivor generations: Kinder and KT2s, KT3s and KT4s, are invited to join the KTA and the Association for Jewish Refugees (AJR) Kindertransport generations in the UK for a co-hosted special event. Let's get to know each other and build international community! We will break up into small groups and talk
- [KTA Online Social Chat for All Generations](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-all-generations/) - All Generations, Kinder, KT2, KT3, Virtual Gathering The KTA invites all KTA member Kinder and the next generations: children of Kinder (KT2s), grandchildren of Kinder (KT3s) and family to join in our KTA All-Generations Gathering on Zoom. This will be an opportunity to talk about matters on your mind, share what you have been doing,
- [KTA Online Social Chat for KT2s](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-social-chat-for-kt2s/) - The KTA invites KTA members of the Second Generation (KT2s) to an informal virtual chat session on zoom. The KT2 Virtual Gathering is a chat creating a Second Generation Kindertransport forum, giving us a chance to get to know other KT2s, connect with old acquaintances, meet new mispoche, and socialize online. In the past, we
- [ROK 50th Anniversary Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/rok-50th-anniversary-reunion/) - Kind Romie Gumpel speaking with Nicholas Winton, who organized Kindertransports from the Czech Republic. This first international Kindertransport reunion was organized by Bertha Leverton and took place in London. Over 1,000 Kinder and their families attended.
- [2000 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/2000-national-kta-reunion/) - Bert Herzog, Kind, with granddaughter Mona Bruner and two great-grandaughters. Scottsdale, Arizona
- [2004 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/2004-national-kta-reunion/) - Senator Tom Lantos speaking at the KTA reunion. Learning from the Past – Teaching for the Future Burlingame, California
- [2008 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/2008-national-kta-reunion/) - Kind Lisl Schick and her granddaughters in Orlando. Orlando, Florida Remember - the past Reflect - on the present Reach - for a better future
- [ROK 70th anniversary Kindertransport Celebration](https://kindertransport.org/events/rok-70th-anniversary-kindertransport-celebration/) - The Kindertransport committee of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) has organised a Celebration to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Parliament's decision to admit 10,000, mainly Jewish, children as refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. Nearly 600 Kinder and their families attended.
- [The Kindertransport Journey in Tucson, AZ](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-journey-in-tucson-az/) - The KTA exhibit, the Kindertransport Journey, will be exhibited at the Jewish History Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
- [Winton Train - Inspiration by Goodness](https://kindertransport.org/events/winton-train-inspiration-by-goodness/) - Winton Train - Inspiration by Goodness The Winton Train which will travel the original route from Prague to London travelled by the 669 Czech children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton. Descendants of children rescued by Winton, as well as young people and the winners of student contests, will be aboard the period carriages pulled by
- [Kindertransport Audio Visual Exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-audio-visual-exhibit/) - Audio-visual Pop up sculpture on the Kindertransport by Ralph Koltai, CBE, set designer, artist and Kindertransport survivor, is on view at the BFI Southbank atrium, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
- [Kindertransport Sculpture exhibit opens in Los Angeles](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-sculpture-exhibit-opens-in-los-angeles/) - Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Sculpture Exhibition: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransports Former hidden child and artist Gabriella Karin found herself deeply moved by the stories of the Kindertransports. Gabriella and Michele Gold, herself a child of a Kindertransport Survivor, collected over 600 photographs of transported children and placed them in
- [My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports/) - Ruth Birnholz, Vienna, 1933 Screening of the award winning documentary film, My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports and discussion with the director. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County The Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove, NY 119542 phone: 516 571-8040.
- [Choosing to Act: Role of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/choosing-to-act-role-of-the-kindertransport/) - Choosing to Act: The Role of the Kindertransports A special Holocaust Education Program May 1st (Tuesday) and May 2nd (Wednesday) Featured Speakers: Kurt Goldberger, KTA President, and Margaret Goldberger, KTA Speakers Bureau. The film NICHOLAS WINTON: THE POWER OF GOOD will be screened. NO CHARGE; Pre-Registration Accepted. The College of Saint Elizabeth Holocaust Education Resource
- [The Pianist of Willesden Lane in Chicago](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-pianist-of-willesden-lane-in-chicago/) - Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true story of Mona Golabek's mother, noted pianist Lisa Jura. When Lisa is sent on the kinder transport to London to protect her from the Nazi regime, everything about her life is upended except her love of
- [After the Play: The Pianist of Willesden Lane Understanding the Kinder Transport](https://kindertransport.org/events/after-the-play-the-pianist-of-willesden-lane-understanding-the-kinder-transport/) - Ralph S. Kindertransport survivor Join Morgan Blum, Director of Education at the Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center, Ralph S. a local Kindertransport survivor, to delve into the unique history of the Kindertransport, how it worked, who was able to go, and what happened to the children once they arrived in England. Lehrhaus Judaica,
- [Kindertransport 75th Anniversary Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-commemoration-3/) - Dr Foster, of the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants introduces Janet Merkur at Kindertransport Commemoration 2013 at the Sydney Jewish Museum. KT2 Janet Merkur, Chair of the Australian chapter of the KTA will present a visual history of the Kindertransport, including personal details of her mother's experience, and read letters her mother
- [Kindertransport 75th Anniversary Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-commemoration-2/) - KTA Vice President, Karen Lindenbaum created a sign up sheet for Kinder. Karl Stayna left on a KIndertransport from Vienna, December 12, 1938. The Kindertransport Association is hosting a memorial event in New York City. The Village Temple 33 E 12th St, New York, NY 10003 Please rsvp to: kt2@kindertransport.org
- [International Kindertransport Day](https://kindertransport.org/events/international-kindertransport-day/) - Manny Lindenbaum and sister, pre-war To commemorate and honor International Kindertransport Day on December 2, our program will feature Manny Lindenbaum, Kindertransport survivor, his daughter and granddaughter who will share the generational impact of the Kindertransport. Warner Student Life Center Brookdale Community College 765 Newman Springs Road Lincroft, New Jersey Admission: $5.00 Free for Students
- [The Vienna project](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-vienna-project/) - The Vienna Project is a new social action memorial project taking place on the streets of Vienna and along the Danube Canal. The Vienna project opened on 23 October 2013 and will conclude May 8 2014 with a closing ceremony at the Austrian National Library at the Hofburg Palace with artist Nikolaus Gansterer and author
- [Michael Roemer Film Series](https://kindertransport.org/events/michael-roemer-film-series/) - The Plot Against Harry A selection of Michael Roemer's films, both documentary and fiction, will be screened, and Roemer will be present at several screenings. Roemer is a Kind from Berlin, a Professor at Yale, and a wonderful filmmaker. The Film Forum, 209 West Houston St. NYC
- [Kindertransport Florida Chanukah Lunch](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-florida-chanukah-lunch/) - This photo from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was taken in October 1959 at a stop in Livingston, N.J. by photographer Charlotte Kapp. Whatever is going on in the world, it is still time to celebrate Chanukah. Please join us for a delicious lunch. Let’s light the first
- [KT80 Symposium Diane Samuels London Talk](https://kindertransport.org/events/kt80-symposium-diane-samuels-london-talk/) - Diane Samuels will talk about her play, Kindertransport, which has been performed worlwide, and continuously, since its debut in 1993. MacMillan Hall-Senate House. University of London Malet Street, London WC1 E 7HU For free tickets: https://bit.ly/2RBBuEY
- [KT80 Symposium Imperial War Museum London Talk](https://kindertransport.org/events/kt80-symposium-imperial-war-museum-london-talk/) - James Bulgin will speak about the new Holocaust exhibition being created at the Imperial War Museum and the preparations and research underway to realise a new and innovative approach. James will include a discussion about the ways the Kindertransport fits into the new exhibition. The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London WC1 B 5DP To
- [My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports Screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports-screening/) - Join us to watch, and discuss with director Melissa Hacker, the groundbreaking, first documentary film to tell the heart-wrenching story of the Kindertransports.
- [Kindertransport Exhibit at The Center for Jewish History, New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-exhibit-at-the-center-for-jewish-history-new-york-city/) - Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War Leo Baeck Institute and Yeshiva University Museum launch an exhibition exploring this remarkable effort that saved some 10,000 children, many of whom never saw their parents again. Popper Gallery Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th St. Sun 11:00am–5:00pm Mon & Wed 11:00am-8:00pm Tues & Thur 11:00am-5:00pm
- [The Kindertransport Journey Commemorative Trip Presentation](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-journey-commemorative-trip-presentation/) - KT2 Rachel Rubin Green, the Kindertransport Association's Officer at Large, will talk about the remarkable trip she participated in July 1-14. 4 Kinder and 14 members of the Second Generation and partners traveled from Vienna, to Berlin, to London by train and ferry, loosely tracing the route of the Kindertransports 80 years ago. The Los
- [At the End of the Tunnel](https://kindertransport.org/events/at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/) - At the End of the Tunnel, an exhibit on the Kindertransports installed in Berlin, Charlottenburg, outdoors, in public space, open all hours, will be on view through the end of October.
- [Service to commemorate Kristallnacht, London](https://kindertransport.org/events/service-to-commemorate-kristallnacht-london/) - The Association of Jewish Refugees' annual commemoration of Kristallnacht. to rsvp: karin@ajr.org.uk Belsize Square Synagogue, 51 Belsize Square London NW3 4HX
- [Virtual Film and Discussion: Nicky’s Family](https://kindertransport.org/events/virtual-film-and-discussion-nickys-family/) - 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
- [Information Session on Austrian Citizenship for KT2s and KT3s](https://kindertransport.org/events/information-session-on-austrian-citizenship-for-kt2s-and-kt3s/) - 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.
- [Virtual Cafe Europa](https://kindertransport.org/events/virtual-cafe-europa/) - 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.
- [Stories of Kindertransport and the Enigma Machine](https://kindertransport.org/events/stories-of-kindertransport-and-the-enigma-machine/) - Janet Merkur, a KT2 and Chair of the Australian chapter of the Kindertransport Association, and a former Honorary Secretary of the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants will speak. Janet’s mother was saved through Kindertransport, and she brings her unique understanding to the topic. Her mother also had involvement with the breaking of
- [76th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz](https://kindertransport.org/events/76th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz/) - Panel discussion on "The influence of war & the Holocaust on the formation of a child's identity" Featuring: KTA President Melissa Hacker (Second Generation Kindertransport) Lea Balint (Holocaust Survivor) Janina Reklajtis (Auschwitz Survivor)
- [Vienna Kindertransport: A Family History](https://kindertransport.org/events/vienna-kindertransport-a-family-history/) - KT2 Dr. David Bader highlights his mother Sophie's journey on a Kindertransport from Vienna to Manchester, when she was five years old in 1939. Dr. Bader will share his research about the role played by the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany (London) and explain how to access Kindertransport records specific to Vienna.
- [Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-59](https://kindertransport.org/events/becoming-gustav-metzger-uncovering-the-early-years-1945-59/) - An exhibit, on a Kindertransport Survivor and brilliant artist, opening in London and online. Online talks begin April 28, with a Curators tour of the upcoming exhibit. Related Website
- [International Forum: Connecting Next Generations](https://kindertransport.org/events/international-forum-connecting-next-generations/) - The Association of Jewish Refugees presents a two-day hybrid international forum for descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees. Both online and in person in London. Open to second, third or even fourth generations, the hope is that this forum will be valuable and interesting. Originally planned for April 2020, cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic,
- [Inauguration Ceremony of Vienna Holocaust Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/events/inauguration-ceremony-of-vienna-holocaust-memorial-2/) - Visualization of the new Vienna Memorial A memorial to the Jewish children, women and men of Austria who were murdered in the Holocaust is being installed in Ostarrichi Park, Vienna. Research was conducted by the Documentations Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The DÖW Database of Shoah Victims contains over 64,000 Names. DÖW knows that
- [Truus' Children Screening and Discussion](https://kindertransport.org/events/truus-children-screening-and-discussion/) - Truus at MJHNY Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage & the Netherlands’ diplomatic network in the US for a virtual screening & discussion of Truus’ Children, from Dutch filmmakers Pamela Sturhoofd and Jessica van Tijn. View a panel discussion with Sturhoofd, van Tijn & Ilse Bauer-Langsdorf, a child saved by Truus Wijsmuller, moderated by Michael
- [1993 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/1993-national-kta-reunion/) - Fallsview Hotel (The Catskills), New York
- [1995 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/1995-national-kta-reunion/) - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- [1998 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/1998-national-kta-reunion/) - Arlington, Virginia
- [ROK 60th Anniversary Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/rok-60th-anniversary-reunion/) - London, England Hosted by the RoK (Reunion of Kindertransport)
- [Reunion in Scotland](https://kindertransport.org/events/reunion-in-scotland/) - Gunther Abrahamson attended the reunion of the Selkirk Kinder, spouses, children and grand-children who had come together from three continents, to the small town of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, which in 1939 welcomed some 20 refugee children, a tiny part of the Kindertransport from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany.
- [2002 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/2002-national-kta-reunion/) - Remembering the Past; Embracing the Future Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- [2006 National KTA Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/2006-national-kta-reunion/) - “Remembering the Past… Shaping the Future” November 3-5, 2006 Sheraton Meadowlands Conference Center East Rutherford, New Jersey
- [My Heart in a Suitcase](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-heart-in-a-suitcase-2/) - ArtsPower National Touring Theater This play, drawn from the autobiography of Kind Anne Fox is currently touring schools and other venues. KTA members are invited to attend any of the performances at no charge. Click on DETAILS below to view a video!
- [An Authentic Basis for Hope: Holocaust Remembrance and Education.](https://kindertransport.org/events/an-authentic-basis-for-hope-holocaust-remembrance-and-education/) - Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed at the United Nations in New York.
- ['How Far Was Vienna?' at the Austrian Cultural Forum](https://kindertransport.org/events/how-far-was-vienna-at-the-austrian-cultural-forum/) - Five accomplished authors with Austrian-Jewish roots will read from newly published memoirs and fiction on growing up and older away from their homeland. With authors KTA member Lore Segal, KTA member Eva Kollisch, Bruno Schwebel, Carol Asher, and Leo Spitzer. Austrian Cultural Forum NY, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 Free Admission. Reservations
- [In Conversation: Lore Segal](https://kindertransport.org/events/in-conversation-lore-segal/) - Writer and KTA member Lore Segal discusses her books Shakespeare's Kitchen, Her First American, and Other People's Houses at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in New York City.
- [Vienna's Lost Daughters opens in New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/viennas-lost-daughters-opens-in-new-york-city/) - Vienna's Lost Daughters is a new documentary that follows eight women living in New York, including several KTA members, who grew up Jewish in Vienna and had to flee in 1938/39. The film is a sensitive study of the lives they have created in a new country, while managing to keep Vienna living on in
- [KTA member speaks to Jewish Geneological Society](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-member-speaks-to-jewish-geneological-society/) - Lisl Schick speaks at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Schick was 10 when she experienced Kristallnacht in Vienna, Austria. Soon after, her parents arranged passage for her and her brother to England. Following the program, there will be an optional docent-led tour of the Museum. Schick's talk is free. The optional tour is
- [Holocaust commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/holocaust-commemoration/) - KTA member Manfred Lindenbaum will speak at an observance to be held at Congregation Ahavat Olam, 1075 Forest Ave., Lakewood, New Jersey, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Kindertransport. The event is co-sponsored by Congregation Ahavat Olam and Congregation Beth Ahm Shalom. All survivors are invited to light a memorial candle.
- [Dr. Ken Hanson performs as Martin Niemoller](https://kindertransport.org/events/dr-ken-hanson-performs-as-martin-niemoller/) - Dr. Ken Hanson performs as Martin Niemoller, the famous German theologian who was ultimately arrested by the Nazis and who authored the quotation: When they came for the communists, I remained silent; because I was not a communist...When they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; because I was not a Jew. When
- [The Power of Forgiveness](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-power-of-forgiveness/) - Richard Wiener lived under the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1939 as the only Jewish student in a school of Hitler Youth. After the fall of the Berlin wall, Wiener returned to his hometown of Wittenberg for a class reunion. During that trip he initiated a healing experience with his former classmates. Upon returning to
- [Homage to a Great European: Sir Nicholas Winton a Man who embodied the Power of Good](https://kindertransport.org/events/homage-to-a-great-european-sir-nicholas-winton-a-man-who-embodied-the-power-of-good/) - “Save one life, save the world” An evening in honor of Sir Nicholas Winton hosted by The Consulate General of the Czech Republic and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Keynote speaker: Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic, Peter A. Rafaeli, followed by a screening of the film The Power of Good. A
- [My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports-2/) - My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports, the award-winning documentary film will be shown at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, Amsterdam Avenue and 68th St, NYC. This screening is hosted by the League of Professional Theatre Women, as Ruth Morley, who is featured in the film, and escaped Vienna on a Kindertransport,
- [Ten Thousand Children](https://kindertransport.org/events/ten-thousand-children/) - Eva Podietz will discuss “Ten Thousand Children,” chronicling the Kindertransport. A League of Our Own meeting, 2p.m. Thursday October 8, Temple Judea of Bucks County, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Route 313. Make-your-own sundae refreshments will be served. Cost is $7, $5 for members. Information: 215-794-3143.
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust 21st International Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-21st-international-conference/) - Generation to Generation... L'Dor V'Dor Child survivors, spouses, families, second and third generation members welcome. Advance registration required. The conference, featuring speakers, workshops, and local tours, will take place in Boston. For more information call toll free: 877-258-7089 email:09conf@gmail.com
- [KTA Hanukkah Party](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-hanukkah-party/) - A festive gathering with lunch and a screening of the film The Ritchie Boys. $18. The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South (20th st near 3rd Ave) New York City. Call 718-229-0204 to rsvp.
- [KTA Exhibit in North Carolina](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-exhibit-in-north-carolina/) - “The Kindertransport Journey: Memory Into History,” the 17 panel exhibit created by the Kindertransport Association consisting of photos, personal testimony and historical background can be seen at the Kings Mountain Art Center. 301 N. Piedmont Ave., Kings Mountain, NC, 28086 (704) 739-5585 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sunday
- [Beth Torah’s Yom HaShoah event “The Kindertransport”](https://kindertransport.org/events/beth-torahs-yom-hashoah-event-the-kindertransport/) - Temple Beth Torah’s Yom HaShoah event “The Kindertransport” at 7:30 p.m. April 11 includes guest speaker KTA member Ralph Samuel. 42000 Paseo Padre Parkway, Fremont. For more information, call (510) 656-7141
- [Separation for Survival: Remembering the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/separation-for-survival-remembering-the-kindertransport/) - The North Peninsula’s community-wide Yom HaShoah commemoration “Separation for Survival: Remembering the Kindertransport” takes place at 6:30 p.m. April 12 at Temple Beth El, 1700 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. For details, call (650) 341-7701
- [2010 National KTA Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/2010-national-kta-conference/) - The KTA's next biennial gathering will be held in Arlington Virginia, near Washington DC The Kindertransports' Enduring Impact A weekend of workshops, speakers, and socializing. To attend, please download registration form above, or contact KTA President Kurt Goldberger at: info@kindertransport.org
- [Panel discussion with Gustav Metzger](https://kindertransport.org/events/panel-discussion-with-gustav-metzger/) - Panel discussion with Gustav Metzger on "Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs,” the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the influential eighty-five-year-old artist and activist Gustav Metzger. The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York City
- [The Kindertransport Association Exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-association-exhibit/) - The Kindertransport Association Exhibit will be on display at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. In addition to the panels, a program of special events, speakers, and screenings is being planned. The Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove, NY 119542, phone: 516 571-8040.
