…Obama. The next morning, Lindenbaum, 84, was interviewed live on Democracy Now!, sharing his personal experiences as a refugee and responding to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s son’s comparison of…
On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, a date that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, 14-year-old Lore Rosen (nee Baron) left for school from the fifth-floor, walk-up apartment…
Hans, centre, with cheeky grin and spotty tie, and his brother Wolfgang, standing second from left. Snapshot: My father with other Kindertransport boys These boys were photographed in 1939 in…
Child refugees sent from the demolished Calais “jungle” to supposedly safe welcome centres across France claim they have been pressed into forced labour. Legal interviews by the charity Safe Passage…
For more than a decade, Holocaust survivor and KTA member Dave Lux has been traveling around Southern California telling people about his experience as one of the 669 children on…
Ruth Westheimer was 10 years old in 1939, when she boarded a train leaving Germany with 300 other Jewish children. She brought along one doll, a favorite named Matilda. But…
She was born Rosel Lerner on May 30, 1922, in Worms, south of Frankfurt. Her parents were immigrants from Poland. In 1938, when the family was living in Ludwigshafen, her…
80 years after he escaped Europe on Kindertransport, Lord Alfred Dubs criticizes new criteria for asylum seekers. Nearly 80 years since he arrived from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Labor politician Lord Alfred…
Mr Deutsch, who lived at Surbiton Avenue, Southchurch, visited schools and various organisations delivering talks about his life and working tirelessly to commemorate and educate people about the Holocaust across…
…on Friday, January 27, for the free event starting at 12.30pm. It is being organised by the South West Dorset Multicultural Network and features several speakers during the hour-long commemoration….
Michael Bibring continues to share the testimony of his late father Harry Bibring who fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport Michael-Bibring-with-students-from-the-school. Pic: HET More than 70 students from a grammar…
Arthur Kern wanted to see his family’s old apartment in Vienna, Austria, where he and his family lived before his parents helped him escape on the kindertransport, an act that…
British-Israeli law student Kinneret Hamburger was on holiday with her family in Israel on October 7 when she was woken up by an air raid siren. She received a message…
…potential rise in anti-foreign and antisemitic sentiments in some sections of the UK electorate. A few days later Chamberlain met with representatives from the Anglo-Jewish community, who had been leading…
King Charles III enjoyed a sweet moment with Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution as children via the British Kindertransport rescue mission as he visited a synagogue in London today….
A SPECIAL refugee week event will take place in Harwich for the first time following the installation of the town’s Kindertransport memorial. The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust said…
92-year old Michael Brown arrived just days before war was declared and worked with Holocaust Educational Trust to tell his story Kristallnacht was a wave of Nazi-coordinated violence against Jews…
…her grandmother and family often at schools and other events, as she believes it can be easier for some people to comprehend the Holocaust through the personal tale of one…
Michael Alexander speaks to Lord Alf Dubs – a child refugee who fled the Nazis before World War Two, becoming an MP, CEO of a refugee charity and member of…
One tiny beacon of hope that emerged during [the World War II] period was the Kindertransport, a train service that took Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution, and rehomed them predominantly…