Walter Kohn Nobel laureate and professor emeritus of physics at USCB, KTA member Walter Kohn recalls life under the Austrian Nazi regime, the death of his parents at Auschwitz and…
In the five-year run of Dandelions Flowers and Gifts’ “Eugene’s Favorite Mom” award, there had never been a nomination letter quite like it. Written by brothers Sidney and Kenneth Brown,…
An archivist makes a stunning find after a 60 Minutes story airs about Sir Nick Winton, the Londoner who saved 669 children from the Nazis. Last month, 60 Minutes correspondent…
File photo taken 09 October 2007 shows British Sir Nicholas Winton in backstage of Prague’s Congress Center Hall before a meeting which paid tribute to him. The story of Sir…
Every spring, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, those who died under Nazi persecution are honored in ceremonies throughout the world; and those who survived it recall what they experienced. Anita Weisbord…
“What was the hardest part of your experience during the Kindertransport?” and “How do you feel about Germany today?” are just two of the questions Bordentown Regional Middle School students…
Mona Golabek’s tribute to her mother’s experience in the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that sent Jewish children to Britain prior to WWII, is mesmerizing. The Pianist of Willesden Lane, a…
Now 105, the man who helped more than 600 Jewish children escape the Nazis before the second war war has been hailed as a hero around the world. He tells…
Ruth Moll speaks at the second World Kindertransport Day at the Burbank Town Center on Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Tim Berger / Staff Photographer Kindertransport survivors share their stories. Burbank…
Memorabilia belonging to Inge Joseph on display at the Kindertransport museum in Vienna.. (photo credit:RONEN ZVULUN / REUTERS,RONI GORDON,ROOM NO. 4) After a decade traveling the world, the ‘Für Das…
The late Anne Forchheimer in 2008 with her daughter, Rachel Green. Photo courtesy of Rachel Green Every morning in 1936, Anne Forchheimer would bicycle to school, over a bridge in…
A family picture of Nicholas Winton with one of the hundreds of Jewish children whose lives he saved during World War II. Credit Press Association, via Associated Press Nicholas Winton,…
For the millions watching at home it was an unforgettable In February 1988 on BBC’s That’s Life! a man called Nicholas Winton came face-to-face with some of the 669 Jewish…
…image of the mass evacuation of Jewish children from Hitler’s Germany via the Kindertransport in 1939. The photograph comprises two sisters and another little girl holding a doll, however, they…
…impact of war on children. It has been performed in theaters around the world and is considered a powerful and moving portrayal of the Kindertransport program. Clackamas Community College has…
Celebrated theatre artist, Jeanmarie Simpson, known for her beautifully innovative stagings of Shakespeare, contemporary plays, adaptations, and her own original works, is set to begin rehearsals September 6th in Las…
A new poem by Craig Raine.
Schick’s story begins when she was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1927 to Paul and Charlotte Porges, according to a news release. During the Nazis’ occupation of Austria, her parents…
A memorial is being created for a UK port where thousands of children began arriving after they fled Nazi Germany before World War Two broke out. The Kindertransport to Harwich,…
There has been much talk of Britain’s “noble tradition of looking after refugees” and journalists and politicians have taken the story of the Kindertransport as the defining moment in the…