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…
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…