- Carl Davis: Composer’s Kindertransport homage
https://kindertransport.org/2013/01/carl-davis-composers-kindertransport-homage/
…a children’s choir. But that was the suggestion award-winning conductor and composer Carl Davis made when he was commissioned to write a choral piece for the Halle Orchestra’s children’s choir….
- Riviera Beach Prep Students Commemorate 75th Anniversary of Kindertransport
https://kindertransport.org/2013/11/riviera-beach-prep-students-commemorate-75th-anniversary-of-kindertransport/
The purpose of Student Awareness Day on the Kindertransport was to honor survivors, their parents and the people who saved the lives of 10,000 children. “Our students understood that the…
- London Commemorates World War II Outbreak in Britain
https://kindertransport.org/2009/08/london-commemorates-world-war-ii-outbreak-in-britain/
German Jewish Celia Horwitz was part of the Kindertransport and was evacuated when in England. “Oh, it was so many moves at first and you know people said it must…
- JEC Middle School Remembers
https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/jec-middle-school-remembers-2/
…stories and then used AI technology available on MyHeritage.com to have the survivors’ stories come to life. Seventh graders learned about the Kindertransport. They then created fictitious stories about a…
- Anthony Hopkins Plays a Holocaust Hero in Upcoming Movie About Kindertransport
https://kindertransport.org/2023/09/anthony-hopkins-plays-a-holocaust-hero-in-upcoming-movie-about-kindertransport/
…week. “Do you ever think of the children and what happened to them?” he asks, adding that these people’s stories, their rescue, is “really not about me.” Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ethollg-PI&ab_channel=WarnerBros.UK%26Ireland…
- The KTA Letter regarding unaccompanied child immigrants to the US
https://kindertransport.org/2014/08/the-kta-letter-regarding-unaccompanied-child-immigrants-to-the-us/
…arriving in the United States today receive the respect, protection and support that they require in order to rebuild their lives. To read, download and send the complete letter: https://www.sendspace.com/file/1vxuac…
- RVCC Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies to Hold Virtual Summer Book Series
https://kindertransport.org/2024/05/rvcc-institute-of-holocaust-and-genocide-studies-to-hold-virtual-summer-book-series/
The Raritan Valley Community College Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies will present a virtual Summer Book Series beginning in June. The series, which is free of charge and open…
- Anniversary party for Kindertransport law
https://kindertransport.org/2013/12/anniversary-party-for-kindertransport-law/
Marking the 75th anniversary of the Parliamentary debate that led to their rescue, the event began with a ceremony to rededicate the commemorative plaque unveiled in 1999 in gratitude for…
- Dancing on a Powder Keg: The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in The Lengthening Shadow of Hitler’s Third Reich, Her Poems from the Theresienstadt Ghetto
https://kindertransport.org/resources/dancing-on-a-powder-keg-the-intimate-voice-of-a-young-mother-and-author-her-letters-composed-in-the-lengthening-shadow-of-hitlers-third-reich-her-poems-from-the-theresienstadt-ghetto/
- City of Cambridge Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust
https://kindertransport.org/2022/05/city-of-cambridge-annual-commemoration-of-the-holocaust/
Recalling all who perished during the Holocaust, this year’s virtual program features music, greetings, and remarks from Eva Paddock, who survived the Holocaust by being sent on the “Kindertransport” from…
- KIndertransport play at the Bedford Stage Company
https://kindertransport.org/2017/10/kindertransport-play-at-the-bedford-stage-company/
Playwright Diane Samuels said: “My play does focus on a particular happening at a particular time, yet it also taps into a universal human experience, that of a mother’s separation…
- Shefford: The Story of a Jewish School Community in Evacuation 1939-1945
https://kindertransport.org/resources/shefford-the-story-of-a-jewish-school-community-in-evacuation-1939-1945/
- Six from Leipzig: Kindertransport and the Cambridge Refugee Children’s Committee
https://kindertransport.org/resources/six-from-leipzig-kindertransport-and-the-cambridge-refugee-childrens-committee/
- When Time Ran Out: Coming of Age in the Third Reich
https://kindertransport.org/resources/when-time-ran-out-coming-of-age-in-the-third-reich/
- Community pays tribute to Kinder survivor Otto Deutsch
https://kindertransport.org/2017/01/community-pays-tribute-to-kinder-survivor-otto-deutsch/
Otto Deutsch, a well-known Kindertransport survivor who “never forgot Vienna” after forging a new life in London in 1939 when he was 12 years old, has died at the age…
- VIENNA, 1938: A Child’s View
https://kindertransport.org/voices/voices-of-the-kinder/vienna-1938-a-childs-view/
…“What is the matter? Was I bad? Did I make too much noise, did Frau Brandt come up again?” Papa tells me, “Times are Bad, but it will pass.” In…
- JEC Middle School Remembers
https://kindertransport.org/2023/06/jec-middle-school-remembers/
…on MyHeritage.com to have the survivor’s story come to life. Seventh graders learned about the Kindertransport. They then used their knowledge to create a fictitious story about a child who…
- A New Home
https://kindertransport.org/voices/voices-of-the-kinder/a-new-home/
…then on “comfort food”) steaming under a blanket of brown sugar. A train ride to London followed. Tante Hilde (a friend of my parents) met me and whisked me off…
- Sir Nicholas Winton
https://kindertransport.org/resources/sir-nicholas-winton/
- Wolf Kahn, Who Painted Vibrant Landscapes, Is Dead at 92
https://kindertransport.org/2020/03/wolf-kahn-who-painted-vibrant-landscapes-is-dead-at-92/
…Germany. His father was Jewish, and the rise of Hitler put the family in jeopardy; in 1939 his grandmother arranged for him to be sent to England via Kindertransport. http://www.wolfkahn.com/…
