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Lucy Lang

Posted on July 15, 2021

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 about their experience. The Yeshiva University community joins in mourning the loss of an extraordinary, elegant and generous woman

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Livermore Shakespeare Festival presenting live staged reading

Posted on July 12, 2021

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 of Kindertransport children.

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I remember the Gestapo arriving at my house and taking my mother away

Posted on July 10, 2021

From the kindertransports to the arms of JFK, meet the pioneering writer, Hella Pick, that blazed a trail few could follow (subscription required)

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Dr. Ruth trying to get play about her life to Broadway

Posted on June 28, 2021

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 world-famous sex therapist.

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Bea Green, Kindertransport Survivor Honored with MBE

Posted on June 24, 2021

Congratulations to Bea Green, Kindertransport Survivor,friend of the KTA, on her MBE!

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Testimony by Kindertransport and Child Survivor Margot Lobree

Posted on June 21, 2021

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 EDT The program is free and open to the public. To register please go to https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcld-Gsrj0rE9TknwxP737Xu-JTq8TfrT_Y

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My Mother’s Escape to Freedom on the Kindertransport”

Posted on June 19, 2021

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.

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Free Online Course for educators on Kindertransport

Posted on June 17, 2021

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 curated for the course.

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Harwich Kindertransport memorial

Posted on June 10, 2021

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.

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Lore Segal to be inducted in NY State Writers Hall of Fame

Posted on June 4, 2021

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

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Dr. Ruth psyched to see a new Hamptons play on her life

Posted on May 28, 2021

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” — as “a gravestone to my parents who don’t have graves.”

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Reform Judaism says government’s immigration plans breach international law

Posted on May 6, 2021

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,” the movement said on Thursday.

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Statue of unsung hero seen for the first time

Posted on May 4, 2021

Trevor Chadwick, nicknamed the ‘Purbeck Schindler’, helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.

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‘Vitality of Suffolk and Essex cultural life’ shown in Great British Railwa

Posted on May 4, 2021

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 explore the Kindertransport that allowed Jewish refugees to flee the Nazis.

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Kindertransport Association donates to TACT

Posted on April 28, 2021

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 carers.

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Dr. Ruth given honorary doctorate

Posted on April 28, 2021

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.

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Popular events in Harwich given extra funding boost

Posted on April 9, 2021

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 is delighted to be part of this fantastic project.”

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Holocaust Survivor Recounts Escape On Yom Hashoa

Posted on April 9, 2021

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.

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Jewish cartoonists who fled the Nazis

Posted on April 8, 2021

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 through the Kindertransport. Peter Porges created political cartoons for Mad Magazine and the New Yorker. Like Renée, he escaped Vienna through the Kindertransport

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Kindertransport organizer’s kin stresses helping others

Posted on April 8, 2021

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.

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