KTA member Celia Lee is featured in article about the the exhibition Outbreak 1939 at the Imperial War Museum in London. The exhibit looks at the mass evacuation of 2…
Winton re-enactment train arrives in Harwich. Hanna Slome was 14 when she was put on a train from Prague to Harwich in May, 1939. Little did she know it would…
Hana Kleiner, 82, was just 12 when on July 30, 1939, her and sister Sonja, 13, said a tearful goodbye to their parents and boarded a train from Czechoslovakia to…
A Lancashire woman has told of her joy at discovering a youngster who stayed with her family during the war is still alive – after believing he had been dead…
With World War II imminent, a tearful Bob Fantl waved goodbye to his mother and sister in Prague and boarded a train to safety, knowing he might never see them…
Hanna Slome shares her memories with reporter Caroline Tilley Hanna Slome, 84, was 14 when she was put on a Kindertransport train to Harwich by her mother in May 1939….
A previously undiscovered letter relating to the Kindertransport has been found in a house in Manningtree. Doreen Parsons, aged 76, discovered the letter, written on March 10, 1939, in a…
For the past seven years, whenever I have tried to wrestle a stamp or a library card out of my overcrowded wallet, a yellowing and much- folded newspaper cutting has…
On Monday evening, I went to the 80th birthday party of the most dedicated football man I know. Ernest Hecht is the owner-chairman of Souvenir Press, a wonderfully eccentric publishing…
In 1939, Metzger and his brother came to Britain via the Kindertransport. The rest of his family stayed in Germany. His two sisters eventually got out via Sweden. In 1943…
Lunch overlooking the sea at Kibbutz Lavi was a culinary and scenic delight. The religious-Zionist kibbutz in the lower Galilee was established in 1949 by a youth organization from England,…
A WOMAN touched by the help and support she and her mother received from a charity is saying thanks by becoming a volunteer. Marilyn, a medical secretary, from Lisvane, said:…
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us a little more about yourself, Hedy. Talk about your early years in Germany and how you survived the Holocaust. HEDY EPSTEIN: I was born in Germany,…
A woman who lost 60 members of her family in the Nazi holocaust and escaped from Prague on the last children’s train from the city in 1939 will tell her…
Waveney will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with special events to remember the part the district played over 70 years ago. The commemorations begin with a launch event at St Felix…
…overseas in the wake of natural disasters… Given the chaotic state of communications in Haiti right now, a big fear is that some children may be shipped overseas without proper…
From the Uxbridge Gazette: 2,000 children from 33 schools will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in Northwood – the largest in the UK. Ann Kirk, 81, was just 10 when she…
Primary school children from across Liverpool will unite at the Town Hall tomorrow to hear the stories of people affected by the Holocaust. They will meet three women who fled…
A woman who lost more than 65 members of her family in the Nazi Holocaust spoke of her devastating experiences, as part of a national commemoration. Mrs Collins was just…
Harry Bibring, a Holocaust survivor, is visiting The Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre, in Great Dunmow. He will be talking to Year 10 students about his experiences during…