- [Kindertransport Association Exhibit Opening](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-association-exhibit-opening/) - The Kindertransport Journey will be exhibited at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County from July 17 through August, 2011. The opening event will take place on Sunday July 17th at 1:30 P.M. Refreshments will be served. 100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove, NY 11542 phone: 516 571-8040
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-conference/) - Warsaw 2011 WFJCSH CONFERENCE The 2011 Conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland, at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel For details, please check the WFJCS website
- [Memorial for Irene Schmied](https://kindertransport.org/events/memorial-for-irene-schmied/) - A memorial for Irene Schmied, former editor of the Kinder-Link, will be held. The memorial will be followed by a talk by author Judith Eichler Weber,about her book "Seeking Safety". It tells the story of the 1,000 persons who were rescued through the efforts of Eleanore Roosevelt and the journalist Ruth Gruber. Holocaust Memorial and
- [Exhibit installation "The Last Goodbye"](https://kindertransport.org/events/exhibit-installation-the-last-goodbye/) - 3:00 pm The film "Nicky's Family," on Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransports, will be screened. Admission is complementary. Refreshments will be served following the program. 5:00 pm “The Last Goodbye” highlights the rescue of tens of thousands of children from Nazi Europe in the Kindertransport. A new part of the International Institute of the Righteous
- [A Closer Look: Holocaust Memorial Day](https://kindertransport.org/events/a-closer-look-holocaust-memorial-day/) - The Imperial War Museums in Manchester and London will offer education and memorial as the collections are brought to life by talks from Holocaust survivors, plus tours and storytelling. Events start in Manchester with a walk and recollections of the Kindertransport and the chaplain who entered Belsen with British forces. Many events are family-friendly, with
- [The United Nations' annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-united-nations-annual-observance-of-the-international-day-of-commemoration-in-memory-of-the-victims-of-the-holocaust/) - The solemn ceremony on the theme “Children and the Holocaust” will feature a video message remarks by UN Secretary-General, and statements by the President of the General Assembly and the Permanent Representatives of Israel and the Dominican Republic to the United Nations. The General Assembly Hall, UN HQ, New York
- [Genocide Awareness Week](https://kindertransport.org/events/genocide-awareness-week/) - There will be films, discussions, and a performance, Monday - Friday at the Center for Peace and Reconciliation. My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports will screen Wednesday April 25, 6pm, followed by a discussion with the director. Bergen Community College 400 Paramus Road, Paramus, New Jersey 07652 201-447-7100
- [Lawrence University Remembers the Holocaust in Multimedia Symposium](https://kindertransport.org/events/lawrence-university-remembers-the-holocaust-in-multimedia-symposium/) - Highlighting the program will be the first-person experiences shared by 4 Holocaust survivors who fled Vienna, Austria in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Curtis Brown from Neenah, and Anne Kelemen, Gerda Lederer and Renee Wiener, from New York, will share their personal accounts of topics covering life in Austria leading up to the war, escape
- [Kindertransport Exhibit in New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-exhibit-in-new-york-city/) - The Kindertransport Exhibit will be shown at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Center at Queensborough Community College, from July 12 to September 29th. An opening event will be held on July 12th, at 1 P.M. with special guest Consul General of the U.K. in New York, Mr. Tony Perez. Address: 222-05 56th Ave. Bayside, NY. Phone: 718
- [Kindertransport Association Conference 2012](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-association-conference-2012/) - Kindertransport Conference 2012 Generation to Generation Honoring the Legacy; Transforming the Future. The Kindertransport Association is planning our next international reunion - in Irvine, California. We invite all Kindertransport generations, now living all over the world! Join our facebook page!
- [U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - 20th Anniversary National Tour](https://kindertransport.org/events/u-s-holocaust-memorial-museum-20th-anniversary-national-tour/) - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - 20th Anniversary National Tour and Tribute to Holocaust Survivors and WWII Veterans Join us for free, daylong public events as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum marks 20 years of honoring memory and inspiring action. Los Angeles, February 17, 2013 New York City, March 3 Washington, DC, April 28-29 Chicago,
- [Plymouth, MA  Yom Ha-Shoah observance](https://kindertransport.org/events/plymouth-ma-yom-ha-shoah-observance/) - PLYMOUTH – The Plymouth community’s annual interfaith observance of Yom Ha-Shoah will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at the Church of the Pilgrimage, located at 8 Town Square. The event will include readings from Holocaust literature and a special guest speaker, Albert Silverstein, who, during the Nazi occupation, was rescued from central
- [The Creation of The Pianist of Willesden Lane](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-creation-of-the-pianist-of-willesden-lane/) - In advance of its highly anticipated run at the Royal George Theatre, Hershey Felder and Mona Golabek come to Spertus with a rare behind-the-scenes look at the creation of The Pianist of Willesden Lane, a poignant theatrical and musical tribute to Ms. Golabek's remarkable mother, internationally renowned concert pianist Lisa Jura.
- [Yom Hashoah Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/yom-hashoah-commemoration/) - Kurt and Margaret Goldberger, past President, and current Corresponding Secretary of the Kindertransport Association, will speak at the Interfaith Yom Hashoah Commemoration of the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- [Kindertransport Exhibit in Atlanta](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-exhibit-in-atlanta/) - The Kindertransport Journey will be on display at Am Yisrael Chai as part of their Children of the Holocaust event. Sunday, April 21st, 2013 Yom Hashoah Commemoration Exhibit & Opening Reception 5:00pm Yom Hashoah Event 6:00pm Am Yisrael Chai 1967 Rotherham Way Atlanta, GA,
- [The Pianist of Willesden Lane](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-pianist-of-willesden-lane/) - The Pianist of Willesden Lane is performer Mona Golabek's true family story; a story of the Kindertransport,music, family, and hope. The Pianist of Willesden Lane makes its New York premiere after critically acclaimed, sold out runs in Chicago, Boston, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. KTA members are invited to a special matinee performance on Sunday July
- [Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://kindertransport.org/events/holocaust-remembrance-day/) - KT2 David Meyerhof will be speaking at the Holocaust Remembrance Day program at Beth Emet Synagogue in Burbank, California. 600 N. Buena Vista Street Burbank, California 91505 (818) 843-4787
- [Kindertransport Exhibit in London](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-exhibit-in-london/) - ‘Child Refugees: Five Portraits from the Kindertransport’ takes a fresh look at this significant humanitarian effort. The Wiener Library put out a call for materials in late 2012 and received extraordinary stories from surviving Kinder and their families. Five of these are highlighted in the new exhibition.
- [Kindertransport play in Los Angeles](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-play-in-los-angeles/) - Darby Stanchfield ("Scandal", "Mad Men") joins Susan Sullivan ("Dharma & Greg") and "Malcolm in the Middle's" Jane Kaczmarek! "Kindertransport" celebrates the heroic strength of the human spirit to keep hope alive through children. Performed without sets or costumes and recorded live for later broadcast on public and satellite radio stations nationwide.
- [Association for Jewish Refugees Kindertransport Reunion](https://kindertransport.org/events/association-for-jewish-refugees-kindertransport-reunion/) - The AJR is delighted to announce a series of events that they are organising in London to mark the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport.
- [2nd and 3rd Generation gathering in London](https://kindertransport.org/events/2nd-and-3rd-generation-gathering-in-london/) - The Kindertransport Association and the 2nd Generation Network together on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransports invite all members of the 2nd and 3rd Generations to a reception, in London. At the Wiener Library, rsvp needed, write: events@secondgeneration.org.uk
- [Forward from the Past: The Kindertransport from a Contemporary Perspective](https://kindertransport.org/events/forward-from-the-past-the-kindertransport-from-a-contemporary-perspective/) - The Leo Baeck Institute London is happy to announce a symposium under the title ‘Forward from the Past’ The Kindertransport from a Contemporary Perspective to be held on the occasion of the 75 anniversary of the Kindertransport, to commemorate this historical event and to explore its fascinating aftermath.
- [Nicky's Family film opens in New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/nickys-family-film-opens-in-new-york-city/) - Discover the inspirational true story of "Britain's Schindler" Sir Nicholas Winton in the film Nicky's Family, now playing in select cities nationwide!
- [In Conversation With... Survivors of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/in-conversation-with-survivors-of-the-kindertransport/) - In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransports, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center will host a panel discussion with several Kindertransport survivors. Dr. Elliot Lefkovitz moderates. Reservations required; reservations@ilhmec.org 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-descendants-conference-4/) - 25th Annual International Conference World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants in cooperation with Generations of the Shoah International For Child Survivors, 2nd and 3rd Generations and Families Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Friday November 1 to Monday November 4, 2013 Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa Speakers include: Stephen
- [Kindertransport Journey Exhibit and more in Michigan](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-journey-exhibit-and-more-in-michigan/) - The Kindertransport Journey Exhibit will be on display, and the play "Kindertransport" will be performed at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. Kindertransport survivor John H. Rosen will give a public talk November 5 at 4 p.m. Panel discussions will take place after the November 17, 2 p.m. performance and November 21, 7:30 p.m.
- [Kindertransport Play](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-play/) - Big Wig Productions will team up with Burning Coal Theatre Company to present the North Carolina premiere of Diane Samuels' Kindertransport, directed by Brian Yandle. November 14 - 24, 2013 at Burning Coal's Murphey School Auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Tickets are $10 and may be obtained by calling 919.753.6626 or at www.burningcoal.org.
- [Commemorating Kindertransport's 75th anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/events/commemorating-kindertransports-75th-anniversary/) - The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham is a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransports. Two evening lectures, an afternoon workshop, and a production of Diane Samuels’ play Kindertransport with Diane Samuels conducting a q & a.
- [Kindertransport 75th Anniversary in Parliament](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-in-parliament/) - The Association for Jewish Refugees in Great Britain is organising, with the help of Lord (Alf) Dubs, a special Tea in the Houses of Parliament to mark the debate held there on 21 November 1938 which paved the way for the arrival of the Kindertransport. Tel: 020 8385-3070
- [Kindertransport 75th Anniversary Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-memorial/) - World Jewish Relief, in conjunction with the Association of Jewish Refugees, will be arranging a memorial service at Liverpool Street Station in London, on Sunday 1 December, which recalls the departure 75 years to the day of the first transport of children. Lunch to follow at Bevis Mark Synagogue. For more information, please contact Dani
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration/) - Holocaust Museum LA will commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the first Kindertransport to arrive in Great Britain and discuss its legacy. Panelists include: Michele Gold, Museum Board Chair, author of Memories That Won’t Go Away, and daughter of Kindertransport survivor Rita Berwald; Paul Kester, who traveled from Germany to Sweden on a Kindertransport in 1939;
- [World Kindertransport Day](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day/) - Proclamation of World Kindertransport Day The Kindertransport Association proclaims December 2, 2013 as World Kindertransport Day - the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Kindertransports.
- [The Kindertransport in History and Memory.](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-in-history-and-memory/) - The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham is a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransports. Including this workshop featuring Professor Andrea Hammel, a speaker at the 2012 KTA conference.
- [Kindertransport 75th Anniversary Commemoration:                 Maine Resident, Ed Benedikt, Shares his Story](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-commemoration-maine-resident-ed-benedikt-shares-his-story/) - Ed Benedikt, a Maine resident, was only 8 years old when Ed and his 15 year old sister, Lucie, left Austria on a Kindertransport in December of 1938. Ed’s parents were able to leave Austria in 1941 and Ed and his sister joined them in the United States in 1943. In commemoration of the 75th
- [World Kindertransport Day Film screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-film-screening/) - Temple Beth El of Ithaca New York will be screening 'Nicky's Family' on Sunday, December 8th at 4 p.m. at Cinemapolis, the local art film cinema at 120 East Green Street. Free tickets will be available in the on a first come, first served basis beginning Wednesday, November 13th. If you are not a Temple
- [Kindertransport 75th Anniversary Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75th-anniversary-commemoration/) - The Florida Chapter of the Kindertransport Association is organizing a series of events. They will send a package of educational materials, and speakers into schools, and host a cocktail party featuring a school debate team representing the House of Commons vs the U.S. Congress debating the question of "allowing children without parents into their respective
- [Holocaust Anniversaries: Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and the Genocide Convention](https://kindertransport.org/events/holocaust-anniversaries-kristallnacht-the-kindertransport-and-the-genocide-convention/) - World Without Genocide will commemorate the 75th anniversaries of Kristallnacht, the beginning of the Holocaust, and the kindertransports, and the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Genocide Convention, with a program on Monday, December 9, 2013. Mr. Benno Black, possibly Minnesota’s only survivor of the kindertransport, will share his personal story. William Mitchell College
- [Kindertransport Exhibit in Dallas, Texas](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-exhibit-in-dallas-texas/) - The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History exhibit will be featured at the Dallas Holocaust Museum. 211 N. Record St. Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75202-3361 Phone: (214) 741-7500 Monday – Friday 9:30AM—5:00PM Saturday – Sunday 11:00AM—5:00PM Closed on major national and Jewish holidays
- [To Life: To Children](https://kindertransport.org/events/to-life-to-children/) - Marietta Drucker and Lisl Schick, Children of the Kindertransport and Honorary “To Life” Chairs invite you to join them at To Life: To Children, Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Kindertransports. Featuring Mona Golabek in “The Children of Willesden Lane” 2014 Loebenberg Humanitarian Award Recipient Chief Jane Castor, Tampa Police Department The Mahaffey Theater –
- [Vienna's Lost Daughters Screening in New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/viennas-lost-daughters-screening-in-new-york-city/) - This 2007 Austrian documentary focuses on eight Vienna-born Holocaust survivors who came to New York by way of the "Kindertransporte". For many of these women, Vienna is still their emotional dwelling place, a city that holds both fond memories but also haunting images of the violent separation from their loved ones seventy years ago. This
- [Atlantic Cape Commemorates Kindertransport Anniversary](https://kindertransport.org/events/atlantic-cape-commemorates-kindertransport-anniversary/) - Atlantic Cape Community College and The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Kindertransport in the first of a series of Holocaust remembrance events to take place in March and April at Atlantic Cape’s Mays Landing Campus, 5100 Black Horse Pike.
- [Kindertransport Play in Rome, NY](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-play-in-rome-ny/)
- [From Generation to Generation: The Legacy Continues... An Event Honoring Survivors, Rescuers, Liberators, and their Descendants](https://kindertransport.org/events/from-generation-to-generation-the-legacy-continues-an-event-honoring-survivors-rescuers-liberators-and-their-descendants/) - A daylong event honoring Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, Righteous Among Nations, and Descendents. At Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Center of Nassau County and Hofstra University.
- [Lindenbaum Bicycle Odyssey - Returning After 76 Years](https://kindertransport.org/events/lindenbaum-bicycle-odyssey-returning-after-76-years/) - This is a story which started 76 years ago when the Nazis kicked my family out of our home in Unna. My brother Siegfried and I were refugee children who survived while my parents and sister did not. Today, I am retracing the story back to my home town with my wife, three children, their
- [Southern California KTA Chapter meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/southern-california-kta-chapter-meeting/) - The Southern California KTA Chapter is back!! Next meeting is Tuesday, June 17, 2014,10 am.- 12 noon at Temple Beth Emet, 600 North Buena Vista Ave., Burbank 818-843-4787. Refreshments, great company, discussion, action!
- [KTA Spring Lunch - New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-spring-lunch-new-york-city/) - The New York City and Queens, Long Island chapters host their annual spring lunch at the Brotherhood Synagogue in Manhattan. Details soon.
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendents Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-descendents-conference/) - JUSTICE, RESPECT and PEACE For the first time The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants (WFJCSHD) will hold its conference for Child Survivors of the Holocaust + 2nd and 3rd generations in the German capital BERLIN. The gathering will take place from Sunday 24 – Wednesday 27 August 2014 and
- [“Kindertransport 75”  special train](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-75-special-train/) - A special train will run to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the kindertransports, to celebrate the lives of those saved and commemorate the loss of the lives of those unable to be saved. The train will depart from platform 10 at London Liverpool Street at 10:37 on Thursday 4 September 2014 &
- [Kindertransport Book Launch](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-book-launch/) - MEMORIES THAT WON’T GO AWAY A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport By Michele M. Gold • Artwork by Gabriella Y. Karin Memories That Won’t Go Away tells the story of hundreds of the kinder. The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust 100 S. The Grove Drive • Los Angeles, CA 90036
- [Last Train to Tomorrow](https://kindertransport.org/events/last-train-to-tomorrow/) - The Last Train To Tomorrow tells the extraordinary story of the Kindertransport through a sequence of songs composed and conducted by the internationally acclaimed artist Carl Davis CBE and written by the celebrated children’s author Hiawyn Oram. Introduced by Natasha Kaplinsky. The event is organized by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) and takes place
- [NorCal KTA Chapter lunch](https://kindertransport.org/events/norcal-kta-chapter-lunch/) - Lunch with the President of KTA Northern Califiornia Kinder and families, please join us to meet old friends, and make new comnnections! Melissa Hacker will talk about the next conference planned for October 9 - 11, 2015 and other items of interest. Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat Cafe), Berkeley, CA.
- [World Kindertranport Day 2014](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertranport-day-2014/) - WORLD KINDERTRANSPORT DAY COMMEMORATION BURBANK TOWN CENTER/MALL IN FRONT OF THE BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY The Burbank/Los Angeles Kindertransport Association and the Burbank Human Relations Council invite you to hear the true story of how the Kindertranports (Children’s Transport) saved almost 10,000 children in Europe from the Nazis before World War II. Join us! Contact:David Meyerhof
- [Sir Nicholas Winton - The Power of One](https://kindertransport.org/events/sir-nicholas-winton-the-power-of-one/) - The Kindertransport Association together with The Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants and the Sydney Jewish Museum invite you to celebrate World Kindertransport Day. In the theatrette of the Sydney Jewish Museum,148 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst. Bookings can be made through Janet Merkur: 0409035028
- [Florida KTA Chanukah Party](https://kindertransport.org/events/florida-kta-chanukah-party/) - ..come one and all and please bring your KT2 and 3 KT4's are welcome..(we can provide baby food). Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 12pm Delray Beach Club, Jog Road $25 per adult.
