The story of the 10,000 children is seen as a tale of British compassion, but a new book claims the reality was more nuanced The story of the 10,000 Jewish…
…by the Nazi Party, coming into power as the chancellor of Germany on Jan. 30, 1933, and the Nazi-organized youth movement that followed to indoctrinate young “Aryan” people with Nazi…
…them that I would remember them, even if I were never to come back. I did remember them, and the cherry tree in the garden, the pattern of large flowers…
A Kindertransport boy and his loving wife have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Hermi Rothman arrived in England as a Kindertransport refugee in 1939 and was placed at Gwrych Castle…
It’s not every day a Holocaust victim comes and speaks to us, said Rabbi Noam Silverman, head of Jewish studies at the Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, as he introduced…
At the Imperial War Museum I came across examples of Kindertransport clothing. From October 1938 until August 1939, the British government accepted almost 10,000 unaccompanied refugee Jewish children, escaping Nazi…
…twenties, Renee worked as a comic book artist. Many of the comics she illustrated involved fighting the Nazis she had escaped and on paper she was able to tell the…
…– seeing the risk, this country led by example, using British values to save Jewish lives. But like so much of the history of the Holocaust, it was complex. Because…
by Tom Berman Smelling again the steam train smells soot coming in the window as we cross the landscapes of the Czech lands, woods and rolling fields to Nürnberg of…
Each year the Holocaust Center provides a community program for Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Day of Remembrance. This year’s commemoration, scheduled for May 1 at 4 p.m., will be held…
Davis’ composition, “The Last Train to Tomorrow,” a piece for orchestra, children’s choir and young actors, tells the story of Kindertransport children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The composition recently…
…Survival, then by starring in the book’s celebrated theatrical adaptation, The Pianist of Willesden Lane, presented by Ensemble Theatre Company February 1-18. Mona Golabek stars in ’The Pianist of Willesden…
One of the most interesting things about the coverage of Margaret Thatcher’s death was the revelation that her father, Alderman Roberts of Grantham, took in a Jewish refugee girl and…
…grandchildren. I am excited to embark on this journey and would love to share it with you. Please follow my odyssey at odyssey76.com where we will be uploading daily updates….
…Featuring Kindertransportee Joel Darmstadter March 1, 2023 – October 1, 2025, All Day Lore Segal Exhibit in Vienna February 28, 2024 – January 26, 2025, 10:00 am CET – 12:00…
…Holocaust history that had truly never been explored. With the help of the Simon Wiesenthal Center the KTA began searching for the Kindertransport children who had come to the United…
…member of the Executive Board of KTA. The exhibit The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History is composed of 17 panels (16 are 30″ x 40″; 1 is 20″ x 30″),…
…their allies. The Kindertransport children are child Holocaust survivors. Why is the Kindertransport important? The Kindertransport saved only 10,000 children, a small number compared to the million and a half…
These resources have been compiled by the Kindertransport Association as an effort to make it easier for students, researchers, Kindertransport generations, and all interested parties to locate Kindertransport materials available…
…Rotterdam Quarantine Station. In Memoriam to Norbert and Ignatz Kalter by Kind Lothar Frenkel Kind Lothar Frenkel, the sole survivor of his family, commemorates the lives of two uncles he…