Mit einem Kindertransport verließ Melamid Wien – mit einer von insgesamt 23 Rettungsfahrten für unter 18-jährige jüdische Kinder von Wien nach London. Juden, Quäker und Christen verschiedener Glaubensbekenntnisse hatten der…
Überlebende der „Kindertransporte“ und Nachkommen auf dem Dach des Bundestags Foto: Michael Jänecke/ Babelphoto Berlin – Die war genau ein Jahr zuvor in einen Zug gestiegen. Gerade elf Jahre alt….
Alfred and Miriam Buechler Alfred Buechler, 87, and wife Miriam, 78, were guests of Prince Charles on Monday to remember the Kindertransport – a rescue mission that brought around 10,000…
Kindertransportees Ann and Bob Kirk meet HRH The Prince of Wales More than 400 now elderly people started new lives in Britain after they were sent from countries including Germany,…
Hundreds gather for Kindertransport reunion A generation of young Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi occupied Europe as children met again for the 75th reunion of the movement that helped them…
Mr Foner has always kept the postcards sent by his father after he was sent to Wales as a child A grandfather has revealed the heartbreaking postcards his father sent…
Old Pupil John Karlick outside the Fulneck Moravian Church, Pudsey, Leeds On boarding a packed train out of Nazi-occupied Prague in June 1939, nine-year-old John Karlik and his younger sister…
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…