- [Connecting the Generations](https://kindertransport.org/events/connecting-the-generations/) - You are invited to attend an exciting one-day conference in London in London for Holocaust survivors and refugees and their families. The KTA is one of three organizations hosting this historic gathering The Institute of Education (near Russell Square), London.
- [KTA New York Spring Lunch](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-new-york-spring-lunch/) - The NYC, Queens, Long Island chapter of the KTA hosts its annual spring lunch.
- [KTA Conference 2015](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-conference-2015/) - Generations Together: Our Heritage and the Future The Kindertransport Association is planning our next National Conference! It will be held in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in collaboration with the Holocaust Memorial Center, home of the Kindertransport Quilts.
- [Running for Their Lives: Voices of Child Refugees](https://kindertransport.org/events/running-for-their-lives-voices-of-child-refugees/) - In February 1939,U.S. Congress killed the Wagner-Rogers Bill to provide refuge to 20,000 endangered Jewish children.Laura Delano Houghteling, wife of U.S. Commissioner of Immigration & cousin of FDR, said “Twenty thousand charming children would all too soon grow up into twenty thousand ugly adults.”This prejudice and heartlessness has been similarly expressed about the unaccompanied children
- [Nicky's Family Film screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/nickys-family-film-screening/) - The Fifth Avenue Synagogue (FAS) Women's Club hosts a screening of Nicky's Family, and KTA member Helga Shepard will speak after the film. Fifth Avenue Synagogue, a prominent modern Orthodox synagogue, is located at 5 East 62nd Street (north side of the street), which is between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue on the east side
- [AJR Kristallnacht Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/events/ajr-kristallnacht-memorial/) - Sir Peter Bazalgette, chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation and Kind Leslie Brent will speak. Memorial candles will be lit. Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg will officiate. Belsize Square Synagogue, 51 Belsize Square, London NW3 4HX. We are arranging free transport to and from the Synagogue from Stanmore, Golders Green and Finchley Road Station. Please contact
- [NorCal chapter Hanukkah gathering](https://kindertransport.org/events/norcal-chapter-hanukkah-gathering/) - The Northern California KTA Chapter will be getting together in Oakland for a Hanukkah celebration. All generations are invited. For details: info@kindertransport.org
- [Barbara Winton speaks at the USHMM](https://kindertransport.org/events/barbara-winton-speaks-at-the-ushmm/) - The Lives He Saved and the Secrets We Keep Barbara Winton will talk about her book about her father, Nicholas Winton. Free. Reserve a place online.
- [We Must Save the Children - Cambridge & the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/we-must-save-the-children-cambridge-the-kindertransport/) - Churchill College Cambridge hosts an exhibit on Cambridge and the Kindertransports. Opening drinks reception January 25 18:30-19:30, Jock Colville Hall, Churchill Archives Centre RSVP: mike@keystage-company.co.uk
- [Screening of Nicky's Family in New York](https://kindertransport.org/events/screening-of-nickys-family-in-new-york/) - Screening of Nicky's Family followed by discussion with Barbara Winton Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City $10. Tickets required.
- [United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony](https://kindertransport.org/events/united-nations-holocaust-memorial-ceremony/) - Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 11am-1pm United Nations, New York City The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony, General Assembly Hall Barbara Winton will open a video tribute to her father. Register online.
- [Escape from Nazi Germany: Nobel Prize to Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/escape-from-nazi-germany-nobel-prize-to-kindertransport/) - Talk and book signing by KT2 David Meyerhof. Retired teacher and Burbank resident David Meyerhof has a family history that includes a Nobel Prize and perilous escapes from the Nazis in Germany and France during World War II. It’s the kind of material that would make a great book or movie, but Meyerhof has used
- [Michele Gold Booksigning USHMM, Washington DC](https://kindertransport.org/events/michele-gold-booksigning-ushmm-washington-dc/) - Memories that Won't Go Away tells the story of the 10,000 children who traveled alone from Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain on the Kindertransport. This book looks at hundreds of these children, focusing on their experiences as strangers in a strange land and their gratitude to a nation for rescuing them from
- [Washington DC KTA Chapter Luncheon](https://kindertransport.org/events/washington-dc-kta-chapter-luncheon/) - Ralph and Phyllis Mollerick invite Kinder and families to a local gathering. Ralph Mollerick, a founder of the Washington DC chapter, and Melissa Hacker, KTA President will speak.
- [Kindertransport survivor to speak at Yom Hashoah observance, Maitland,Florida](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-survivor-to-speak-at-yom-hashoah-observance-maitlandflorida/) - In addition to traditional music and local survivors lightning candles in remembrance of Hitler's victims, the program features a conversation with Peter Homburger, a survivor who now lives in Colorado. He is the uncle of a Maitland resident Dr. Eve Homburger, who was instrumental in arranging for him to speak here. He was rescued in
- [Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Concert](https://kindertransport.org/events/sir-nicholas-winton-memorial-concert/) - SIR NICHOLAS WINTON :A CELEBRATION CONCERT All are welcome to celebrate the life of Sir Nicholas Winton with his family and friends St Johns' Smith Square, London Friday May 20th at 7:30 pm Tickets: Adults £18 and £5 for children All funds donated will be given to charities supporting Syrian refugee children
- [An Evening With Mona Golabek](https://kindertransport.org/events/an-evening-with-mona-golabek/) - At the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Following Her Sold-Out Run in London Pianist, author, and star of The Pianist of Willesden Lane pays tribute to her mother, Lisa Jura, who survived the Holocaust through the Kindertransport.
- [Kindertransport memorial train journey](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-memorial-train-journey/) - The date marks the first anniversary of the passing away of Sir Nicholas Winton and the 77th anniversary of the arrival in Harwich and London of his largest single transport of 241 children, on 1st July 1939. Various events in Harwich during the day will commemorate the Kindertransport operation. A special train comprising the A1
- [KTA Southern California meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-southern-california-meeting-2/) - Meeting of local Los Angeles chapter. All KTA members, Kinder, 2G and 3G are welcome. Studio City location. To rsvp and for details, contact David Meyerhof: David Meyerhof meyerhof.david@yahoo.com
- [AJR Seminar - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/ajr-seminar-london/) - To celebrate 75 years of The Association of Jewish Refugees,an exploration of the heritage, culture and rich history of the Jewish émigrés from Central Europe who fled Nazi oppression and found refuge in Great Britain. KTA VP Anita Grosz will speak as part of a session on Intergenerational Conversations, Thursday 15 September at 11.45am.
- [KTA Southern California meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-southern-california-meeting/) - The next Southern California Kindertransport Association meeting is scheduled for Sunday, October 23,10a. Meeting, in Los Angeles, to be followed by Sukkot brunch. Email David Meyerhof for details. meyerhof.david@yahoo.com Please RSVP by Sunday, October 16
- [Conference of Child Survivors and Descendants](https://kindertransport.org/events/conference-of-child-survivors-and-descendants/) - The KTA is a member of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants, and now we are merging our conferences. All KTA members are invited to attend the 2016 conference.
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration Australia](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-australia/) - We will screen the film Nicky’s Family, about Sir Nicholas Winton, who organised the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children before the outbreak of World War II. Dozens of these children have been located and his ‘family’ has grown to almost 6,000 people. Sydney Jewish Museum Free entry – RSVP essential rsvp@sjm.com.au / 9360
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-3/) - Join the Southern California KTA Chapter for a slide show with speakers and music. Burbank Town Center Mall, 201 W Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91502
- [The History of the Kindertransport and Its Long-Term Effects](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-history-of-the-kindertransport-and-its-long-term-effects/) - Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Leo Baeck Institute present a lecture by Lilly Maier on "The History of the Kindertransport and Its Long-Term Effects." Lilly Maier gave a wonderful presentation at the 2015 KTA Conference, if you missed that, be sure to attend! Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews New York, NY 10003
- [Chanukah party South Florida](https://kindertransport.org/events/chanukah-party-south-florida/) - The Florida Chapter of the Kindertransport Association Hosts our annual Chanukah luncheon. Whatever is going on in the world, it is still time to celebrate Chanukah. Please join us for a delicious lunch. Let’s light the first Chanukah candle together and sing some Chanukah songs.
- [In Search of Parents' Fate: Rita Rimalower's Postcards from Glasgow 1940-1942](https://kindertransport.org/events/in-search-of-parents-fate-rita-rimalowers-postcards-from-glasgow-1940-1942/) - KTA member Michele Gold shares this collection highlighting the experience of her mother, Rita Rimalower-Nettler. From 1940-1942, Rita sent postcards, six of which are on exhibit, pleading for news of her parents. Each postcard tells a heartbreaking story of separation and loss, themes echoed in the personal narrative of Holocaust Survivor, Eva Brettler who will
- [KTA Florida Spring luncheon](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-florida-spring-luncheon/) - This year at the luncheon we will have a very special program. Students from a local school will be joining us to hear our stories through an interactive game called, “Name that Kind.” The game will provide a fun way for us (Kind & KT2/3) to share our stories with the students and each other.
- [My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports Screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports-screening-2/) - My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports, the pioneering documentary film on the Kindertransports, screens in Vienna, hosted by the Jewish Welcome Service, with a discussion between director Melissa Hacker and writer Doron Rabinovici. Votivkino, Währinger Straße 12, 1090 Wien
- [Kindertransport Quilts on Exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-quilts-on-exhibit/) - The Kindertransport Memorial Quilt replicas will be on display at the Northwest Surrey Synagogue, in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Open to the public April 30, 1-4pm, pre-registration essential. Yom Hashoah Service April 23, 7:30pm
- [Holocaust survivor who escaped Czechoslovakia to speak in West Michigan](https://kindertransport.org/events/holocaust-survivor-who-escaped-czechoslovakia-to-speak-in-west-michigan/) - Renata Laxova, a "Nicholas Winton Kind" will speak at 3:30pm Sunday, April 23, at Samuel Lutheran Church, 540 Houston Ave. Muskegon. Her next engagement will be 6:30pm Monday, April 24, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1206 Whitehall Road, Muskegon. The final event is 12:30pm Tuesday, April 25, at West Shore Community College, 3000 N.
- [New York’s Annual Gathering of Remembrance](https://kindertransport.org/events/new-yorks-annual-gathering-of-remembrance/) - The Museum of Jewish Heritage presents the largest Holocaust commemoration in New York City in observance of Yom HaShoah and brings together more than 2,000 people, including survivors and their families, elected officials, and other members of the community for a memorial service that fulfills the sacred Jewish act to remember. Temple Emanu-El, East 65th
- [Witness Theater, New York](https://kindertransport.org/events/witness-theater-new-york/) - The KTA is proud that KTA members are participating in this unique drama therapy program which pairs Holocaust survivors with students to create original theater pieces. In commemorating Yom HaShoah, these powerful stories take center stage and come to life — so that we and every generation after us can always remember. Hosted by UJA
- [2nd Generation Network London German Citizenship Event](https://kindertransport.org/events/2nd-generation-network-london-german-citizenship-event/) - Restoration of German Citizenship Post-Brexit many of us are considering applying for German passports. Juliane Busch from the German Embassy will talk about Article 116 (2) Basic Law, explaining the application process and the documents required to acquire German citizenship. Followed by a question and answer session and one of our members, will share her
- [2nd Generation Network London Discussion Group](https://kindertransport.org/events/2nd-generation-network-london-discussion-group/) - London Discussion Group: Creative Responses to the Holocaust An opportunity to explore the many ways the Holocaust has been processed and represented in the arts. What has worked for you? What hasn't? An informal discussion group for Second and Third Generations and an opportunity to share your thoughts. There is no need to book, but
- [Kindertransport musical to be performed at Maidenhead Synagogue](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-musical-to-be-performed-at-maidenhead-synagogue/) - A musical tale of the Kindertransports from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia will be performed at Maidenhead Synagogue next month. Sir Nicholas Winton, who has a statue at Maidenhead Train Station, helped transport and find foster families for more than 600 Czech children. The music was written by renowned composer Carl Davis who lives in Windsor.
- [Kindertransport Memorial in Prague](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-memorial-in-prague/) - The Valediction Memorial will honor the memory of all the parents brave enough to have said ‘good bye’ to their children sending them by trains to strangers knowing that this was the only way to save their lives. The memorial is unveiled on May 27 and will stand on Hlavni Nadrazi – the Prague main
- [New York area KTA summer luncheon](https://kindertransport.org/events/new-york-area-kta-summer-luncheon/) - The NYC, Queens, Long Island chapter of the KTA hosts its annual spring lunch. All KTA members welcome, whether you live in or near NY or are passing through.
- [My Knees Were Jumping Remembering the Kindertransports Screening in Belfast](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports-screening-in-belfast/) - My Knees Were Jumping in Belfast, Northern Ireland Thursday July 27, followed by a conversation with Director Melissa Hacker. The Jewish community in Belfast took in Kindertransport children, at nearby Millisle Farm and in homes in Belfast. Free but booking recommended. Book by emailing hello@digitalartsstudios.com with your name and number of seats or telephone 02890
- [KIndertransport Play in Miami](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-play-in-miami/) - At the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center/Sanford L. Ziff Campus 18900 NE 25th Avenue, North Miami Beach, FL Tel 305.932.4200 ext. 130
- [Honoring the role of the Quakers in the Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/events/honoring-the-role-of-the-quakers-in-the-kindertransports/) - The Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Melbourne, Australia presents: A commemoration ceremony acknowledging the role the Religious Society of Friends-Quakers played in the Kindertransport rescue effort, 1938 - 1939 Video of the event is online: https://vimeo.com/249328942
- [WFJCSHD, KTA, GSI Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/wfjcshd-kta-gsi-conference-2/) - The 2017 World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants, Kindertransport Association, and Generations of the Shoah International Conference November 5-8, 2017 Dan Hotel Jerusalem Details soon
- [My Knees Were Jumping Remembering the Kindertransports Screening in South Bend](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports-screening-in-south-bend/) - Kindertransport Association President Melissa Hacker will screen her groundbreaking documentary film at Temple Beth-El and hold a post-screening discussion. Melissa will also be speaking in local schools.
- [Kindertransport: Experience and Fiction](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-experience-and-fiction/) - This event brings together Kindertransportee Ruth Barnett and Ursula Krechel, the German author whose novel Landgericht is based on Barnett’s family story. Brief talks provide background on the history and memory of the Kindertransport (Dr Andrea Hammel, Aberystwyth) and on the treatment of the Kindertransport in fiction (Stephanie Homer, IMLR). All are welcome to attend
- [World Kindertransport Day Los Angeles](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-los-angeles/) - This year the theme of the commemorative program is "Celebrating Rescuers Then and Now." Speakers will honor those who worked to make the Kindertransports possible, Holocaust Rescuer Varian Fry, rescue during the Armenian Genocide, and volunteers who work today in refugee camps in Turkey and Greece. The Colony Theater 555 N. 3rd street, Burbank, CA,
- [World Kindertransport Day Florida](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-florida/) - The Florida Kinder are celebrating World Kindertransport Day and Chanukah. Chana Rose will play our favorite Chanukah songs. Hopefully, you will sing along. After a delicious lunch we will play a special edition of Chanukah Bingo, introduced by and created by Beth Meirav. Register with the attached form
- [World Kindertransport Day, Sidney, NSW, Australia](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-sidney-nsw-australia/) - A gathering commemorating the 79th anniversary of the date - December 2nd, 1938 - when the first Kindertransport, carrying children from Berlin, Germany, arrived to safety in the United Kingdom. Hosted by the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) RSVP: admim@ncjwnsw.org T: 9363 0257
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-2/) - A gathering to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Kindertransports will be held in New York City.
- [Kindertransport play UK tour](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-play-uk-tour/) - The 2018 tour of the Diane Samuels play opens at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch 8-24 March 2018 before transferring to Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg 27-31 March. It will then embark on a limited 3-week tour across the UK, visiting New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Richmond Theatre and Manchester Opera House.
- [Discussion Group: Intergenerational taboos: What cannot be said?](https://kindertransport.org/events/discussion-group-intergenerational-taboos-what-cannot-be-said/) - The Second Generation Network in London will show the short film ‘The Little Dictator’, and discuss sensitive words and times that are taboo in our families. Talking to our parents and close relatives about their experiences can be difficult for them and for us. How easy is it to be open? An informal discussion group
- [Vienna - London: Passage to Safety](https://kindertransport.org/events/vienna-london-passage-to-safety/) - Emigre´ portraits in photographs and words highlight the life stories of 21 Austrians who fled to the United Kingdom during the 1930s to escape National Socialism, many escaped via Kindertransport. The event will be opened by Austrian Ambassador Martin Eichtinger. artist Marion Trestler, Sir Erich Reich, chairman of the AJR Kindertransport group and Dr Diane
- [Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day, White Plains, NY](https://kindertransport.org/events/yom-hashoah-holocaust-remembrance-day-white-plains-ny/) - The documentary film My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports will be shown, and Kind Lore Segal and Director and KT2 Melissa Hacker will lead a post-screening discussion at Bet Am Shalom synagogue in White Plains, New York.
- [Holocaust Consciousness, German Jewish Refugees and the Civil Rights Struggle in Post-War America](https://kindertransport.org/events/holocaust-consciousness-german-jewish-refugees-and-the-civil-rights-struggle-in-post-war-america/) - Dr David Jünger, DAAD Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sussex, affiliated with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, will explore the participation of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Presented by The Second Generation Network, in conjunction with the Wiener Library.
