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…
To cite the kindertransport as evidence of a “noble tradition” of welcoming refugees is to betray the facts and to deceive ourselves. It is quite true that 9,000 Jews came…
…is successful. The sculpture, which could cost £500,000, would commemorate the child refugees who escaped Adolph Hitler’s reign of terror in parts of Europe ahead of the Second World War….
I think we need some refreshment from the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. Let’s forget about them for a few minutes and think about Nicholas Winton instead.
The Labour peer’s EU Withdrawal Bill amendment failed last week. But Kindertransport kid Lord Dubs explains, exclusively in The Big Issue, why he will keep on battling for child refugees…
In an unassuming suburb of Berlin lies a testament to a truly remarkable tale. A temporary exhibition entitled Am Endes des Tunnels (‘At the End of the Tunnels’) commemorates the…
KTA Board member Rachel Rubin Green is featured in the Los Angeles Times for her work with refugees “Family separation and refugee cap reinvigorate Jews’ activist roots: ‘We’ve always been…
The story of the Kindertransport has been well told. But less well known is the story of the 4,000 men – mainly Austrian and German Jews – who were brought…
One school which came to Shropshire early in the war provided a safe haven for Jewish children who had escaped Nazi persecution. A blue plaque on Trench Hall at Tilley…
Kurt Marx, a Kind living in the UK, visits Berlin in the summer of 2019. Video report.
…century. These panels are designed for exhibition in Holocaust Museums and Study Centers, Universities, and Jewish Community Centers. The full set of exhibition panels consists of 17 full color panels…
A Labour peer who fled to Britain on the Kindertransport scheme during the Second World War fought back tears as he made an emotional address to Parliament to commemorate the…
…the House of Commons. The already existing refuge aid committees in Britain switched into high gear, changing focus from emigration to rescue. The British government had just refused to allow…