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Manningham house opened up for Kindertransport boys fleeing Nazis

Posted on February 1, 2020

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 to a holiday camp in Dovercourt, Kent, housing 2,000 children. Most would never see their families again.

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Jessica Morden recalls Renate Collins’ escape from Holocaust

Posted on January 31, 2020

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 narrowly escaped the horrors of the Nazis.

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Op-ed: Kindertransport

Posted on January 30, 2020

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.

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My Mother’s Story: A Kindertransport Lunch & Learn

Posted on January 29, 2020

(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.

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From darkness to greatness

Posted on January 28, 2020

Profiles of five prominent Kindertransport successes

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Auschwitz 75: Caller asks listeners to help find him find his father

Posted on January 28, 2020

A caller made a moving appeal to listeners to help him locate his father who was on the Kindertransport in 1939.

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The story of the six-year-old brought to Abercynon to escape Nazi Germany

Posted on January 27, 2020

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 her sister Judis and she never saw her mother, great-grandmother or uncle again.

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Holocaust survivors’ stories ‘could help’ child refugees

Posted on January 27, 2020

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.

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Lord Dubs: ‘The children are counting on us to continue refugee fight’

Posted on January 27, 2020

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

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Islamophobia and antisemitism go hand in hand, warn child refugees of genoc

Posted on January 26, 2020

Kindertransport survivor Vera Schaufeld and Bosnian refugee survivor Safet Vukalic share their testimony in interview with Jewish News ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day

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93-year-old settled in North-East after fleeing Nazis on Kindertransport

Posted on January 24, 2020

A grandmother who settled in northeast England told the story of how she escaped on a Kindertransport at the age of 13.

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Holocaust Survivor Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines to address schoolchildren

Posted on January 23, 2020

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 Wednesday January 29, as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).

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Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld, Hero of the Kindertransport

Posted on January 17, 2020

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.

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Music links pianist to mother’s story of Holocaust survival

Posted on January 10, 2020

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 she later survived the London Blitz.

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Kindertransport Exhibit and Series

Posted on January 8, 2020

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.

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“I felt I wasn’t a person any more, I’d become ‘the Jew’”

Posted on January 7, 2020

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

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Tributes paid to Kindertransport refugee Hermann Hirschberger

Posted on January 2, 2020

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.

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Holocaust survivors honored by UK Queen in New Year’s Honours List

Posted on December 29, 2019

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 occupied countries. They were named as: Ruth Barnett, Leslie Brent, Maria Beate Green, Ingrid Wuga, Marc Schatzberger, and Susie Barnett.

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Tributes to immunologist Leslie Brent, 94, who arrived on first Kindertrans

Posted on December 24, 2019

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

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Kindertransport families to open exhibit at Imperial War Museum

Posted on December 19, 2019

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 came by train to the UK before and after the war

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