- [My Heart in a Suitcase](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-heart-in-a-suitcase/) - The play for young audiences based on the book by longtime KTA member Anne Fox. A discussion with Kinder, members of the Florida chapter of the KTA, will follow the play. Parker Playhouse 707 Northeast 8th Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 954.462.0222
- [Discussion Group: Visiting the camps](https://kindertransport.org/events/discussion-group-visiting-the-camps/) - The Second Generation Network in London asks Have you visited the death camps or considered doing so? A chance to share your thoughts on and or experiences of visiting the death camps. An informal discussion group for Second and Third Generations and an opportunity to share your thoughts. No need to book, but it would
- [KTA Luncheon New York City](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-luncheon-new-york-city/) - All KTA members and families, Kind, Kt2s, KT3's, KT4's are welcome to attend this annual luncheon. Whether you live in the greater NY area, or are just passing through, please join us! A short film "Weapons of Conspiracy - how a French Protestant Community Rescued Thousands of Jewish Children During World War II" will be
- [My Dear Ones, One Family and the Final Solution, and Second Generation Network Annual General Meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-dear-ones-one-family-and-the-final-solution-and-second-generation-network-annual-general-meeting/) - Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg will talk about the writing of his latest book, My Dear Ones, which sets the lives of five of his relatives in the context of the Final Solution. This is followed by discussion,light refreshments and the Second Generation Network AGM. Places are free, but for security reasons it is essential to book
- [Discussion Group: Writing the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/events/discussion-group-writing-the-holocaust/) - Have you written about the Holocaust and its impact on your family, or are you considering doing so? What has been the effect of writing or reading the writings of others? A chance to share your thoughts. There is no need to book, but it would be helpful to have an idea of numbers. Rsvp
- [Childhood Left at the Station: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/childhood-left-at-the-station-a-tribute-to-the-children-of-the-kindertransport/) - This exhibit highlights 10 of the 10,000 children (kinder) who traveled on Kindertransports from Nazi-occupied territories to Great Britain and other countries, including Switzerland and Sweden, between December 1938 and September 1939. Most of the rescued children never saw their families again. KTA Southern California Chapter Chair Rachel Rubin-Green is organizing a Kinder and families
- [The Pianist of Willesden Lane in Washington DC](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-pianist-of-willesden-lane-in-washington-dc/) - The Pianist of Willesden Lane Based on the book The Children of Willesden Lane By Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen Lisa Jura becomes one refugee among almost 10,000 children who were brought to England for safety by the Kindertransport mission just as World War II began. Despite the devastating personal loss of separation from her
- [KIndertransport music concert, Lincoln, UK](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-music-concert-lincoln-uk/) - Composers Robert Steadman and Hannah Borrill have created a “concert documentary” telling the story of the Kindertransport in words, song and music, incorporating traditional music alongside specially composed new work. The piece follows the lives of the children in Germany and Czechoslakia: the effect of Kristallnacht, the journeys across Europe and how they settled into
- [80 years after Kristallnacht: A Personal Commemoration of the Kindertransport.](https://kindertransport.org/events/80-years-after-kristallnacht-a-personal-commemoration-of-the-kindertransport/) - A presentation by KT2 Monique Vajifdar Monique Vajifdar was born in London and has lived in South Africa since 1985. Her Mother, Hedwig Leonore Vajifdar (nee Feig) was born in Berlin in 1927. In April 1939, she left Berlin on the Kindertransport and settled in London. DONATION: R90.00 (including refreshments) VENUE: Clive M Beck Auditorium,
- [1939 - 1940: The shifting policy of British internment and deportation of German and Austrian Jewish refugees to the Isle of Man, Canada and Australia](https://kindertransport.org/events/1939-1940-the-shifting-policy-of-british-internment-and-deportation-of-german-and-austrian-jewish-refugees-to-the-isle-of-man-canada-and-australia/) - In conjunction with the Wiener Library, Roger Kershaw from The National Archives and Naomi Levy from The Second Generation Network will consider: Why were German and Austrian Jewish refugees interned? Why were so many deported out of the country? The invaluable family and political research resource that is The National Archives will be discussed. The
- [IF THEY COME FOR ME IN THE MORNING: Town Hall Forums On the Legacy of State Sponsored Xenophobia](https://kindertransport.org/events/if-they-come-for-me-in-the-morning-town-hall-forums-on-the-legacy-of-state-sponsored-xenophobia/) - In recent years, the last generation of witnesses to two very different events - Japanese American Incarceration Camp Survivors, and Holocaust Survivors – have voiced concerns that have much in common. Political rhetoric that vilifies people on the basis of ethnicity or religion have conjured past episodes of state-sponsored xenophobia. What can those survivors tell
- [Memories of the Kindertransport -Jewish Museum London](https://kindertransport.org/events/memories-of-the-kindertransport-jewish-museum-london/) - “Memories of the Kindertransport” is an exhibition and program of engagement commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransports. The exhibition centers on the stories of six former Kindertransport refugees who continue to work with us today. It brings together their memories and reflections through new filmed testimony and objects from our museum collection to enable
- [WFJCSHD, KTA, GSI Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/wfjcshd-kta-gsi-conference/) - The 2018 conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida. The KTA invites all Kinder and descendants to join us there! For details and to register, go to the KTA conference page We look forward to reuniting with the KTA family in Florida.
- [Staged Reading of Kindertransport play](https://kindertransport.org/events/staged-reading-of-kindertransport-play/) - Kindertransport By Diane Samuels A Staged Reading Directed by Deborah Lavine, featuring Jane Kaczmarek and Kate Burton. Presented by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, CA. The performance celebrates the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport and a portion of proceeds will benefit the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
- [80 Years On: Commemoration of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/80-years-on-commemoration-of-the-kindertransport/) - At a central London venue, there will be a commemoration for those who arrived on the Kindertransport, their descendants, the foster families who took in children, faith communities and charities to recognise the heroic efforts of those who helped rescue 10,000 children on the eve of the Second World War. Hosted by Kind Lord Alf
- [Frankfurt Kindertransport Book Launch](https://kindertransport.org/events/frankfurt-kindertransport-book-launch/) - Presentation and discussion of new book on the history of the Kindertransports from Frankfurt am Main. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Adickesallee 1 60322 Frankfurt am Main E-Mail exilarchiv-veranstaltungen@dnb.de www.dnb.de
- [Memorial Concert for the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/memorial-concert-for-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-kindertransport/) - The Wiener Library is delighted to announce details of a special memorial concert to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. The concert will take place in the beautiful sanctuary of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, on 22 November 2018, one day after the official anniversary of the Kindertransport debate in Parliament. A
- [“A Thousand Kisses” Kindertransport – Sanctuary80 Exhibition](https://kindertransport.org/events/a-thousand-kisses-kindertransport-sanctuary80-exhibition/) - A brand-new exhibition “A Thousand Kisses|” focusing on the arrival of the Kindertransport into Harwich, and the experience of the children staying at the Dovercourt Holiday Camp in 1938-39. Produced in partnership with the Wiener Library in London, discover more about the lives of the Kinder in Britain and their journeys to make a new
- [Kinder Talk: Bernd Koschland - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/kinder-talk-bernd-koschland-london/) - Bernd Koschland, one of the Kinder featured in the exhibition at the Jewish Museum, discusses how his experiences as a Kindertransport refugee has impacted on his faith. Bernd was eight years old when he arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport and how he maintained and developed his Jewish faith during and after the war. This
- [Forum: 1938 in retrospect - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/forum-1938-in-retrospect-london/) - This joint Second Generation Network event with the Wiener Library and the Jewish Museum is part of the commemorations to mark the 80th anniversaries of Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. A panel of historians, Professor Mary Fulbrook, Professor Nicholas Stargardt and Dr Jennifer Craig Norton, will explore the significance of events 80 years ago, and consider
- [Sanctuary 80 Talks Series - Harwich, UK](https://kindertransport.org/events/sanctuary-80-talks-series-harwich-uk/) - Hear from four speakers about a range of topics exploring the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport refugees at Harwich in 1938 and what it means today. Includes an interactive theatre event, Stage 3, by Peoples Palace and Safe Passage’s National Campaign. Tickets £5 Adult, under 21 free. Tickets through Eastern Angles
- [World Kindertransport Day commemoration Los Angeles](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-los-angeles/) - The Southern California KTA Chapter World Kindertransport Day commemoration will take place at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park on Sunday, December 2nd. Visit the "Childhood Left at the Station" exhibit and share your Kindertransport stories with KTA members and LAMOTH visitors. At 3 pm, Hilda Fogelson will speak to
- [KTA NYC World Kindertransport Day Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-nyc-world-kindertransport-day-commemoration/) - The Kidertransport Association hosts a gathering for Kinder and the next generations. For details: Kindertransport1@gmail.com
- [CURATOR’S TOUR: Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/events/curators-tour-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-6/) - Join us on a tour of Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s. Co-presented by Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute Tickets: $10 adults; $5 seniors, students; free for YUM members
- [The Kindertransport: 80 Years Later](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-80-years-later-2/) - Join the Kupferberg Holocaust Center for a special discussion with local Holocaust Survivors who were on the Kindertransport as they share their individual experiences before, during, and after the War. Musical interludes on the theme of “Refugees” will be performed by The Astoria Music Project. They explore the music of composers who have made America
- [KTA Chanukah party in Florida](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-chanukah-party-in-florida/) - The Florida chapter of the KTA hosts an annual Chanukah party! Registration required, email for details.
- [Curators tour KINDERTRANSPORT – RESCUING CHILDREN ON THE BRINK OF WAR](https://kindertransport.org/events/curators-tour-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war/) - Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s. Explore the children’s difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through personal stories, artifacts and engaging media. Ticket Info: $10
- [KT 80 Symposium- London](https://kindertransport.org/events/kt-80-symposium-london/) - The Kindertransport 80 Years On: Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research and Historiography The 80th anniversary of the scheme that permitted over 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish, children to enter the UK in 1938-39 seems a fitting time to approach a new, critical assessment of the Kindertransport and its origins, rationales, enactment and outcomes. Venue: Institute of
- [Curators tour KINDERTRANSPORT – RESCUING CHILDREN ON THE BRINK OF WAR](https://kindertransport.org/events/curators-tour-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-2/) - Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s. Explore the children’s difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through personal stories, artifacts and engaging media. Ticket Info: $10
- [Manny Lindenbaum Speaks](https://kindertransport.org/events/manny-lindenbaum-speaks/) - Kindertransportee and activist Manny Lindenbaum speaks as part of the Survivor Speaks Series at Brookdale Community College Brookdale Community College 765 Newman Springs Road Lincroft, NJ 07738 United States Room Number: Twin Lights I & II Building Number: Student Life Center
- [Curators tour KINDERTRANSPORT – RESCUING CHILDREN ON THE BRINK OF WAR](https://kindertransport.org/events/curators-tour-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-3/) - Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s. Explore the children’s difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through personal stories, artifacts and engaging media. $10 general; $5
- [Curators tour KINDERTRANSPORT – RESCUING CHILDREN ON THE BRINK OF WAR](https://kindertransport.org/events/curators-tour-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-4/) - Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s. Explore the children’s difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through personal stories, artifacts and engaging media. Ticket Info: $10
- [The Kindertransport, 80 Years Later](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-80-years-later/) - The New School's College of Performing Arts, the New School for Social Research, The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, and the KTA present 3 Days of Performance, Thought, and Discussion in Remembrance of the Kindertransports. Events include panel discussions, film screening and discussion, and the New York City Premiere of Last Train to Tomorrow,
- [Remembering and Rethinking: The international forum on the Kindertransport at 80](https://kindertransport.org/events/remembering-and-rethinking-the-international-forum-on-the-kindertransport-at-80/) - The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) will bring together scholars, educators, policy makers, journalists, refugees and survivors to mark the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport. Sessions will emphasize emerging research and discussions about its legacy today. Kinder will have an opportunity to connect with one another and share their own experiences. Priority places are being
- ['My Heart in a Suitcase' at Thomas Edison and Roosevelt Intermediate Schools](https://kindertransport.org/events/my-heart-in-a-suitcase-at-thomas-edison-and-roosevelt-intermediate-schools/) - We wanted to create a production that portrays the strength of the human spirit, as in order for Anne Lehman Fox to forge a productive and fulfilling life, she had to survive the unthinkable tragedy of leaving her parents, who were eventually captured and killed in concentration camps, when she was only 12 years old,
- [Curators tour KINDERTRANSPORT – RESCUING CHILDREN ON THE BRINK OF WAR](https://kindertransport.org/events/curators-tour-kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-5/) - Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s. Explore the children’s difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through personal stories, artifacts and engaging media. 15 West 16th
- [Child Separation and Refugee Crises from the Kindertransport to Today](https://kindertransport.org/events/child-separation-and-refugee-crises-from-the-kindertransport-to-today/) - Mark Hetfield, CEO of HIAS, and Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the New School's Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and the former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, discuss the history of popular opposition to refugees and how it has impacted children. NPR international correspondent Deborah Amos will moderate. The Leo Baeck Institute, 15 West
- [NYC KTA Spring Lunch](https://kindertransport.org/events/nyc-kta-spring-lunch/) - The New York City Chapter of the KTA gathers for a meal and discussion of the January 2019 Symposium, The Kindertransport 80 Years On:Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research and Historiography.
- [Lore Segal book launch](https://kindertransport.org/events/lore-segal-book-launch/) - Kind Lore Segal is welcomed for a celebration of new book, The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing. From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for “a voice unlike any other” (Cynthia Ozick) and a style both “wry and poignant” (The New Yorker), Lore
- [The Kindertransport Journey Trip](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-journey-trip/) - KTA Members of all generations are invited to join an intimate (20 people maximum) trip loosely following the Kindertransports' trip to safety. We will start in Vienna, travel by train to Berlin, then Amsterdam, Hook of Holland where we will board the ferry to Harwich and travel by train to London. Special tours and unique
- [Meg Waite Clayton launches The Last Train to London](https://kindertransport.org/events/meg-waite-clayton-launches-the-last-train-to-london/) - Meg Waite Clayton lanches her new historical novel, The Last Train to London, about the Kindertransports and Truus Wijsmuller, with appearances and readings across the USA.
- [The Kindertransport, Contesting Memory    Book launch - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-contesting-memory-book-launch-london/) - Book launch and illustrated talk by author Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton. Craig-Norton emphasises the use of archival sources, many of them newly discovered, testimonial accounts and letters from Kinder. This documentary evidence allows compelling insights into interactions between children, their parents and caregivers and shows readers a more nuanced and complete picture of the Kindertransport. Free,
- [Who will Tell the Stories of the Holocaust when the Survivors no Longer Can? -London](https://kindertransport.org/events/who-will-tell-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-when-the-survivors-no-longer-can-london/) - Second Generation Network members Lesley Urbach and Fred Weil will share their presentations and experiences of researching and presenting their relatives' stories as part of Holocaust education and memorialisation. A chance to see how use can be made of different materials, and for you to be inspired to use your own family’s materials and stories.
- [World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-federation-of-jewish-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-descendants-conference-3/) - The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D) will hold our 31st Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC, November 1-4, 2019, at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel. The Kindertransport Association (KTA) will join the conference, as will members of Generations of the Shoah International (GSI).
- [KTA gathering in Seattle](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-gathering-in-seattle/) - Seattle KTA members host an evening with KTA President and KT2 Melissa Hacker, who will talk about the Kindertransport journey trip that took place this summer during the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransports, and present video of The Kindertransport 80 Years On: a 2019 symposium in London that showcased current research on the Kindertransports.
- [KTA gathering Palo Alto](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-gathering-palo-alto/) - The NorCal KTA Chapter hosts an afternoon with KTA President and KT2 Melissa Hacker, who will discuss commemorations held during the 80th year of the Kindertransports, and the present and future of the KTA.
- [KTA gathering Berkeley, California](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-gathering-berkeley-california/) - The NorCal KTA Chapter host a lunch with KTA President and KT2 Melissa Hacker, who will discuss commemorations held during the 80th year of the Kindertransports, and the present and future of the KTA.
- [Siblings: How do we React to our Heritage? - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/siblings-how-do-we-react-to-our-heritage-london/) - This Second Generation discussion group looks at the reactions within families towards their Holocaust heritage. Many of us may have noticed that even among siblings the response to our heritage differs considerably. The Wiener Holocaust Library 29 Russell Square London WC1B 5DP
- [A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport, Los Angeles](https://kindertransport.org/events/a-tribute-to-the-children-of-the-kindertransport-los-angeles/) - In commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the first Kindertransport Michele Gold discusses her book, Memories That Won't Go Away, which tells the stories of many of the children, including Gold's mother. The talk is followed by a panel discussion with Michele Gold, Rita Sinder and Paul Kester, Kindertransportees from Germany & Austria, and Judy
- [Los Angeles KTA gathering](https://kindertransport.org/events/los-angeles-kta-gathering/) - The SoCal KTA chapter hosts an evening with KTA President and KT2 Melissa Hacker, who will discuss commemorations held during the 80th year of the Kindertransports, and present video of The Kindertransport 80 Years On: a 2019 symposium in London that showcased current research on the Kindertransports. Temple Beth Am 1039 S. La Cienega Blvd,
- [Children under the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/events/children-under-the-nazis/) - A member of the Second Generation Professor Nicholas Stargardt, will explore his research into the impact of Nazism on children during the Holocaust. Using sources from the time, ranging from welfare and medical files, to diaries, letters and children’s drawings, he will shed light on their lives by focusing on their play and other activities.
- [Council of Holocaust Educators Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/council-of-holocaust-educators-conference/) - Listen to the Children: Voices from the Kindertransport Dr. Jennifer Craig-Norton, Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. Stephen Feinberg,former Special Assistant for Education Programs in the National Institute for Holocaust Education at USHMM. Manny Lindenbaum survived the Holocaust as a Kindertransportee. Student Life Center Brookdale Community College
- [World Kindertransport Day Gathering, New York](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-gathering-new-york/) - KTA members in the tri-state, greater NYC area will gather to remember, meet with friends old and new, learn about the KTA's many activities over this past 80th commemorative year, and more. Details soon
- [KT2 Jonathan Tel book launch - New York](https://kindertransport.org/events/kt2-jonathan-tel-book-launch-new-york/) - KT2 and wonderful writer Jonathan Tel is reading from his new book, Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao, at Word bookstore in Brooklyn!
