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Pain of broken childhood

Posted on October 29, 2004

Last weekend Kindertransport Survivors gathered in Burlingame to tell their stories. While they shared with each other, they also focused on passing their experiences on to the next generation.    Ilse Lindemeyer said she didn’t speak about her Kindertransport experiences for many years. When she did, it felt like “a dam broke,” and she couldn’t stop telling her story.“Since then I’ve been speaking about it at schools,” she said. “I feel it’s my duty. I want them to know what happened.”

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Obituary of Bill Barazetti

Posted on October 9, 2000

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KTA members interviewed in the New York Times

Posted on February 1, 1999

KTA members Sel Hubert, Robert Sugar, Walter Porges, and Erika Estis tslk about their Kindertransport experiences.

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15 WHO FLED NAZIS AS BOYS HOLD A REUNION

Posted on July 29, 1983

On the grounds of an estate in the English countryside, 15 middle-aged Jewish men from the United States, Canada, Britain and Israel made a pilgrimage Tuesday to pay honor to the woman who rescued them from Germany on the eve of World War II. They had come thousands of miles to thank Dorothy de Rothschild, their benefactor. ”Without her all of us here would have been just a statistic of the Nazi death camps,” said Henry Black of Britain, one of the participants.

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