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….
Nicholas Winton organized the escape of 669 children, mostly Jews, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. After Mr. Winton died on July 1, at age 106, The…
This photo from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was taken in October 1959 at a stop in Livingston, N.J. by photographer Charlotte Kapp….
Recently, Rabbi Goldsmith accompanied some of those refugee children — now elderly adults — to a meeting at Parliament with young Syrian refugees. “These are people in their 80s and…
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the 20,000 Syrians he intends to accept into the UK over the next five years are “the modern-day equivalent of the Kindertransport”.
Orphans of the conflict would be given priority in a programme which Mr Cameron likened to the “modern equivalent of the Kindertransport” scheme, when Britain gave sanctuary to tens of…
Since Hitler had come to power in 1933, Tory-led governments had been doing their utmost to block the rising tide of refugees from Germany – mostly Jewish – from entering…
As Cameron announces England will accept 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020, a former Kindertransport child wonders what happened to the great Britain that saved his life
I once shared a house with a man who shouldn’t have been alive. Karel Reisz, the great British-Czech filmmaker, was a kindertransport child rescued from Hitler’s Europe in the closest…
In 1999, historian David Cesarani went in search of these children for a Radio 4 documentary, to find out how they had adapted to life in Britain, and to the…
Works by celebrated portrait, landscape painter Frank Auerbach who fled Nazi Germany as a child find their way to London’s top art gallery. Frank Auerbach has been described as Britain’s…
A documentary set for release in April 2016 will reveal never-before-seen footage and writings of Eva Hesse, illuminating the short life of the extraordinary artist. From escaping Nazi Germany with…
Ruth Barnett, A Kindertransport refugee reflects on genocide, and what it means in a Europe dealing with advancing Islamophobia and a ‘refugee crisis’. The very least we can and should…
What level of desperation would drive me to flee my home with, or without, my family and leave everything in my life behind? This is a question I think many…