- [Holocaust Memorial Day theme: Stand Together - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/holocaust-memorial-day-theme-stand-together-london/) - This Second Generation Network discussion group meeting looks at the HMD theme for 2020. What is the meaning of the concept Stand Together in the context of HMD? What is the significance of the idea for those of us with a Holocaust heritage? Please rsvp via email The Wiener Holocaust Library 29 Russell Square London
- [Standing Together: How One Synagogue saved Children's Lives - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/standing-together-how-one-synagogue-saved-childrens-lives-london/) - Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton will present research of never before studied archives that offers unique insight into the work of the ‘Hospitality Committee’ which sponsored individual children and supported their settlement in the UK. An exhibition of images from the Archive will be on display. The talk will be followed by a short memorial service and
- [The Forgotten Exiles - Jewish Refugee Domestics in Britain, 1938 - 1945 - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-forgotten-exiles-jewish-refugee-domestics-in-britain-1938-1945-london/) - Although over twice as many refugees from Nazism came to Britain on so-called Domestic Visas than via the Kindertransports, this subject has received far less attention. Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton will give a fascinating talk about her research into this neglected subject. The Wiener Holocaust Library 29 Russell Square London WC1B 5DP
- [Book Talk with Dr. Jennifer Craig-Norton](https://kindertransport.org/events/book-talk-with-dr-jennifer-craig-norton/) - “The Plight of Refugee Children: Then and Now,” Jennifer Craig-Norton’s talk on her book, The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory, will benefit the Central Valley Holocaust Educators’ Network. Craig-Norton’s Kindertransport research findings offer parallels to the migrant child-parent separation issues of today and provide valuable lessons. The event includes a talk, dessert and book signing. $18 with
- [Fictionalising the Shoah - Jewish Book Week London](https://kindertransport.org/events/fictionalising-the-shoah-jewish-book-week-london/) - The Second Generation Network is sponsoring this event. ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.’ But despite Theodor Adorno's dictum dramatising the Holocaust has become a trend, in both books and film. Should the Holocaust, the nadir of humanity, be fictionalised? When we do dramatise the suffering, how should we approach it, and should any
- [Discussing the Holocaust with Subsequent Generations - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/discussing-the-holocaust-with-subsequent-generations-london/) - This Network discussion group meeting for members of the Second and Third Generations, looks at the subject of discussing the Holocaust with subsequent generations. When is the right time? What is the right age, the best way? Which books, films or other media have worked? to attend, please contact: ginaburgesswinning@secondgeneration.org.uk. The Wiener Holocaust Library 29
- [Writing the Holocaust Workshop - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/writing-the-holocaust-workshop-london/) - Second Generation Network is holding a writing workshop at the Wiener Holocaust Library. The author Nick Barlay (Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival Through War, Holocaust and Revolution) will lead one group. The second will be led by Professor Erika Hagelberg, who is currently writing the history of her German Jewish family. Places are limited &
- [Conference: Approaching the History of Internment: Reconsiderations of Wartime Britain and Beyond: Retrospective & contemporary examinations - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/conference-approaching-the-history-of-internment-reconsiderations-of-wartime-britain-and-beyond-retrospective-contemporary-examinations-london/) - This Event Has Been Cancelled Second Generation Network is one of the organisations organising this 3-day conference on internment to mark 80 years since enemy aliens, including refugees from Nazi-Germany and Austria, began to be interned after the start of World War II. We will reflect on the policy and & impact of the mass
- [The Kindertransport's Rescuers and Rescued: A Second-Generation Conversation](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransports-rescuers-and-rescued-a-second-generation-conversation/) - Join online for a fascinating conversation about the Kindertransport and its legacy with • Barbara Winton, daughter of rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton, who died in 2015 at the age of 106 • Amanda Susskind, Regional Director, ADL LA, whose father, Charles Susskind, was one of “Winton’s Children” • Michele Gold, LAMOTH Museum Board Chair, daughter
- [Kindersang - Songs from the poetry of a Kindertransport survivor](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindersang-songs-from-the-poetry-of-a-kindertransport-survivor/) - Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin was inspired to write a song cycle after she recently met 97 year old poet and Kindertransport survivor, Lotte Kramer. Amanda Boyd (Soprano) and Emily Daggett Smith (violin) will perform the US premiere of eleven songs written by Gribbin, inspired by Kramer’s touching and revealing poetry. Gribbin’s work has been described
- [Museum of Jewish Heritage Yom HaShoah Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/museum-of-jewish-heritage-yom-hashoah-commemoration/) - We come together as a community online to say: we will never forget. This year’s commemoration for Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day will be a virtual event honoring the memory of those who perished at the hands of evil, and paying tribute to those who survived and have made a better world for us
- [Remembering & Rethinking: The International Forum on the Second Generation - London](https://kindertransport.org/events/remembering-rethinking-the-international-forum-on-the-second-generation-london/) - Rscheduled for Fall 2020 This AJR Conference will take place at Stamford Bridge, London, in partnership with Chelsea Foundation.Sessions will explore a wide range of issues relating to the theme of Second Generation and the future of Holocaust remembrance. Topics include history, psychology, identity, genealogy, archives, legacy and memorialisation. The KTA President is an invited
- [Zikaron Online: 2nd Generation Testimony](https://kindertransport.org/events/zikaron-online-2nd-generation-testimony/) - KT2 Peter Rosen will speak about his mother's experience on the Kindertransport, living with a foster family in England, serving in the British military, and making aliyah to Israel before eventually moving to Canada. Zikaron Online: 2nd Generation Testimony is hosted by Ophir tal, The Israeli Shaliach (Emissary) in The 14th Street Y and Downtown
- [Lily Screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/lily-screening/) - A special 99th Birthday showing of Adrienne Gruben’s short documentary about Lily Renee, a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna. There will also be a discussion with the director. View with Chrome browser on computer for best results. https://cya.live/event/909
- [Eva Hesse Film Screening](https://kindertransport.org/events/eva-hesse-film-screening/) - Now though Sunday May 31, the wonderful documentary film on artist and Kindertransport survivor Eva Hesse is streaming, free, on the Hauser & Worth gallery website. Definitely worth a watch.
- [Liberation 75 - Has been postponed](https://kindertransport.org/events/liberation-75-has-been-postponed/) - In 1945, Jewish and other victimized groups were liberated from Nazi tyranny. 75 years later, Liberation 75 marks this important anniversary by remembering the victims, honouring the survivors, showcasing the future of Holocaust education, reflecting on antisemitism in the world, celebrating the role of the liberators, and committing to protecting freedom, diversity, human rights and
- [The KTA New York Spring Gathering](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kta-new-york-spring-gathering/) - The annual Greater New York KTA Spring gathering will be rescheduled when it is safe. We are planning a get together for greater New York area KTA members. Lunch will be served, a film will be screened. Details to come.
- [Descendants of the Holocaust 75 years after the liberation](https://kindertransport.org/events/descendants-of-the-holocaust-75-years-after-the-liberation/) - Eva Fogelman, eminent psychologist and pioneer in the treatment of the psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their descendants working primarily in the US, in conversation with Gaby Glassman, psychologist and psychotherapist who has facilitated second generation groups in the UK and abroad since the 1980’s. This panel was originally included in the
- [We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope](https://kindertransport.org/events/we-are-here-a-celebration-of-resilience-resistance-and-hope/) - 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,
- [AJR Online Book Club with Ariana Neumann](https://kindertransport.org/events/ajr-online-book-club-with-ariana-neumann/) - 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 Island of Extraordinary Captives](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-island-of-extraordinary-captives/) - 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
- [The Kindertransport in National and Transnational Perspective](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-kindertransport-in-national-and-transnational-perspective/) - 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
- [Thomas Harding in conversation with David Herman](https://kindertransport.org/events/thomas-harding-in-conversation-with-david-herman/) - 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 &
- [LBI Book Club, Vol III: Her First American by Lore Segal](https://kindertransport.org/events/lbi-book-club-vol-iii-her-first-american-by-lore-segal/) - 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
- [Haunted by Shadows? Jonathan Lichtenstein in conversation with Gaby Koppel](https://kindertransport.org/events/haunted-by-shadows-jonathan-lichtenstein-in-conversation-with-gaby-koppel/) - 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
- [World Kindertransport Day Commemoration](https://kindertransport.org/events/world-kindertransport-day-commemoration-4/) - Suzanne Goldsmith, who was on the first Kindertransport from Austria, and David Meyerhof, whose mother was on the Kindertransport from Germany, will present a program commemorating World Kindertransport Day-the 75th Anniversary of the Kindertransports. Burbank,CA the Burbank Media Mall, 2nd floor, next to Burlington Coat Factory. For more info, contact David Meyerhof, 818-261-2060 or dmeyerhof@yahoo.com
- [KTA Hanukkah Candle LIghting](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-hanukkah-candle-lighting/) - On the fourth night of Hanukkah, we will gather KTA member families together virtually and light our candles and say our Hanukkah blessings and sing Hanukkah songs together. There will be two sessions 7pm EST and 7pm PST
- [Inside the (Acid-Free) Box](https://kindertransport.org/events/inside-the-acid-free-box/) - The Holocaust Museum LA presents A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Stories from the Kindertransport. At any one time, only a small percentage of our artifact collection is on exhibit in our Museum’s galleries. In this program, you can open the locked door of our archive for an exclusive peek at some of the artifacts in our
- [KT2 Virtual Gathering](https://kindertransport.org/events/kt2-virtual-gathering/) - KT2 Gale Halpern is hosting a KT2 social! Pull up a chair, a cup of tea, and chat with KT2s from around the USA and the world. Note that this is an unfacilitated social time.
- [Harwich Kindertransport Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/events/harwich-kindertransport-memorial/) - The AJR hosts a talk by Mike Levy on the KIndertransport Memorial that he is developing in Harwich, where the ferries carrying many of the Kindertransport children landed. To join the zoom presentation: https://ajr-org-uk.zoom.us/j/83231043711#success
- [The Second and Third Generation. The Experiences of the Descendants of Refugees from National Socialism Conference](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-second-and-third-generation-the-experiences-of-the-descendants-of-refugees-from-national-socialism-conference/) - Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exiles Studies, IMLR, University of London It has long been recognised that the experiences of refugees from National Socialism has had an impact on their children and grandchildren. This conference will explore this and will focus on the relationship between the generations as well as
- [Sir Nicholas Winton website launch](https://kindertransport.org/events/sir-nicholas-winton-website-launch/) - Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 and died on 1st July 2015 aged 106. He was known for organising the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before war broke out in 1939. His daughter Barbara Winton has curated a new website about his life and will present,
- [The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton](https://kindertransport.org/events/the-last-train-to-london-by-meg-waite-clayton/) - Bestselling Los Angeles-based author Meg Waite Clayton will talk about her acclaimed novel The Last Train to London. This historical novel tells the dramatic story of Truus Wijsmuller, a little known Kindertransport organizer. Presented by Insider/Outsiders and the AJR To book: http://bit.ly/38ca2bh
- [Invisible Walls: Hella Pick in conversation with Anne McElvoy](https://kindertransport.org/events/invisible-walls-hella-pick-in-conversation-with-anne-mcelvoy/) - To mark the publication of her long-awaited memoirs, Invisible Walls, pioneering journalist Hella Pick CBE, who came to the UK from Austria on a Kindertransport in 1939,speaks with journalist Anne McElvoy The book tells the dramatic story of how she won trust and sometimes the friendship of world leaders and a many remarkable men and
- [Groundwaves: Film as a Medium of Memory; Memory as a Medium of Vision](https://kindertransport.org/events/groundwaves-film-as-a-medium-of-memory-memory-as-a-medium-of-vision/) - KTA President Melissa Hacker is a guest on GroundWaves, a weekly zoom session and podcast of the Sha'ar community. Weaving together beautiful music, deep Torah and transformative wisdom, this weekly online gathering opens up a gate of spiritual fellowship and personal reflection prompted by this unique moment of the pandemic, with a purpose and spirit
- [Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah, Clevaland's virtual commemoration of the Holocaust and heroism](https://kindertransport.org/events/yom-hashoah-vhagvurahclevalands-virtual-commemoration-of-the-holocaust-and-heroism/) - This year's theme is "Rescuers", recognizing the brave individuals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. We are honored to be joined by Barbara Winton, daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. To register: bit.ly/3wtfYXO
- [Bertha Leverton: Creator of Kinder Reunions](https://kindertransport.org/events/bertha-leverton-creator-of-kinder-reunions/) - Bertha's daughter Mirry Reich tells the inspiring story of her mother, Bertha Leverton, who arrived in England from Germany on a Kindertransport at 16 years old. Bertha is sometimes referred to as “the mother of the KTA” as it was at the first Kindertransport Reunion that Bertha created in London in 1989 that Eddy Behredt,
- [Liberation 75 Global Gathering Of Holocaust Survivors, Descendants, Educators & Friends](https://kindertransport.org/events/liberation-75-global-gathering-of-holocaust-survivors-descendants-educators-friends/) - This event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust will be VIRTUAL, WORLDWIDE and FREE to attend: The KTA will host a program May 6,10am The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants hosts a program May 4, 4pm Keynote speakers & breakout sessions Holocaust survivor virtual “lounges”
- [Becoming Dr. Ruth](https://kindertransport.org/events/becoming-dr-ruth/) - Becoming Dr. Ruth chronicles the life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, from her early years fleeing Nazi Germany, living as an orphan in Switzerland, time as a sharpshooter in the Israeli armed forces, and her life and career in New York. It is a humorous and heartfelt portrait detailing Dr. Ruth's remarkable journey to become a
- [KTA Online Book Talk - The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-book-talk-the-berlin-shadow-living-with-the-ghosts-of-the-kindertransport/) - Our guest speaker will be KT2 Jonathan Lichtenstein, author of The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport (2020) “A unique and intimate addition to the literature about the Holocaust.” “A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son.”
- [One of Ten Thousand: My Mother's Escape to Freedom on the Kindertransport - An Evening with Linda Mason Waldroup](https://kindertransport.org/events/one-of-ten-thousand-my-mothers-escape-to-freedom-on-the-kindertransport-an-evening-with-linda-mason-waldroup/) - Linda is a retired Contra Costa librarian and is a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She is also co-chair of the Northern California Kindertransport Association. Her mother, Doris Mason, who was born Doris Franzelore Goldschmidt in Germany in 1930, was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K. Linda’s talk will be
- [Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-2/) - The exhibit "Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War" originated in NYC, will be on display at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis July 22-October 31. This exhibit illuminates the story of the Kindertransport and explores the difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through original artifacts, personal stories and engaging media. KTA President Melissa
- [Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna](https://kindertransport.org/events/without-a-home-kindertransports-from-vienna/) - The exhibition is devoted to Viennese children who were sent abroad without their parents from winter 1938 to the start of World War II in autumn 1939. The children who escaped to countries that were later invaded by the Nazis were once again caught up in the deadly persecution and in some cases failed to
- [KTA Online Book Talk - All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-online-book-talk-all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days-the-true-story-of-the-american-woman-at-the-heart-of-the-german-resistance-to-hitler-2/) - Writer Rebecca Donner was a teenager when her grandmother thrust a fistful of old letters into her hands and said, One day you must tell Mildred’s story. Mildred Harnack is Rebecca Donner’s great-great-aunt: the only American in the leadership of the German resistance in Berlin. A born-and-bred Midwesterner hailing from Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was a
- [KTA Hanukkah Gathering](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-hanukkah-gathering-2/) - On the last night of Hanukkah, we will gather KTA member families together virtually and light our candles and say our Hanukkah blessings and sing Hanukkah songs together.
- [KTA Membership Meeting](https://kindertransport.org/events/kta-membership-meeting-2/) - KTA Members gather together virtually to ask questions of the KTA Board, learn what's been going on and is being planned, and elect new members to the 2022 KTA Board.
