(Photo courtesy of ArtsPower) ‘My Heart in a Suitcase’ will be performed at Thomas Edison and Roosevelt Intermediate Schools Tuesday. While every student in America learns about World War II,…
On May 1st, the Ithaca community will get the chance to hear a firsthand account of one of the most tragic episodes in world history, the Holocaust, from a man…
…hope and denial, all at the same time. Why did you include Stein, the dybbuk, and Berg, the kobold, as Max’s invisible companions? The impetus was, if I’m writing about…
My mother, Anita Heufeld, was one of 10,000 rescued by the Central British Fund for German Jewry. Just short of her 14th birthday, she became an unaccompanied minor, fleeing for…
In the town hall of Fischach, a village in southern Germany, I am staring at a glass display case holding the detritus of the Jews who once lived here. It…
…began working for a bedding company, a move that was to define his entire career in the city. As one family member later recalled: “When they offered him the chance…
…York City came together to establish the Kindertransport Association (KTA – www.kindertransport.org). This unique volunteer-run organization was founded not solely for survivors, but as an intergenerational group with the missions…
…eventually more than 10,000 children — mostly from Jewish families — would arrive in Britain via the same process. Last month marked the 85th commemoration of the Kindertransport. Compared to…
Kingston celebrated interfaith week with a Faith Fest allowing different groups to share their food and artefacts. The week ran until Sunday, November 28, and included a talk by a…
Yom HaShoah and Holocaust Remembrance Week commemorations held in Chicago and Springfield Dr. Heini Halberstam (Champaign-Urbana) brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience when he talked about…
World Jewish Relief is creating an exceptional new cycle challenge to commemorate 80 years since they, as the Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF), orchestrated the Kindertransport and brought…
…a Yiddish journalist and one of the founders of Underground Comix in the late 1960s, Trina Robbins was also a central figure in women’s comics in the 1970s-1990s. The Lily…
The inspiring wartime story of a Devon village and church community which offered sanctuary to Jewish child refugees has been turned into a play. Talaton a Wartime Refuge tells the…
…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….
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…
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…
…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…
…and sound throughout. From Here On not only draws an emotive, tangible understanding of the humanity of refugees but it also demonstrates how the compassion of individuals and communities has…