Since 1943, German and Austrian Holocaust survivors have gathered in New York City for what is known as the Stammtisch…Marion is an elegant woman. Proudly, she still drives her car,…
A WOMAN who escaped from Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport train has died peacefully at the age of 95. Eva Pinthus, a resident of Menston for 60 years, was 14…
An “unsung hero” who helped save hundreds of children destined for Nazi concentration camps is to be honoured with a statue in his hometown. Trevor Chadwick, dubbed the “Purbeck Schindler”,…
Nuremberg, where Henry grew up, was the epicentre of Nazi power. Henry fled Nuremberg in May 1939 after his mum managed to secure him a place on the Kindertransport. “When…
The family of Lore Gordon, who was among the German Jewish children evacuated to Britain on the Kindertransport, have paid tribute to her following her death at the age of…
On the eve of World War II many parents faced an impossible choice: stay with their children as the Nazis closed in, or send them away. More than 10,000 children…
Czech refugees came to live in Beaconsfield, Wendover, Berkhamsted and other places in the area. Some of these escaped through Poland or Hungary and came to England by various routes….
Standing on Cambridge station, a tiny little girl with a shock of dark curls, Suzie Spitzer looked totally bewildered. Just five years old, she was all alone – save for…
The 85-year-old director remembers how Helga and Irene Bejach arrived in August 1939, when he was 15. They stayed with the Attenboroughs for seven years before moving to America. Irene…
National Public Radio interviews James Jacobson, a self-professed serial entrepreneur, who feels many life lessons stem from the lives of his parents, who fled Germany and the Nazis as young…
A Holocaust survivor who escaped to Britain as a teenager has shared his tragic experiences with students at Wallington County Grammar School. Harry Bibring, 83, escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna on a…
Born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1926 to Polish-Jewish parents, Gustav Metzger was evacuated to England with his brother Max/Mendel as part of the Kindertransport in 1939. This overview presented by…
When plans to evacuate civilians from towns and cities were put into action on 31 August 1939, millions of children’s lives were immediately changed. Outbreak 1939 will incorporate the stories…
Ruth Joseph, whose mother was one of 10,000 child refugees who fled Nazi Germany in the kindertransport, wants every child in Wales to read Anne Frank’s diary as part of…
Simon Wessely is an internationally renowned expert on Gulf War illnesses.Director of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, his team’s work has influenced policy on the health of British…
Retired Sheffield teacher Inge Joseph, who came to Britain as a 12-year-old refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, has had a third volume of her memoirs – My Darling Diary – Vol…
PUPILS at a Birmingham school learned first hand about the horrors of the Holocaust when they were visited by a survivor of the Nazis’ efforts to exterminate all Jews during…
More than 75 students listened to Holocaust survivor Walter Kammerling talk about his personal experiences as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Mr Kammerling was among…
Hesse was born in Hamburg in 1936 to a family of observant Jews. At two, she was put on a Kindertransport, first to Holland, then England and finally, in 1939,…
When Celia Lee was evacuated from London to Norfolk at the outbreak of war, it was the second time in less than a year that she had been uprooted. The…