- [Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/events/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war/) - The exhibit "Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War" originated in NYC, will be on display at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis July 22-October 31. This exhibit illuminates the story of the Kindertransport and explores the difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through original artifacts, personal stories and engaging media. KTA President Melissa

## Resources

- [My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-knees-were-jumping-remembering-the-kindertransports/)
- [The Kindertransport in Context: Eva Paddock’s Story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-in-context-eva-paddocks-story/)
- [A German Holocaust Survivor Steps Into the Box](https://kindertransport.org/resources/5337/)
- [Gerald Holton](https://kindertransport.org/resources/gerald-holton/)
- [Interview with Gerald Holton, winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities](https://kindertransport.org/resources/interview-with-gerald-holton-winner-of-the-frontiers-of-knowledge-award-in-the-humanities/)
- [Kindertransport - Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, with Lucy Lang and Josef Eisinger](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-with-lucy-lang-and-josef-eisinger/)
- [Holocaust Memorial 2026](https://kindertransport.org/resources/holocaust-memorial-2026/)
- [NSW JBD Kristallnacht Commemoration 2025](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nsw-jbd-kristallnacht-commemoration-2025/)
- [Taste the Nation with Ruth Zimbler](https://kindertransport.org/resources/taste-the-nation-with-ruth-zimbler/)
- [Cooking with Ruth Zimbler](https://kindertransport.org/resources/cooking-with-ruth-zimbler/)
- [Jews Forbidden! - Eva Kugler Remembers The 1938 Kristallnacht Pogrom](https://kindertransport.org/resources/jews-forbidden-eva-kugler-remembers-the-1938-kristallnacht-pogrom/)
- [Remembering the November Pogrom](https://kindertransport.org/resources/remembering-the-november-pogrom/)
- [2025 Summer Survivor Speaker Series: Bert Romberg](https://kindertransport.org/resources/2025-summer-survivor-speaker-series-bert-romberg/)
- [Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-5/)
- [Fit, bright, not too Jewish - Kindertransport policy for which children to save from the Nazis revealed](https://kindertransport.org/resources/fit-bright-not-too-jewish-kindertransport-policy-for-which-children-to-save-from-the-nazis-revealed/)
- [New Insights into the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/new-insights-into-the-kindertransport/)
- [Historians uncover new details of how thousands of Jewish children fled Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/resources/historians-uncover-new-details-of-how-thousands-of-jewish-children-fled-nazis/)
- [LBI Presents: A Podcast with Mark Oppenheimer from the Leo Baeck Institute](https://kindertransport.org/resources/lbi-presents-a-podcast-with-mark-oppenheimer-from-the-leo-baeck-institute/)
- [Felix Weil  To England on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/felix-weil-to-england-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [Werner Rothschild: I felt like an American from day one](https://kindertransport.org/resources/werner-rothschild-i-felt-like-an-american-from-day-one/)
- [German and Austrian War Children In The Netherlands](https://kindertransport.org/resources/german-and-austrian-war-children-in-the-netherlands-2/)
- [Escaping the Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/resources/escaping-the-nazis/)
- [Lord Alf Dubs, politician and campaigner](https://kindertransport.org/resources/lord-alf-dubs-politician-and-campaigner/)
- [A hundred years of curiosity](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-hundred-years-of-curiosity/)
- [Ruth Morley and Lore Segal, Kindertransport Survivor Artists on Film Film Screening and Conversation with Director Melissa Hacker](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ruth-morley-and-lore-segal-kindertransport-survivor-artists-on-film-film-screening-and-conversation-with-director-melissa-hacker/)
- [Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War - Speacial Exhibition Opening](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war-speacial-exhibition-opening/)
- [Stolpersteine](https://kindertransport.org/resources/stolpersteine/)
- [Shattered Crystals](https://kindertransport.org/resources/shattered-crystals/)
- [The rescue of Jewish Children Before, During & After the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-rescue-of-jewish-children-before-during-after-the-holocaust/)
- [AJR International Forum on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ajr-international-forum-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [Helena Bonham Carter Reveals the Fascinating History Behind New ‘One Life‘ Film](https://kindertransport.org/resources/helena-bonham-carter-reveals-the-fascinating-history-behind-new-one-life-film/)
- [Kindertransport: A Journey to Life](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-a-journey-to-life/)
- [Jewish Children Evacuated From Germany I WW2: I Was There](https://kindertransport.org/resources/jewish-children-evacuated-from-germany-i-ww2-i-was-there/)
- [Open Hearts, Open Home: A Story of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/open-hearts-open-home-a-story-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [Kindertransport - Rescuing Children on the Brink of War](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-rescuing-children-on-the-brink-of-war/)
- [THE KINDERTRANSPORT AND REFUGEES](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-and-refugees/)
- [Kindertransport: Saving refugee children?](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-saving-refugee-children/)
- [HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR THRIVES IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF LOVE](https://kindertransport.org/resources/holocaust-survivor-thrives-in-an-atmosphere-of-love/)
- [The Kindertransport to Great Britain - Stories from North Rhine-Westphalia](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-to-great-britain-stories-from-north-rhine-westphalia/)
- [Kindertransport from North Rhine-Westphalia](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-from-north-rhine-westphalia/)
- [Dunera & Queen Mary Association](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dunera-queen-mary-association/)
- [Dunera: Stories of internment](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dunera-stories-of-internment/)
- [Dunera Boys](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dunera-boys/)
- [The Dunera and Queen Mary: Internees and Their Stories](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-dunera-and-queen-mary-internees-and-their-stories/)
- [Kitchener Camp](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kitchener-camp/)
- [The 1938 Kindertransport saved 10,000 children but it’s hard to describe it as purely a success](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-1938-kindertransport-saved-10000-children-but-its-hard-to-describe-it-as-purely-a-success/)
- [Kindertransport: Two Burbank Residents Recall the Rescue of Jewish Children](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-two-burbank-residents-recall-the-rescue-of-jewish-children/)
- [From kindergarten to Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/from-kindergarten-to-kindertransport/)
- [Prince Charles Meets Jewish Refugees on the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/prince-charles-meets-jewish-refugees-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [The Kindertransport Exhibition: Opening Remarks](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-exhibition-opening-remarks/)
- [From The YIVO archives - One Thousand Children: The Untold Story of the American Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/from-the-yivo-archives-one-thousand-children-the-untold-story-of-the-american-kindertransport/)
- [Claude Kacser‘s One Thousand Children story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/claude-kacsers-one-thousand-children-story/)
- [The One Thousand Children: Their complete story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-one-thousand-children-their-complete-story/)
- [Heimann, Paul](https://kindertransport.org/resources/heimann-paul/)
- [They were saved by strangers - Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/they-were-saved-by-strangers-kindertransport/)
- [Kindertransports and the Lives They Changed: An Interview with](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransports-and-the-lives-they-changed-an-interview-with/)
- ["We were the lucky ones” — The Psychology of Kindertransport Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-were-the-lucky-ones-the-psychology-of-kindertransport-survivors/)
- [Stories of Survival: Melissa Hacker on the Legacy of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/stories-of-survival-melissa-hacker-on-the-legacy-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [“All emigrants are up to the physical, mental, and moral standards required”: A tale of two child rescue schemes](https://kindertransport.org/resources/all-emigrants-are-up-to-the-physical-mental-and-moral-standards-required-a-tale-of-two-child-rescue-schemes/)
- [Live Broadcast - Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial](https://kindertransport.org/resources/live-broadcast-auschwitz-birkenau-memorial/)
- [Edith Stein‘s Niece: What Her Canonization Means for Catholic-Jewish Dialogue](https://kindertransport.org/resources/edith-steins-niece-what-her-canonization-means-for-catholic-jewish-dialogue/)
- [Alfred and Susanne Batzdorff](https://kindertransport.org/resources/alfred-and-susanne-batzdorff/)
- [The UK Holocaust Map](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-uk-holocaust-map/)
- [My Story: Benno Black](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-story-benno-black/)
- ["I've been teaching for 30 years. Right now it's important to talk about the Holocaust because anti-Semitism is growing all over the world," says the daughter of Winton's children](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ive-been-teaching-for-30-years-right-now-its-important-to-talk-about-the-holocaust-because-anti-semitism-is-growing-all-over-the-world-says-the-daughter-of-wintons-children/)
- [Dr. Ruth Saved People’s Sex Lives. Now She Wants to Cure Loneliness.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dr-ruth-saved-peoples-sex-lives-now-she-wants-to-cure-loneliness/)
- [Sel Hubert, Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/sel-hubert-kindertransport/)
- [Ruth and Ellen. KinderTransport at NCC](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ruth-and-ellen-kindertransport-at-ncc/)
- [Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining”](https://kindertransport.org/resources/lore-segal-reads-beyond-imagining/)
- [New Illinois Holocaust museum exhibit sheds light on Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/new-illinois-holocaust-museum-exhibit-sheds-light-on-kindertransport/)
- [THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM: THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-holocaust-in-film-three-minutes-a-lengthening/)
- [A Couple of June Bloomings](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-couple-of-june-bloomings/)
- [Our finest living artist schooled in goodness of the human spirit](https://kindertransport.org/resources/our-finest-living-artist-schooled-in-goodness-of-the-human-spirit/)
- [6 Stories Of The Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/6-stories-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [Dr. Ruth Recalls Kindertransport at New Exhibit in Chelsea](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dr-ruth-recalls-kindertransport-at-new-exhibit-in-chelsea/)
- [The “300 Children Campaign” of 1939](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-300-children-campaign-of-1939/)
- [One Life - European Premiere - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland](https://kindertransport.org/resources/one-life-european-premiere-warner-bros-uk-ireland/)
- [Author Lilly Maier discusses her now book about the impact of meeting a Holocaust survivor as a girl](https://kindertransport.org/resources/author-lilly-maier-discusses-her-now-book-about-the-impact-of-meeting-a-holocaust-survivor-as-a-girl/)
- [Book Talk Andrea Hammel: the Kindertransport - what really happened](https://kindertransport.org/resources/book-talk-andrea-hammel-the-kindertransport-what-really-happened/)
- [Alexander Gordon](https://kindertransport.org/resources/alexander-gordon/)
- [Guest Speaker Ilse Melamid, “Human Rights: Coming to Terms with Historical Justice Through Reparations” Course](https://kindertransport.org/resources/guest-speaker-ilse-melamid-human-rights-coming-to-terms-with-historical-justice-through-reparations-course/)
- [If We Never See Each Other Again – Premiere on JBS](https://kindertransport.org/resources/if-we-never-see-each-other-again-premiere-on-jbs/)
- [Peter F Kurer: an extraordinary life](https://kindertransport.org/resources/peter-f-kurer-an-extraordinary-life/)
- [Letters from Liberators](https://kindertransport.org/resources/letters-from-liberators/)
- [Lore Segal - Bookmarks Conversation with Sandee Brawarsky](https://kindertransport.org/resources/lore-segal-bookmarks-conversation-with-sandee-brawarsky/)
- [Joel Darmstadter‘s story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/joel-darmstadters-story/)
- [World on The Move Exhibit](https://kindertransport.org/resources/world-on-the-move-exhibit/)
- [Audio Series “The Girls“](https://kindertransport.org/resources/audio-series-the-girls/)
- ["Exhibition 'Für das Kind / For the Child" - Launch Event at Ottowa City Hall, October 19, 2022](https://kindertransport.org/resources/exhibition-fur-das-kind-for-the-child-launch-event-at-ottowa-city-hall-october-19-2022/)
- [Remembering: Talking About the Holocaust in the 21st Century](https://kindertransport.org/resources/remembering-talking-about-the-holocaust-in-the-21st-century/)
- [NO LONGER UNIMAGINABLE: A Conversation with Holocaust Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/resources/no-longer-unimaginable-a-conversation-with-holocaust-survivors/)
- [Für das Kind/For the Child – The Story of the Kindertransport Exhibit Launch](https://kindertransport.org/resources/fur-das-kind-for-the-child-the-story-of-the-kindertransport-exhibit-launch/)
- [International Holocaust Survivors Night 2022](https://kindertransport.org/resources/international-holocaust-survivors-night-2022/)
- [The Home Project](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-home-project/)
- [We made no difference - The Rowledge house story - Edie Marcovitch](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-made-no-difference-the-rowledge-house-story-edie-marcovitch/)
- [We were the only complete family to arrive on a Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-were-the-only-complete-family-to-arrive-on-a-kindertransport/)
- [A Family dilemma - Miriam Blumenthal Kindertransport story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-family-dilemma-miriam-blumenthal-kindertransport-story/)
- [We All Came Alone - The Kindertransport story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-all-came-alone-the-kindertransport-story/)
- [Audio Documentary: My Omi](https://kindertransport.org/resources/audio-documentary-my-omi/)
- [Podcast Episode: The Cedar Children](https://kindertransport.org/resources/podcast-episode-the-cedar-children/)
- [Max Reinharz](https://kindertransport.org/resources/max-reinharz/)
- [Interview Peter Weisner](https://kindertransport.org/resources/interview-peter-weisner/)
- [Quakers and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/quakers-and-the-kindertransport/)
- [What They Carried: The Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/what-they-carried-the-kindertransport/)
- [Jewish Relief Efforts and the Evian Conference](https://kindertransport.org/resources/jewish-relief-efforts-and-the-evian-conference/)
- [Student Intern Interview with Anita Weisbord](https://kindertransport.org/resources/student-intern-interview-with-anita-weisbord/)
- [Ilse Melamid about saying goodbye to her parents](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ilse-melamid-about-saying-goodbye-to-her-parents/)
- [Talk with Ilse Melamid](https://kindertransport.org/resources/talk-with-ilse-melamid/)
- [Ephraim and Neumeyer blog written by KT2](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ephraim-and-neumeyer-blog-written-by-kt2/)
- [Stumbling Blocks: A Second-Generation Holocaust Memoir](https://kindertransport.org/resources/stumbling-blocks-a-second-generation-holocaust-memoir/)
- [Active Goodness: The True Story Of How Trevor Chadwick, Doreen Warriner & Nicholas Winton Saved Thousands From The Nazis](https://kindertransport.org/resources/active-goodness-the-true-story-of-how-trevor-chadwick-doreen-warriner-nicholas-winton-saved-thousands-from-the-nazis/)
- ['Closeness' and 'distance' in Holocaust survivors' accounts of mother-child relations](https://kindertransport.org/resources/closeness-and-distance-in-holocaust-survivors-accounts-of-mother-child-relations/)
- [From “unwanted Jew” to “a brighter professional future”: Kinder girls and the nursing profession in wartime Britain](https://kindertransport.org/resources/from-unwanted-jew-to-a-brighter-professional-future-kinder-girls-and-the-nursing-profession-in-wartime-britain/)
- [The resilience of the refugee: how Kindertransport memoirs complicate understandings of “resilience”](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-resilience-of-the-refugee-how-kindertransport-memoirs-complicate-understandings-of-resilience/)
- [The Acculturation of the Kindertransport Children: Intergenerational Dialogue on the Kindertransport Experience](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-acculturation-of-the-kindertransport-children-intergenerational-dialogue-on-the-kindertransport-experience-2/)
- [Kindertransport. Remembering & Rethinking.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-remembering-rethinking/)
- [Kindertransport Survey ‘Making New Lives in Britain’](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-survey-making-new-lives-in-britain/)
- [‘We became British aliens’: Kindertransport refugees narrating the discovery of their parents’ fates](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-became-british-aliens-kindertransport-refugees-narrating-the-discovery-of-their-parents-fates/)
- [I said, „Auf Wiedersehen“](https://kindertransport.org/resources/i-said-auf-wiedersehen/)
- [Footsteps of Memory: Frank Meisler‘ Kindertransport Memorials.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/footsteps-of-memory-frank-meisler-kindertransport-memorials/)
- [History matters… but which one? Every refugee crisis has a context.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/history-matters-but-which-one-every-refugee-crisis-has-a-context/)
- [The Kindertransport: history and memory.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-history-and-memory/)
- [Child refugees forever? The history of the Kindertransport of Britain 1938/39.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/child-refugees-forever-the-history-of-the-kindertransport-of-britain-1938-39/)
- [Contesting the Kindertransport as a “Model“ Refugee Response.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/contesting-the-kindertransport-as-a-model-refugee-response/)
- [Modelling bridges between past and current issues of forced migration: Frank Meisler’s memorial sculpture Kindertransport – The Arrival.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/modelling-bridges-between-past-and-current-issues-of-forced-migration-frank-meislers-memorial-sculpture-kindertransport-the-arrival/)
- [Chemistry & Art: Further Adventures of a Chemist Collector](https://kindertransport.org/resources/chemistry-art-further-adventures-of-a-chemist-collector/)
- [Great House](https://kindertransport.org/resources/great-house/)
- [Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-terror-trauma-and-triumph/)
- [Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-journey-memory-into-history/)
- [Kindertransport Library of the Religious Society of  Friends in Britain](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-library-of-the-religious-society-of-friends-in-britain/)
- [Kindertransport: Tylers Green Hostel for young Jewish Refugees](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-tylers-green-hostel-for-young-jewish-refugees/)
- [My Heart in a Suitcase](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-heart-in-a-suitcase-2/)
- [Nicky's Family](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nickys-family/)
- [Teaching "The Children of Willesden Lane"](https://kindertransport.org/resources/teaching-the-children-of-willesden-lane/)
- [The Children Who Cheated the Nazis: The Story of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-children-who-cheated-the-nazis-the-story-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [The Historical Association Alkmaar](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-historical-association-alkmaar/)
- [Züge ins Leben - Kindertransporte im 2. WK](https://kindertransport.org/resources/zuge-ins-leben-kindertransporte-im-2-wk/)
- [Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-4/)
- [The Convention of Wives](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-convention-of-wives/)
- [Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles](https://kindertransport.org/resources/hollywoods-spies-the-undercover-surveillance-of-nazis-in-los-angeles/)
- [Henry Levy – Unternehmen Kunst](https://kindertransport.org/resources/henry-levy-unternehmen-kunst/)
- [Rooms for Vanishing](https://kindertransport.org/resources/rooms-for-vanishing/)
- [Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ordinary-people-and-extraordinary-evil/)
- [The Legacy of Karen Gershon](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-legacy-of-karen-gershon/)
- [Five Amber Beads](https://kindertransport.org/resources/five-amber-beads/)
- [Arthur and Lilly](https://kindertransport.org/resources/5087/)
- [I Seek a Kind Person](https://kindertransport.org/resources/i-seek-a-kind-person/)
- [Wounds Into Wisdom](https://kindertransport.org/resources/wounds-into-wisdom/)
- [Hollywood's Spies](https://kindertransport.org/resources/hollywoods-spies/)
- [Summons to Berlin](https://kindertransport.org/resources/summons-to-berlin/)
- [Without Let or Hindrance](https://kindertransport.org/resources/without-let-or-hindrance/)
- [Kino and Kinder](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kino-and-kinder/)
- [The Lost Café Schindler](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-lost-cafe-schindler/)
- [Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/whitehall-and-the-jews-1933-1948-british-immigration-policy-jewish-refugees-and-the-holocaust/)
- [What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution?](https://kindertransport.org/resources/what-happened-to-the-children-who-fled-nazi-persecution/)
- [We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-had-to-be-brave-escaping-the-nazis-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success: 1880s - 1980s](https://kindertransport.org/resources/vienna-and-its-jews-the-tragedy-of-success-1880s-1980s/)
- [Uprooted and Replanted: The Memoir of Helmut Heckscher from Hamburg to the Kindertransport to America](https://kindertransport.org/resources/uprooted-and-replanted-the-memoir-of-helmut-heckscher-from-hamburg-to-the-kindertransport-to-america/)
- [Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context: German-Jewish Child Refugees' Accounts of Displacement and Acculturation in Great Britain](https://kindertransport.org/resources/trauma-and-attachment-in-the-kindertransport-context-german-jewish-child-refugees-accounts-of-displacement-and-acculturation-in-great-britain/)
