GERMANY: ‘Goldschmidts Kinder – Überleben in Hitlers Schatten’ – November 4th, 2013 at 23:30 on ARD Television, Germany. – November 5th, 2013 at 03:25 on ARD Television. – November 7th,…
GVL / Hannah Mico. The main character of “Kindertransport,” Eva, is played by Marllory Caillaud-Jones. For most people, it’s an accepted fact that six million Jews died in concentration camps…
Between 1938 and the outbreak of World War II, thousands of Jewish children living in Germany were sent to Great Britain on the Kindertransport. This move saved them from the…
On the evening of Dec. 2, a group of elderly men and women, some with their children and grandchildren, will gather at a Burbank mall to mark the 75th anniversary…
Performer Mona Golabek (left) chats with Ralph Samuel of Oakland and Ilse Eden of Berkeley. photo/dan pine With anti-Semitism rampant and war looming, Ralph Samuel fled his hometown of Dresden,…
Harry Themal, Deleware News Journal columnist This has been an important year for memorable anniversaries but for this columnist the most important occasion was 75 years ago. That was when…
A video interview is online with Kindertransportee Susanne Weiss Goldsmith and KT2 David Meyerhof. The City of Burbank, CA proclaims December 2, 2013, World Kindertransport Day….
Leo Metzstein, was one of the last of 10,000 Jewish children to flee Germany under the Kindertransport scheme before the war broke out in 1939. Born in Berlin, he was…
Gabrielle Dempsey (Eva) and Paula Wilcox (Lil) The revival of Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport has been prompted by the 75th anniversary of the first arrivals of the kinder, something that has…
Susanne Goldsmith. Goldsmith, 82, was whisked out of Nazi-occupied Vienna with her brother Peter on Dec. 10, 1938 on a Kindertransport. (Photo by John McCoy) Young Susanne and Peter Weiss…
LONDON — The operation was called Kindertransport – Children’s Transport – and it was a passage from hell to freedom. Kristallnacht had just rocked Nazi Germany. The pogroms killed dozens…
Willman, an only child, pictured above holding a copy of her 1939 German passport, arrived from Vienna in April 1939. Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of children…
(Tim Berger / Staff Photographer / December 2, 2013) A group photo of Kinder, with members of the Burbank City Council and the Temple Beth Emet President Ira L. Goldstein…
Kindertransport survivors Harry Heber, Alfred Buechler and Ruth Jacobs (photo credit: BlakeEzraPhotography) LONDON — “It was the festival of Hanukkah. The transports left in the evening… the authorities didn’t want…
Alexander Wilde, now 90 years old. Photo: Glenn Russell, The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press) His father had been taken to Dachau but wrote to tell his mother ‘to get the…
Uli Herzberg at 12 . He was one of about 2000 German Jewish children sent to the Netherlands in the late 1930s to escape the Nazis. He was captured in…
Christiane Amanpour’s story on World Kindertransport Day, the seventy fifth anniversary of the Kindertransports, is viewable online, on youtube….
The Florida Holocaust Museum could not have selected two more appropriate co-chairs for its upcoming “To Life: To Children” gala on Thursday, Feb. 27 in St. Petersburg when it honors…
Marga Forester with her great-grandson, Tapan Parker Wearn, in 2010. Marga Forester, 90, of Wynnewood, a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Nazi Germany to England on the famous Kindertransport, died…
The story of how KTA member Alice Eberstark and her two sisters made it onto one of Winton’s trains is the subject of this week’s 60 Minutes Overtime feature. “Alice…