- Rabbi, Principal, Hero: The story of Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld
https://kindertransport.org/2019/12/rabbi-principal-hero-the-story-of-rabbi-dr-solomon-schonfeld/
…enjoyed beautiful homes and shuls and a special Jewish community, but now, Nazi soldiers marched through Vienna’s streets. Despite the Nazi danger, Rabbi Schonfeld had traveled to Vienna to help…
- Kindertransport Exhibit on Display at the Holocaust Memorial Center
https://kindertransport.org/2019/11/kindertransport-exhibit-on-display-at-the-holocaust-memorial-center/
…University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute. The exhibit opened in New York in November 2018 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of Kindertransport, the operation that rescued…
- Kindertransport Exhibit and Series
https://kindertransport.org/2020/01/kindertransport-exhibit-and-series/
The Jewish Community Center opens a new exhibit, “A Thousand Kisses: Stories of the Kindertransport,” and, along with the Holocaust Education Resource Center of Milwaukee, presents it with several related…
- Ballyrolly House, Millisle, Co. Down
https://kindertransport.org/resources/ballyrolly-house-millisle-co-down/
- British Library Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
https://kindertransport.org/resources/british-library-jewish-survivors-of-the-holocaust/
- Escape From the Holocaust 1939
https://kindertransport.org/resources/escape-from-the-holocaust-1939/
- Israel Uncensored: Remembering the Holocaust – From Home
https://kindertransport.org/resources/israel-uncensored-remembering-the-holocaust-from-home/
- KTA 85th Year Trip Payment Page
https://kindertransport.org/kta-85th-year-trip-payment-page/
…spring Commemorative trip. Please click the registration button below to make your payment. Trip Insurance The KTA strongly urges all participants to purchase travel insurance for coverage…
- German Refugees to Atlanta on U.S. Kindertransport
https://kindertransport.org/2019/11/german-refugees-to-atlanta-on-u-s-kindertransport/
Just months before the earth-shattering tragedy of Kristallnacht occurred in Germany in November 1938, awakening the Jewish community to a new reality, the family of Heinz Birnbrei already knew their…
- RUTH LEON RECOMMENDS… LENORE PIANO TRIO – WIGMORE HALL
https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/ruth-leon-recommends-lenore-piano-trio-wigmore-hall/
…them. Thousands are alive today as a result of his efforts. A recent movie, One Life, tells this moving story. We can still catch a commemorative concert marking the 85th…
- 75 years since the Night of Broken Glass
https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/75-years-since-the-night-of-broken-glass/
…streets,” Neumann recalled. As soon as she arrived at school, her teacher said, “Something horrible happened last night. Your parents have been alerted, and they will come pick you up.”…
- Kindertransport survivor shares harrowing account
https://kindertransport.org/2014/03/kindertransport-survivor-shares-harrowing-account/
…community. Decker, 84 and a Boca Raton resident, was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was one of a group of 50 Jewish children who were sent to Frankfurt by their…
- A Great Adventure: The Story of the Refugee Children’s Movement
https://kindertransport.org/resources/a-great-adventure-the-story-of-the-refugee-childrens-movement/
- Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
https://kindertransport.org/resources/escaping-the-nazis-on-the-kindertransport/
- Faraway Home
https://kindertransport.org/resources/faraway-home/
- Full Circle: A young boy’s escape from Nazi Germany and his reunion with Family
https://kindertransport.org/resources/full-circle-a-young-boys-escape-from-nazi-germany-and-his-reunion-with-family/
- If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton
https://kindertransport.org/resources/if-its-not-impossible-the-life-of-sir-nicholas-winton/
- Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph
https://kindertransport.org/resources/kindertransport-terror-trauma-and-triumph/
- I remember being on the Kindertransport – my journey was easier than that faced by today’s refugees
https://kindertransport.org/2023/12/i-remember-being-on-the-kindertransport-my-journey-was-easier-than-that-faced-by-todays-refugees/
t is a bitter irony that the 85th anniversary of the first Kindertransport should coincide with my most recent visit to the Calais camps, where I witnessed the shocking conditions…
- You Need to Know About This Jewish Lesbian Activist and Holocaust Survivor
https://kindertransport.org/2023/10/you-need-to-know-about-this-jewish-lesbian-activist-and-holocaust-survivor/
Eva was born on Aug. 17, 1925 in Vienna to (what she described in the Smith College Voices of Feminism Oral History Project in 2004) as “a rather typical bourgeois…