- [Total Recall](https://kindertransport.org/resources/total-recall/)
- [Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders: Beyond the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/throw-your-feet-over-your-shoulders-beyond-the-kindertransport/)
- [The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy: Voices of Those Who Escaped Before the "Final Solution."](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-uprooted-a-hitler-legacy-voices-of-those-who-escaped-before-the-final-solution/)
- [The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-tiger-in-the-attic-memories-of-the-kindertransport-and-growing-up-english/)
- [The Star and the Shamrock](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-star-and-the-shamrock/)
- [Latecomers](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-latecomers/)
- [The Last Train to London](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-last-train-to-london/)
- [The Kindertransport, Contesting Memory](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-contesting-memory/)
- [The Heart Has Reasons: Dutch Rescuers of Jewish Children During the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-heart-has-reasons-holocaust-rescuers-and-their-stories-of-courage/)
- [The Fortunate Ones](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-fortunate-ones/)
- [The English German Girl](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-english-german-girl/)
- [The Children's Train, Escape On The Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-childrens-train-escape-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-children-of-willesden-lane-beyond-the-kindertransport-a-memoir-of-music-love-and-survival/)
- [The Berlin Shadow](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-berlin-shadow/)
- [The Battle of Britishness:  Migrant Journeys, 1685 to the Present](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-battle-of-britishness-migrant-journeys-1685-to-the-present/)
- [The Arrival of Jewish Refugee Children in England 1938-39](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-arrival-of-jewish-refugee-children-in-england-1938-39/)
- [The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-ambiguity-of-virtue-gertrude-van-tijn-and-the-fate-of-the-dutch-jews/)
- [The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-abandonment-of-the-jews-america-and-the-holocaust-1941-1945/)
- [The 10,000 Children That Hitler Missed: Stories From The Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-10000-children-that-hitler-missed-stories-from-the-kindertransport/)
- [Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey](https://kindertransport.org/resources/tehran-children-a-holocaust-refugee-odyssey/)
- [Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered](https://kindertransport.org/resources/still-alive-a-holocaust-girlhood-remembered/)
- [Stella, One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany](https://kindertransport.org/resources/stella-one-womans-true-tale-of-evil-betrayal-and-survival-in-hitlers-germany/)
- [Six from Leipzig: Kindertransport and the Cambridge Refugee Children's Committee](https://kindertransport.org/resources/six-from-leipzig-kindertransport-and-the-cambridge-refugee-childrens-committee/)
- [Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies](https://kindertransport.org/resources/shofar-an-interdisciplinary-journal-of-jewish-studies/)
- [Shedding Skins](https://kindertransport.org/resources/shedding-skins/)
- [Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Stories](https://kindertransport.org/resources/shakespeares-kitchen-stories/)
- [Saving Hanno: The Story of a Refugee Dog](https://kindertransport.org/resources/saving-hanno-the-story-of-a-refugee-dog/)
- [Salt of the Earth: An intergenerational journey of a family's life, heartbreak and triumph before, during and after the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/salt-of-the-earth-an-intergenerational-journey-of-a-familys-life-heartbreak-and-triumph-before-during-and-after-the-holocaust/)
- [Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/rescuing-the-children-the-story-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [Remember Me: A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain](https://kindertransport.org/resources/remember-me-a-search-for-refuge-in-wartime-britain/)
- [Part of the Family, Christadelphians and the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/part-of-the-family-christadelphians-and-the-kindertransport/)
- [Other People's Houses](https://kindertransport.org/resources/other-peoples-houses/)
- [Nuremberg and Beyond: The Memoirs of Sigfried Ramler from 20th Century Europe to Hawaii](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nuremberg-and-beyond-the-memoirs-of-sigfried-ramler-from-20th-century-europe-to-hawaii/)
- [Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nothing-makes-you-free-writings-by-descendants-of-jewish-holocaust-survivors/)
- [Non Frangimur: My First Six Decades](https://kindertransport.org/resources/non-frangimur-my-first-six-decades/)
- [Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938-1948](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nightmares-fairy-tale-a-young-refugees-home-fronts-1938-1948/)
- [Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nicky-vera-a-quiet-hero-of-the-holocaust-and-the-children-he-rescued/)
- [Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nicholas-winton-and-the-rescued-generation/)
- [Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945](https://kindertransport.org/resources/never-look-back-the-jewish-refugee-children-in-great-britain-1938-1945/)
- [My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-train-to-freedom-a-jewish-boys-journey-from-nazi-europe-to-a-life-of-activism/)
- [My Heart in a Suitcase](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-heart-in-a-suitcase/)
- [Missing Girls](https://kindertransport.org/resources/missing-girls/)
- [Memories that Won't Go Away: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/memories-that-wont-go-away-a-tribute-to-the-children-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [Lily Renée, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer](https://kindertransport.org/resources/lily-renee-escape-artist-from-holocaust-survivor-to-comic-book-pioneer/)
- [Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/lifesaving-letters-a-childs-flight-from-the-holocaust/)
- [Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy](https://kindertransport.org/resources/learning-to-die-in-miami-confessions-of-a-refugee-boy/)
- [Last Waltz in Vienna: The Rise and Destruction of a Family: 1842-1942](https://kindertransport.org/resources/last-waltz-in-vienna-the-rise-and-destruction-of-a-family-1842-1942/)
- [Kindertransport: A Child's Journey](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-a-childs-journey/)
- [Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-3/)
- [If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/resources/if-its-not-impossible-the-life-of-sir-nicholas-winton/)
- [I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/i-am-a-star-child-of-the-holocaust/)
- [Hitler's Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America](https://kindertransport.org/resources/hitlers-exiles-personal-stories-of-the-flight-from-nazi-germany-to-america/)
- [Her First American](https://kindertransport.org/resources/her-first-american/)
- [Good-bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/resources/good-bye-marianne-a-story-of-growing-up-in-nazi-germany/)
- [Getting Here: From a Seat on a Train to a Seat on the Bench](https://kindertransport.org/resources/getting-here-from-a-seat-on-a-train-to-a-seat-on-the-bench/)
- [Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/resources/generation-exodus-the-fate-of-young-jewish-refugees-from-nazi-germany/)
- [Full Circle: A young boy's escape from Nazi Germany and his reunion with Family](https://kindertransport.org/resources/full-circle-a-young-boys-escape-from-nazi-germany-and-his-reunion-with-family/)
- [Flight of the Maidens](https://kindertransport.org/resources/flight-of-the-maidens/)
- [Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946](https://kindertransport.org/resources/flight-from-the-reich-refugee-jews-1933-1946/)
- [Flight and Refuge: Reminiscences of A Motley Youth](https://kindertransport.org/resources/flight-and-refuge-reminiscences-of-a-motley-youth/)
- [Finding Sophie](https://kindertransport.org/resources/finding-sophie/)
- [Farewell to Prague](https://kindertransport.org/resources/farewell-to-prague/)
- [Faraway Home](https://kindertransport.org/resources/faraway-home/)
- [Far to Go](https://kindertransport.org/resources/far-to-go/)
- [Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/escaping-the-nazis-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [Don't Wave Goodbye: The Children's Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dont-wave-goodbye-the-childrens-flight-from-nazi-persecution-to-american-freedom/)
- [Dancing on a Powder Keg: The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in The Lengthening Shadow of Hitler's Third Reich, Her Poems from the Theresienstadt Ghetto](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dancing-on-a-powder-keg-the-intimate-voice-of-a-young-mother-and-author-her-letters-composed-in-the-lengthening-shadow-of-hitlers-third-reich-her-poems-from-the-theresienstadt-ghetto/)
- [Children’s Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/childrens-exodus-a-history-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany](https://kindertransport.org/resources/between-dignity-and-despair-jewish-life-in-nazi-germany/)
- [Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors](https://kindertransport.org/resources/children-of-the-holocaust-conversations-with-sons-and-daughters-of-survivors/)
- [Between Fear & Hope: Jewish Youth in the Third Reich](https://kindertransport.org/resources/between-fear-hope-jewish-youth-in-the-third-reich/)
- [Baumgartner's Bombay](https://kindertransport.org/resources/baumgartners-bombay/)
- [Austerlitz](https://kindertransport.org/resources/austerlitz/)
- [And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain](https://kindertransport.org/resources/and-in-the-vienna-woods-the-trees-remain/)
- [All in a Lifetime](https://kindertransport.org/resources/all-in-a-lifetime/)
- [A Transported Life: Memories of Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-transported-life-memories-of-kindertransport/)
- [A Stranger in the Family](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-stranger-in-the-family/)
- [A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-scholars-tale-intellectual-journey-of-a-displaced-child-of-europe/)
- [Danger On My Doorstep: The Anita Flora Powitzer Story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/danger-on-my-doorstep-the-anita-flora-powitzer-story/)
- [A Faraway Island](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-faraway-island/)
- [Homelands: The History of a Friendship](https://kindertransport.org/resources/homelands-the-history-of-a-friendship/)
- [The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-compromise-of-return-viennese-jews-after-the-holocaust/)
- [More Than Any Child Should Know: A Kindertransport Story of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/more-than-any-child-should-know-a-kindertransport-story-of-the-holocaust/)
- [German–Jewish Studies: Next Generations](https://kindertransport.org/resources/german-jewish-studies-next-generations/)
- [Émigré Voices Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 21)](https://kindertransport.org/resources/emigre-voices-conversations-with-jewish-refugees-from-germany-and-austria-yearbook-of-the-research-centre-for-german-and-austrian-exile-studies-21/)
- [The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis-the-true-story-of-the-schoolteacher-who-defied-hitler/)
- [Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Autobiographies](https://kindertransport.org/resources/researchers-remember-research-as-an-arena-of-memory-among-descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-a-collected-volume-of-academic-autobiographies/)
- [Max in the House of Spies](https://kindertransport.org/resources/max-in-the-house-of-spies/)
- [Mahjong At Mara's](https://kindertransport.org/resources/mahjong-at-maras/)
- [Kindertransport: a Rescued Child](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-a-rescued-child/)
- [Margot’s Journey](https://kindertransport.org/resources/margots-journey/)
- [A Cracked River](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-cracked-river/)
- [Broken Homes: Three Kindertransport Poets](https://kindertransport.org/resources/broken-homes-three-kindertransport-poets/)
- [Kindertransport, Before and After, Elegy and Celebration: Sixty Poems, 1980-2007](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-before-and-after-elegy-and-celebration-sixty-poems-1980-2007/)
- [Selected Poems](https://kindertransport.org/resources/selected-poems/)
- [The Phantom Lane](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-phantom-lane/)
- [Turning the Key](https://kindertransport.org/resources/turning-the-key/)
- [Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-2/)
- [Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued - Webinar](https://kindertransport.org/resources/nicky-vera-a-quiet-hero-of-the-holocaust-and-the-children-he-rescued-webinar/)
- [Wiener Library](https://kindertransport.org/resources/wiener-library/)
- [War Story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/war-story/)
- [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum](https://kindertransport.org/resources/united-states-holocaust-memorial-museum/)
- [The Millisle Farm in Co Down](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-millisle-farm-in-co-down/)
- [The Global Directory of Holocaust Museums](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-global-directory-of-holocaust-museums/)
- [The Girl Museum- Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-girl-museum-kindertransport/)
- [The Ephraims and the Neumeyers](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-ephraims-and-the-neumeyers/)
- [The End Of Everything Ever](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-end-of-everything-ever/)
- [The Acculturation of the Kindertransport Children: Intergenerational Dialogue on the Kindertransport Experience](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-acculturation-of-the-kindertransport-children-intergenerational-dialogue-on-the-kindertransport-experience/)
- [Testimony of the Human Spirit](https://kindertransport.org/resources/testimony-of-the-human-spirit/)
- [Tante Truus ist hier!](https://kindertransport.org/resources/tante-truus-ist-hier/)
- [Sir Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/resources/sir-nicholas-winton/)
- [Ruth, A Little Girl's Big Journey](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ruth-a-little-girls-big-journey/)
- [Robert and Eva](https://kindertransport.org/resources/robert-and-eva/)
- [Ralph and Suzanne Samuel StoryCorps](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ralph-and-suzanne-samuel-storycorps/)
- [Quaker Kindertransport histories](https://kindertransport.org/resources/quaker-kindertransport-histories/)
- [Quaker honored among heroes of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/quaker-honored-among-heroes-of-the-holocaust/)
- [Project Jewish Life in Frankfurt](https://kindertransport.org/resources/project-jewish-life-in-frankfurt/)
- [Paul Heimann, A Kind from Vienna, speaks](https://kindertransport.org/resources/paul-heimann-a-kind-from-vienna-speaks/)
- [Millisle, County Down - Haven from Nazi Terror](https://kindertransport.org/resources/millisle-county-down-haven-from-nazi-terror/)
- [Margaret Kahn interview](https://kindertransport.org/resources/margaret-kahn-interview/)
- [Letters From Children on the First Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/letters-from-children-on-the-first-kindertransport/)
- [Leo Baeck Institute Kindertransport Resources](https://kindertransport.org/resources/leo-baeck-institute-kindertransport-resources/)
- [Leo Baeck Institute](https://kindertransport.org/resources/leo-baeck-institute/)
- [Last Train to Tomorrow: The Kindertransport Movement 1938-1939](https://kindertransport.org/resources/last-train-to-tomorrow-the-kindertransport-movement-1938-1939/)
- [Kitchener Camp  Refugees to Britain in 1939](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kitchener-camp-refugees-to-britain-in-1939/)
- [Kindertransports from North Rhine-Westphalia](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransports-from-north-rhine-westphalia/)
- [Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-terror-trauma-and-triumph-2/)
- [Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-memory-identity-and-the-british-jewish-diaspora-2/)
- [Kindertransport: Britain's rescue plan](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-britains-rescue-plan/)
- [KIndertransport Teaching Resources, British National Archives](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-teaching-resources-british-national-archives/)
- [Kindertransport Memory Quilt](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-memory-quilt-2/)
- [Kindertransport Association Oral History Project Interviews](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-association-oral-history-project-interviews/)
- [Judaic Academic and Library Links](https://kindertransport.org/resources/judaic-academic-and-library-links/)
- [Jewish Wikipedia: Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/jewish-wikipedia-kindertransport/)
- [Israel Uncensored: Remembering the Holocaust - From Home](https://kindertransport.org/resources/israel-uncensored-remembering-the-holocaust-from-home/)
- [Interview with Sir Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/resources/interview-with-sir-nicholas-winton/)
- [Interview with Holocaust Survivor Ester Golan, Survivor and Kindertransport Child](https://kindertransport.org/resources/interview-with-holocaust-survivor-ester-golan-survivor-and-kindertransport-child/)
- [Imperial War Museum](https://kindertransport.org/resources/imperial-war-museum/)
- [Ilse and Molly Camis StoryCorps](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ilse-and-molly-camis-storycorps/)
- [Holocaust Memorial Day Trust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/holocaust-memorial-day-trust/)
- [Holocaust Memorial Center](https://kindertransport.org/resources/holocaust-memorial-center/)
- [Holocaust Day: A Haven in Wales](https://kindertransport.org/resources/holocaust-day-a-haven-in-wales/)
- [Holocaust & the Kindertransport: Vera](https://kindertransport.org/resources/holocaust-the-kindertransport-vera/)
- [Hebrew University Jerusalem Holocaust Oral Histories](https://kindertransport.org/resources/hebrew-university-jerusalem-holocaust-oral-histories/)
- [Girl Museum madchen des kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/girl-museum-madchen-des-kindertransport/)
- [German and Austrian War Children In The Netherlands](https://kindertransport.org/resources/german-and-austrian-war-children-in-the-netherlands/)
- [Gerettet Berichte von Kindertransport und Auswanderung nach Großbritannien](https://kindertransport.org/resources/gerettet-berichte-von-kindertransport-und-auswanderung-nach-grosbritannien/)
- [Exploring 20th Century London: Kindertransports](https://kindertransport.org/resources/exploring-20th-century-london-kindertransports/)
- [Escape From the Holocaust 1939](https://kindertransport.org/resources/escape-from-the-holocaust-1939/)
- [Dokin: German and Austrian War Children In The Netherlands](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dokin-german-and-austrian-war-children-in-the-netherlands/)
- [Dig World War 2: The Millisle Farm Story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dig-world-war-2-the-millisle-farm-story/)
- [British Library Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/british-library-jewish-survivors-of-the-holocaust/)
- [BBC Teach: WWII, Nicholas Winton](https://kindertransport.org/resources/bbc-teach-wwii-nicholas-winton/)
- [BBC History Online](https://kindertransport.org/resources/bbc-history-online/)
- [Ballyrolly House, Millisle, Co. Down](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ballyrolly-house-millisle-co-down/)
- [Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR): Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/association-of-jewish-refugees-ajr-kindertransport/)
- [Association of Holocaust Organizations](https://kindertransport.org/resources/association-of-holocaust-organizations/)
- [Anne Frank Guide: The Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/anne-frank-guide-the-kindertransport/)
- [American Jewish History](https://kindertransport.org/resources/american-jewish-history/)
- [All My Loved Ones](https://kindertransport.org/resources/all-my-loved-ones/)
- [Admission of German Refugee Children." U.S. Congress, House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 76th Congress, First Session, 1939](https://kindertransport.org/resources/admission-of-german-refugee-children-u-s-congress-house-committee-on-immigration-and-naturalization-76th-congress-first-session-1939/)
- [Abschied ein Leben Lang- A Life-Long Farewell](https://kindertransport.org/resources/abschied-ein-leben-lang-a-life-long-farewell/)
- [A Thousand Kisses Stories of the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-thousand-kisses-stories-of-the-kindertransport/)
- [Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History](https://kindertransport.org/resources/where-she-came-from-a-daughters-search-for-her-mothers-history/)
- [When Time Ran Out: Coming of Age in the Third Reich](https://kindertransport.org/resources/when-time-ran-out-coming-of-age-in-the-third-reich/)
- [We Were Children Just Like You](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-were-children-just-like-you/)
- [We Came as Children: A Collective Autobiography](https://kindertransport.org/resources/we-came-as-children-a-collective-autobiography/)
- [Vielleicht Habe Ich Glueck Gehabt](https://kindertransport.org/resources/vielleicht-habe-ich-glueck-gehabt/)
- [Verfolgung, Flucht, Rettung  (Persecution, Flight, Rescue): Die Kindertransportet 1938/39 nach Grossbritannien](https://kindertransport.org/resources/verfolgung-flucht-rettung-persecution-flight-rescue-die-kindertransportet-1938-39-nach-grossbritannien/)
- [Unfulfilled Promise - Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Refugee Children in the United States 1934-1935](https://kindertransport.org/resources/unfulfilled-promise-rescue-and-resettlement-of-jewish-refugee-children-in-the-united-states-1934-1935/)
- [Too Young to Remember](https://kindertransport.org/resources/too-young-to-remember/)
- [Time Zones: A Journalist in the World](https://kindertransport.org/resources/time-zones-a-journalist-in-the-world/)
- [Three Lives in Transit](https://kindertransport.org/resources/three-lives-in-transit/)
- [They Found Refuge](https://kindertransport.org/resources/they-found-refuge/)
- [The Salzburg Connection: An Adolescence Remembered](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-salzburg-connection-an-adolescence-remembered/)
- [The Rescue of the Prague Refugees: 1938/39](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-rescue-of-the-prague-refugees-1938-39/)
- [The One I Was](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-one-i-was/)
- [The Ninth of November](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-ninth-of-november/)
- [The Nature of Blood](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-nature-of-blood/)
- [The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens: Germans Who Fought for Britain in the Second World War](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kings-most-loyal-enemy-aliens-germans-who-fought-for-britain-in-the-second-world-war/)
- [The Kindertransport Experience; A Socio-Psychological Study of Attachment, Trauma And Acculturation](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-kindertransport-experience-a-socio-psychological-study-of-attachment-trauma-and-acculturation/)
