The Providence campus of URI presents “The Holocaust: Women’s Stories — The Will to Survive and Thrive.” It’s not one event but three: two exhibits and one play. The exhibit “My Mother’s Story” is centered on the Kindertransport.
All of us know people who inspire us to do great things. If we are really lucky, we might be able to find a rare individual or two who motivate us by their selfless example of giving without seeking recognition for their efforts. Ilse Meyer was one of those people, and her impact on our community will continue to be felt for many years into the future.
The love story between KTA member Alfred Bader and his wife, Isabel, will be featured on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Valentine’s Day-themed documentary Friday February 13 at 9pm on The Doc Zone. Love Interrupted features the stories of several couples who fell in love when young and then spent several decades separated before finally reuniting later in life.
The Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey is acting as matchmaker, bringing together bar and bat mitzva students with individual survivors, so that the youngsters can talk to and get to know them and learn what happened to them and their families.
Standing on Cambridge station, a tiny little girl with a shock of dark curls, Suzie Spitzer looked totally bewildered. Just five years old, she was all alone – save for a solitary suitcase.
Article in the Coventry Post British newspaper featuring Kinder Susi Bechhofer and Gerda Kerr, who will be attending a Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration with the theme “Stand Up to Hatred.”
Article from the Edinburgh Evening News on Stephen Brent and Walter Bernard, cousins who fled Germany on the same Kindertransport, and met in 2008.
Article in local British newspaper, the Borehamwood and Elstree Times, on Kind and Elstree resident Eric Newman.
Op-ed article in the Jerusalem Post reflecting on the 70th anniversary of the Kindertransports.
Article in Liverpool Daily Post on Liverpool students travelling to London’s Liverpool Street Station to perform a play written by their KT2 tutor to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Kindertransport.
Article in the Yorkshire Post newspaper commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Kindertransport.
Article in the Sunday Times of London on the Kindertransport girls, 10 year old Helga and Irene, aged 12, taken in by the Attenborough family.
Kind Harry Themal writes, in the Deleware News Journal, of his arrival in the US on Thanksgiving Day of 1939.
BBC International Radio interview with Kind Esther Friedman who left Vienna in 1938.
BBC News piece on the Kindertransports, featuring Rolf Penzias from Munich and Harring Bibring from Vienna.
Article from the Harrow Times local newspaper on the 70th anniversary Kindertransport reunion. KTA member Manfred Lindenbaum is featured.
BBC news feature on the 70th Anniversary Kindertransport Reunion.
Article on the Quaker commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Kindertransports.
Article in the Times of London on Kind John Silbermann.
Article in the York Region News, local Canadian newspaper, on Kind John Berrys’ presentation on his 2008 trip to Berlin.