Meg Waite Clayton knew she was writing a novel about the Kindertransports, but she didn’t know whether to focus on the transports out of Vienna or Prague. Clayton had made…
A man of tremendous integrity, loyalty, determination and kindness, Alfred Cotton, 93, of Oakland, California, passed away peacefully at home on July 19, 2019, with his beloved wife of 63…
Just months before the outbreak of the Second World War, 10,000 mostly Jewish children were granted refuge in England. Eighty years later, survivors are retracing a painful journey that is…
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is commemorating 80 years since the Kindertransport with a new display of rare artifacts which belonged to children who escaped Nazi Germany on…
A memorial honouring the escape of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis, organised by Sir Nicholas Winton, has been damaged in an apparently carefully planned attack. The Valediction Memorial at…
The Kindertransport initiative was set up between 1938 and 1939 to rescue nearly 10,000 Jewish child refugees prior to the second world war. This resource explores The Guardian’s coverage of…
Before she became a world-renowned Sex Expert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was 10-year-old Karola Ruth Siegel, one of thousands of Jewish children in Germany saying goodbye to their families for a…
An article in the London Financial Times written by the grandson in a family that took in two German Kinder. The Kinder are KTA members, and the families are still…
Children were admitted on the basis they were easy to ‘Anglicise’, researchers say. Children seeking sanctuary in Britain before the Holocaust were refused the lifeline of the Kindertransport if they…
Bernd Koschland, transported from Bavaria, aged 8 Ten thousand children were evacuated by parents desperate to get them to safety. Acts of commemoration are taking place this week, but as…
MEMORIES of fleeing pre-war Nazi Germany have come flooding back to a Gower pensioner following a royal invitation to visit London. Ellen Davis arrived in Swansea in 1939 as one…
On the 75th anniversary, the Prince of Wales hosted a reception in honor of a few hundred aging Kindertransport participants.The prince spent two hours at the event, which was sponsored…
Nicholas Winton is someone whose life is a worthy subject. He was an English Holocaust rescuer who was the primary moving force behind the Kindertransport program that rescued Czech Jewish…
Nicky’s Family, out July 19, shows how the “British Schindler” saved hundreds of children from Hitler’s forces, including Masters’ own mom. My grandmother’s name was Sidonia, and she lived with…
‘If you look at anyone’s life, it’s pretty crazy. That you don’t end up on the rocks somewhere is just a miracle’ … director Michael Roemer. Photograph: Harold Shapiro. He…
One of the youngest children on the Kindertransport, Paul Alexander leads a successful life; his only regret is that he never hit a six in cricket. Perhaps the true heroes…
Edith Goldberg, Leeds, UK 11-year-old Edith Michel arrived in Leeds with her younger sister Irmgard – both found safe havens with Jewish families. Born in Kaiserslautern on May 13, 1928,…
A refugee from Nazi Germany has published a book for children to counter prejudice against Gypsies. Ruth Barnett, who came here on a Kindertransport from Berlin at the age of…
The 85-year-old former Kindertransport child and Haganah sniper is still talking sex in the media and making waves. By Debra Nussbaum Cohen In the Haaretz newspaper (you must register and…
Hanus Grosz with Kindertransport Quilts For more than five decades, Hanus Grosz did not know the name of the man who saved him from the Nazis. He did not know…