- [The Girl with Two Suitcases](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-girl-with-two-suitcases/)
- [The Forgotten Kindertransportees: The Scottish Experience](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-forgotten-kindertransportees-the-scottish-experience/)
- [The Emerald Horizon (The Star and the Shamrock Book 2)](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-emerald-horizon-the-star-and-the-shamrock-book-2/)
- [The Children We Remember](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-children-we-remember/)
- [The Boy in the Statue: From Wartime Vienna to Buckingham Palace](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-boy-in-the-statue-from-wartime-vienna-to-buckingham-palace/)
- [The Boy Alone in Nazi Vienna](https://kindertransport.org/resources/the-boy-alone-in-nazi-vienna/)
- [Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/ten-thousand-children-true-stories-told-by-children-who-escaped-the-holocaust-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [Tell Everybody, Tell Everything: The Story of My Family & My Journey](https://kindertransport.org/resources/tell-everybody-tell-everything-the-story-of-my-family-my-journey/)
- [Sunday's Child? A Memoir](https://kindertransport.org/resources/sundays-child-a-memoir/)
- [Still Here: Inspiration From Survivors & Liberators of the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/still-here-inspiration-from-survivors-liberators-of-the-holocaust/)
- [Solomon Schonfeld: His Page in History](https://kindertransport.org/resources/solomon-schonfeld-his-page-in-history/)
- [Sisterland](https://kindertransport.org/resources/sisterland/)
- [Shefford: The Story of a Jewish School Community in Evacuation 1939-1945](https://kindertransport.org/resources/shefford-the-story-of-a-jewish-school-community-in-evacuation-1939-1945/)
- [Searching for Fritzi](https://kindertransport.org/resources/searching-for-fritzi/)
- [Runaway Waltz, A Memoir from Vienna to New York](https://kindertransport.org/resources/runaway-waltz-a-memoir-from-vienna-to-new-york/)
- [Rosa's Child, The True Story of One Woman's Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past](https://kindertransport.org/resources/rosas-child-the-true-story-of-one-womans-quest-for-a-lost-mother-and-a-vanished-past/)
- [Rettet wenigstens die Kinder Kindertransporte aus Frankfurt am Main – Lebenswege von geretteten Kindern](https://kindertransport.org/resources/rettet-wenigstens-die-kinder-kindertransporte-aus-frankfurt-am-main-lebenswege-von-geretteten-kindern/)
- [Rescue Operation for Jewish Children from Nazi Germany. the Kindertransporte of 1938-1939](https://kindertransport.org/resources/rescue-operation-for-jewish-children-from-nazi-germany-the-kindertransporte-of-1938-1939/)
- [Remembering Refugees: Then and Now](https://kindertransport.org/resources/remembering-refugees-then-and-now/)
- [Reconstructing the Past: Refugee Writings on the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/reconstructing-the-past-refugee-writings-on-the-kindertransport/)
- [Postcards to a Little Boy. A Kindertransport Story](https://kindertransport.org/resources/postcards-to-a-little-boy-a-kindertransport-story/)
- [Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land](https://kindertransport.org/resources/pearls-of-childhood-the-poignant-true-wartime-story-of-a-young-girl-growing-up-in-an-adopted-land/)
- [Passages From Berlin: Recollections of Former Students and Staff of the Goldschmidt Schule](https://kindertransport.org/resources/passages-from-berlin-recollections-of-former-students-and-staff-of-the-goldschmidt-schule/)
- [Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941](https://kindertransport.org/resources/paper-walls-america-and-the-refugee-crisis-1938-1941/)
- [Our Lonely Journey: Remembering the Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/our-lonely-journey-remembering-the-kindertransport/)
- [On My Own: Decoding the Conspiracy of Silence](https://kindertransport.org/resources/on-my-own-decoding-the-conspiracy-of-silence/)
- [Not With Silver Spoon](https://kindertransport.org/resources/not-with-silver-spoon/)
- [New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust Living in America](https://kindertransport.org/resources/new-lives-survivors-of-the-holocaust-living-in-america/)
- [My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Berlin](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-german-question-growing-up-in-nazi-berlin/)
- [My Family for the War](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-family-for-the-war/)
- [My Darling Diary, Volume Three](https://kindertransport.org/resources/my-darling-diary-volume-three/)
- [Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism](https://kindertransport.org/resources/mothers-in-childrens-and-young-adult-literature-from-the-eighteenth-century-to-postfeminism/)
- [Mit dem Kindertransport in die Freiheit. Vom Jüdischen Flü zum Corporal O'Brian](https://kindertransport.org/resources/mit-dem-kindertransport-in-die-freiheit-vom-judischen-flu-zum-corporal-obrian/)
- [Men of Vision, Anglo-Jewry's Aid to Victims of the Nazi Regime](https://kindertransport.org/resources/men-of-vision-anglo-jewrys-aid-to-victims-of-the-nazi-regime/)
- [Memory](https://kindertransport.org/resources/memory/)
- [Making Things Better](https://kindertransport.org/resources/making-things-better/)
- [Making An Entrance, the Biography of Gerard Gould](https://kindertransport.org/resources/making-an-entrance-the-biography-of-gerard-gould/)
- [Love Despite Hate: Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Their Adult Lives](https://kindertransport.org/resources/love-despite-hate-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-their-adult-lives/)
- [Living After the Holocaust: Reflections by the Post-war Generation in America](https://kindertransport.org/resources/living-after-the-holocaust-reflections-by-the-post-war-generation-in-america/)
- [Liverpool Street](https://kindertransport.org/resources/liverpool-street/)
- [Little Holocaust Survivors: And the English School That Saved Them](https://kindertransport.org/resources/little-holocaust-survivors-and-the-english-school-that-saved-them/)
- [Little Eden](https://kindertransport.org/resources/little-eden/)
- [Literatur und Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/literatur-und-holocaust/)
- [Letter to Alexander: A Family's Kindertransport Experience](https://kindertransport.org/resources/letter-to-alexander-a-familys-kindertransport-experience/)
- [Kindertransport](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport/)
- [Jews in North Devon During the Second World War: The Escape from Nazi Germany and the Establishment of the Pioneer Corps.](https://kindertransport.org/resources/jews-in-north-devon-during-the-second-world-war-the-escape-from-nazi-germany-and-the-establishment-of-the-pioneer-corps/)
- [Into the Arms of Strangers](https://kindertransport.org/resources/into-the-arms-of-strangers/)
- [Interrupted Journeys, Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich](https://kindertransport.org/resources/interrupted-journeys-young-refugees-from-hitlers-reich/)
- [In My Pocket](https://kindertransport.org/resources/in-my-pocket/)
- [I Didn't Say Goodbye](https://kindertransport.org/resources/i-didnt-say-goodbye/)
- [I Came Alone](https://kindertransport.org/resources/i-came-alone/)
- [Girl in Movement: A Memoir](https://kindertransport.org/resources/girl-in-movement-a-memoir/)
- [From Outside in: Refugees and British Society: An Anthology of Writings by Refugees on Britain and Britishness](https://kindertransport.org/resources/from-outside-in-refugees-and-british-society-an-anthology-of-writings-by-refugees-on-britain-and-britishness/)
- [Double Vision, A Self Portrait](https://kindertransport.org/resources/double-vision-a-self-portrait/)
- [Die leisen Abschiede: Geschichte einer Flucht](https://kindertransport.org/resources/die-leisen-abschiede-geschichte-einer-flucht/)
- [Die Kindertransporte Nach Grossbritannien 1938/39: Exilerfahrungen im Spiegel Lebensgeschichtlicher](https://kindertransport.org/resources/die-kindertransporte-nach-grossbritannien-1938-39-exilerfahrungen-im-spiegel-lebensgeschichtlicher/)
- [Die Kindertransport 1938/39. Rettung und Integration](https://kindertransport.org/resources/die-kindertransport-1938-39-rettung-und-integration/)
- [Diane Samuels' Kindertransport: The Author's Guide to the Play](https://kindertransport.org/resources/diane-samuels-kindertransport-the-authors-guide-to-the-play/)
- [Der olle Hitler soll sterben!: Erinnerungen an den jüdischen Kindertransport nach England](https://kindertransport.org/resources/der-olle-hitler-soll-sterben-erinnerungen-an-den-judischen-kindertransport-nach-england/)
- [Der Jüdische Kindertransport von Deutschland nach England 1938/39](https://kindertransport.org/resources/der-judische-kindertransport-von-deutschland-nach-england-1938-39/)
- [Das Exil der kleinen Leute. Alltagserfahrung deutscher Juden in der Emigration](https://kindertransport.org/resources/das-exil-der-kleinen-leute-alltagserfahrung-deutscher-juden-in-der-emigration/)
- [Dark Clouds Don't Stay Forever: Memoirs of a Jewish German Boy in the 1930s and 1940s](https://kindertransport.org/resources/dark-clouds-dont-stay-forever-memoirs-of-a-jewish-german-boy-in-the-1930s-and-1940s/)
- [Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web](https://kindertransport.org/resources/cruel-world-the-children-of-europe-in-the-nazi-web/)
- [Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/conscience-and-courage-rescuers-of-jews-during-the-holocaust/)
- [Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe](https://kindertransport.org/resources/children-with-a-star-jewish-youth-in-nazi-europe/)
- [Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight From the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/child-of-our-time-a-young-girls-flight-from-the-holocaust/)
- [By the Moon and the Stars](https://kindertransport.org/resources/by-the-moon-and-the-stars/)
- [Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945](https://kindertransport.org/resources/britain-and-the-jews-of-europe-1939-1945/)
- [Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty For Survival From Nazi Terror](https://kindertransport.org/resources/bitter-prerequisites-a-faculty-for-survival-from-nazi-terror/)
- [Between the Lines: Letters from the Holocaust](https://kindertransport.org/resources/between-the-lines-letters-from-the-holocaust/)
- [Anglo-Jewry and the Refugee Children 1938-1945](https://kindertransport.org/resources/anglo-jewry-and-the-refugee-children-1938-1945/)
- [And the Policeman Smiled](https://kindertransport.org/resources/and-the-policeman-smiled/)
- [Almost an Englishman](https://kindertransport.org/resources/almost-an-englishman/)
- [Against All Odds](https://kindertransport.org/resources/against-all-odds/)
- [A Lesser Child](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-lesser-child/)
- [A Great Adventure: The Story of the Refugee Children's Movement](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-great-adventure-the-story-of-the-refugee-childrens-movement/)
- [A Garland For Ashes](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-garland-for-ashes/)
- [A Child Alone](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-child-alone/)
- [A Boy in Your Situation](https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-boy-in-your-situation/)
- [American Jewish History: Frances Perkins and the German-Jewish Refugees, 1933-1940 (Vol. 89, No. 1)](https://kindertransport.org/resources/american-jewish-history-frances-perkins-and-the-german-jewish-refugees-1933-1940-vol-89-no-1/)
- [Kindertransport Memory Quilt](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-memory-quilt/)
- [Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora](https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-memory-identity-and-the-british-jewish-diaspora/)

## Quilt Squares

- [Quilt 5, Square 1](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-5-square-1/) - Celia J. Lee Listen to the recollections of Celia J. Lee
- [Quilt 4, Square 4](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-4-square-4/) - Susanne Batzendorff Listen to the recollections of Susanne Batzendorff
- [Quilt 4, Square 3](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-4-square-3/) - Susanne Batzendorff Listen to the recollections of Susanne Batzendorff
- [Quilt 4, Square 2](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-4-square-2/) - Nina Haberer Listen to the recollections of Nina Haberer
- [Quilt 4, Square 1](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-4-square-1/) - Adrienne Behrendt Listen to the recollections of Adrienne Behrendt
- [Quilt 3, Square 20](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-20/) - Ilse Hertz-Koven Listen to the recollections of Ilse Hertz-Koven
- [Quilt 3, Square 19](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-19/) - Lore Gotthelf Jacobs Listen to the recollections of Lore Gotthelf Jacobs
- [Quilt 3, Square 18](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-18/) - Stephen, Eva & Peter Kollisch Listen to the recollections of Stephen, Eva & Peter Kollisch
- [Quilt 3, Square 17](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-17/) - Eva Hirschberger Listen to the recollections of Eva Hirschberger
- [Quilt 3, Square 16](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-16/) - Felix Huttrer Listen to the recollections of Felix Huttrer
- [Quilt 3, Square 15](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-15/) - Felix Huttrer Listen to the recollections of Felix Huttrer
- [Quilt 3, Square 14](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-14/) - Ruth Wassermann Segal Listen to the recollections of Ruth Wassermann Segal
- [Quilt 3, Square 13](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-13/) - Helga Shepard Listen to the recollections of Helga Shepard
- [Quilt 3, Square 12](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-12/) - Gerry Grossmann Listen to the recollections of Gerry Grossmann
- [Quilt 3, Square 11](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-11/) - Robert Sugar Listen to the recollections of Robert Sugar
- [Quilt 3, Square 10](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-10/) - Rita Glanz Listen to the recollections of Rita Glanz
- [Quilt 3, Square 9](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-9/) - Nicholas Winton Listen to the recollections of Nicholas Winton
- [Quilt 3, Square 8](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-8/) - Susan Burrill Listen to the recollections of Susan Burrill
- [Quilt 3, Square 7](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-7/) - Lottie Nathan Listen to the recollections of Lottie Nathan
- [Quilt 3, Square 6](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-6/) - Marianne Elsley Listen to the recollections of Marianne Elsley
- [Quilt 3, Square 5](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-5/) - Gerard Friedenfeld Listen to the recollections of Gerard Friedenfeld
- [Quilt 3, Square 4](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-4/) - Anne L. Fox Listen to the recollections of Anne L. Fox
- [Quilt 3, Square 3](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-3/) - Karel Gross Listen to the recollections of Karel Gross
- [Quilt 3, Square 2](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-2/) - Hugo Marom (Meisl) Listen to the recollections of Hugo Marom (Meisl)
- [Quilt 3, Square 1](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-3-square-1/) - Nicholas Winton Listen to the recollections of Nicholas Winton
- [Quilt 2, Square 20](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-20/) - Eva Levy and Peter Reiche Listen to the recollections of Eva Levy and Peter Reiche
- [Quilt 2, Square 19](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-19/) - Varda Cohen Listen to the recollections of Varda Cohen
- [Quilt 2, Square 18](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-18/) - Henry H. Kahn Listen to the recollections of Henry H. Kahn
- [Quilt 2, Square 17](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-17/) - Lillyan Rosenberg nee Cohn.Haberstadt Listen to the recollections of Lillyan Rosenberg nee Cohn.Haberstadt
- [Quilt 2, Square 16](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-16/) - Helga Newman Listen to the recollections of Helga Newman
- [Quilt 2, Square 15](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-15/) - Alice Masters nee Eberstark Listen to the recollections of Alice Masters nee Eberstark
- [Quilt 2, Square 14](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-14/) - Kristen Grosz Listen to the recollections of Kristen Grosz
- [Quilt 2, Square 13](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-13/) - Lisa Saretzky Listen to the recollections of Lisa Saretzky
- [Quilt 2, Square 12](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-12/) - Gertrude Baron Listen to the recollections of Gertrude Baron
- [Quilt 2, Square 11](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-11/) - Betty Wolkenfeld Hauser Listen to the recollections of Betty Wolkenfeld Hauser
- [Quilt 2, Square 10](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-10/) - Hanna Schwarz nee Klein Listen to the recollections of Hanna Schwarz nee Klein
- [Quilt 2, Square 9](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-9/) - Hedi Levenback Listen to the recollections of Hedi Levenback
- [Quilt 2, Square 8](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-8/) - Lisa Saretzky Listen to the recollections of Lisa Saretzky
- [Quilt 2, Square 7](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-7/) - Henry Lewis Listen to the recollections of Henry Lewis
- [Quilt 2, Square 6](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-6/) - Lisa Saretzky Listen to the recollections of Lisa Saretzky
- [Quilt 2, Square 5](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-5/) - Erika Gorin Listen to the recollections of Erika Gorin
- [Quilt 2, Square 4](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-4/) - Liese Einstein Fischer Listen to the recollections of Liese Einstein Fischer
- [Quilt 2, Square 3](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-3/) - Ilse Herz-Koven Listen to the recollections of Ilse Herz-Koven
- [Quilt 2, Square 2](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-2/) - Hanus Grosz Listen to the recollections of Hanus Grosz
- [Quilt 2, Square 1](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-2-square-1/) - Alice Boddy nee Gruenwald Listen to the recollections of Alice Boddy nee Gruenwald
- [Quilt 1, Square 20](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-20/) - Ursula Meyer nee Eichmann Listen to the recollections of Ursula Meyer nee Eichmann
- [Quilt 1, Square 19](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-19/) - Edith Mesch Reisfeld Listen to the recollections of Edith Mesch Reisfeld
- [Quilt 1, Square 18](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-18/) - Ron & Ora Gordon Listen to the recollections of Ron & Ora Gordon
- [Quilt 1, Square 17](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-17/) - Shun L Chen Listen to the recollections of Shun L Chen
- [Quilt 1, Square 16](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-16/) - Adrienne Behrendt Listen to the recollections of Adrienne Behrendt
- [Quilt 1, Square 15](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-15/) - Ilse F. Camis (Gross) Listen to the recollections of Ilse F. Camis (Gross)
- [Quilt 1, Square 14](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-14/) - Eva Urbach & Ursula Adler (nee Wohl) Listen to the recollections of Eva Urbach & Ursula Adler (nee Wohl)
- [Quilt 1, Square 13](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-13/) - Esther R Starobin Listen to the recollections of Esther R Starobin
- [Quilt 1, Square 12](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-12/) - Josephine Knight nee Eberstark Listen to the recollections of Josephine Knight nee Eberstark
- [Quilt 1, Square 11](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-11/) - Rosemarie Gumpel Listen to the recollections of Rosemarie Gumpel
- [Quilt 1, Square 10](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-10/) - Vera Kittel Listen to the recollections of Vera Kittel
- [Quilt 1, Square 9](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-9/) - Lisa Saretzky Listen to the recollections of Lisa Saretzky
- [Quilt 1, Square 8](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-8/) - Margaret & Kenneth Lowe Listen to the recollections of Margaret & Kenneth Lowe
- [Quilt 1, Square 7](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-7/) - Ruth Amster Meador Listen to the recollections of Ruth Amster Meador
- [Quilt 1, Square 6](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-6/) - Ruth Adler Listen to the recollections of Ruth Adler
- [Quilt 1, Square 5](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-5/) - Olga Levy Drucker Listen to the recollections of Olga Levy Drucker
- [Quilt 1, Square 4](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-4/) - Hanus Grosz Listen to the recollections of Hanus Grosz
- [Quilt 1, Square 3](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-3/) - Berta S. Wesler Listen to the recollections of Berta S. Wesler
- [Quilt 1, Square 2](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-2/) - Hans R. Weinmann Listen to the recollections of Hans R. Weinmann
- [Quilt 1, Square 1](https://kindertransport.org/squares/quilt-1-square-1/) - Kirsten Grosz Listen to the recollections of Kirsten Grosz

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://kindertransport.org/category/uncategorized/)

## Event Categories

- [Museum Exhibits](https://kindertransport.org/events/categories/museum-exhibits/)
- [KTA Book Talks](https://kindertransport.org/events/categories/kta-book-talks/)
- [Speaker](https://kindertransport.org/events/categories/speaker/)
- [KTA Membership event](https://kindertransport.org/events/categories/kta-membership-event/)
- [Public event](https://kindertransport.org/events/categories/public-event/)
- [Survivor Generations event](https://kindertransport.org/events/categories/survivor-generations-event/)

## Types

- [Books](https://kindertransport.org/types/books/)
- [Poetry](https://kindertransport.org/types/poetry/)
- [Articles](https://kindertransport.org/types/articles/)
- [Film/Video/Theater](https://kindertransport.org/types/film-video-theater/)
- [Online Resources](https://kindertransport.org/types/online-resources/)
- [Government Documents](https://kindertransport.org/types/government-documents/)
- [Radio/Podcast](https://kindertransport.org/types/radio-podcast/)

## Genres

- [Fiction](https://kindertransport.org/genres/fiction/)
- [Non-Fiction](https://kindertransport.org/genres/non-fiction/)
- [Memoir](https://kindertransport.org/genres/memoir/)
- [Young Readers](https://kindertransport.org/genres/young-readers/)
- [Related Interests](https://kindertransport.org/genres/related-interests/)

## Quilts

- [Quilt 1](https://kindertransport.org/quilts/quilt-1/) - To listen to the individual Kindertransport memories that accompany each quilt square, click on a square. Some of the voices you hear are those of the actual Kinder who created these quilts.
- [Quilt 2](https://kindertransport.org/quilts/quilt-2/) - To listen to the individual Kindertransport memories that accompany each quilt square, click on a square. Some of the voices you hear are those of the actual Kinder who created these quilts.
- [Quilt 3](https://kindertransport.org/quilts/quilt-3/) - To listen to the individual Kindertransport memories that accompany each quilt square, click on a square. Some of the voices you hear are those of the actual Kinder who created these quilts.
- [Quilt 4 & 5](https://kindertransport.org/quilts/quilt-4-and-5/) - To listen to the individual Kindertransport memories that accompany each quilt square, click on a square. Some of the voices you hear are those of the actual Kinder who created these quilts.