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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
…in a Conflict and the Media project, during which they’ve been filming a series of interviews with members of the community who have found their lives torn apart by conflict….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
(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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Production is underway on the biopic, One Life, which tells the story of Nicholas Winton and the Czech Kindertransport….