Short video broadcast on ZDF featuring Kind Bernd Koschland and rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton.
During World War II thousands of children, most of whom were Jewish, had to leave their parents and travel to the UK to escape persecution. Survivors – like Ursula Rosenfield…
Otto Deutsch at the site where his parents and sister were killed Two survivors who experienced first-hand the destruction, intimidation and violence during Kristallnacht give extraordinary accounts of their time…
Johanna Hacker rarely spoke of the day her parents buttoned her into an English-style coat, carefully chosen so she wouldn’t stand out, and waved her off at the railway station…
The concourse and platform of the Bristol railway station was the setting for Suitcase – a play about the first arrival of the Kindertransport in Britain – yesterday. In 1938…
Radio interview on the site specific play “suitcases” being performed at a train station Liverpool in November, 2013. In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of 9-10 November 1938, and…
Notizen aus England: Zug ins Ungewisse Eine Reise ins Ungewisse: Eltern und Kinder wussten nicht, ob sie einander jemals wiedersehen würden. 75 Jahre nach dem ersten Kindertransport erzählen drei Deutsche…
A Berlin-based artists’ collective is pressuring the German government to take in more Syrian asylum seekers. It is supported by two Berlin Jews who survived the Holocaust thanks to asylum…
The Kindertransport Farm in Millisle, Northern Ireland has secured listed status, after leading a long campaign to ensure the historic site was properly protected. Kindertransport Farm is closely linked to…
Vienna will be the home of what organizers are calling the world’s first permanent museum dedicated to the story of the Kindertransport. The memorial museum “For the Child” is set…
THE memories of children rescued from Nazi Germany and brought to Dovercourt more than 75 years ago have been shared with pupils. Five of the children saved as part of…
The Association of Jewish Refugees represented Britain at last week’s inauguration of a Kindertransport statue in Hamburg, Germany. Sir Erich Reich, Andrea Goodmaker and Carol Rossen from AJR were among…
Dubbed the “British Schindler”, Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps from Czechoslovakia as the outbreak of World War Two loomed. His death at the age…
Anita’s passport when she traveled to London, June 1939. COURTESY OF ANITA HOFFER Anita was six when she said good bye to her mom. She was crying on a train…
KTA member Alice Masters is interviewed. Watch online
On 25 November the BBC Home Service broadcast a nationwide appeal for foster homes: and by the end of the year representatives of the MCCG were scouring Germany and Austria…
JOHN KISH IV, MORAVIAN COLLEGE The perpetual question, which has been with me ever since the Kindertransport, is: Why was I saved when so many others perished? Why did that…
Nicholas Winton with one of the 669 children he rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the second world war. Photograph: PA It was long after I arrived on a…
Nicholas Winton deserves all the praise he has received, but when your obituary (2 July) states that he “modestly insisted” that Trevor Chadwick was the real hero, he may well…
Alice Masters, who was a “Winton Kind” remembers….