A TALKING bench that plays the testimonies of Kindertransport children has been unveiled in Harwich. The bench has been installed by the Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust in the…
Henny Franks with AJEX Chair Dan Fox Pic: James Manning/PA Wire/PA Images A Holocaust survivor turned Second World War British army stalwart has received medals for her wartime service…
…the British Kindertransport programme. George has now come back to Berlin, in time for the 85th anniversary of the pogroms, to retrace his childhood journey of escape from Nazi Germany….
FAMILY members of Jewish child refugees who arrived in the UK through the Harwich port during the Kindertransport movement in the lead up to the Second World War were welcomed…
Walter Kammerling was among 10,000 Jewish children who fled occupied Europe through the Kindertransport scheme. His sister, mother and father all died at Auschwitz. Over years of speaking at local…
Uncle Richard’s arrest changed everything. A Viennese banker, he had been deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1938, for the crime of being a Jew. Three weeks after Richard’s…
Book by Jonathan Lichtenstein (Little, Brown Spark, nonfiction, on sale Dec. 15) What it’s about: A father and son reconnect and repair their relationship by reliving the elder’s traumatizing experience…
When Abraham Grossman was a teenager, he fled his native Germany on what came to be known as the kindertransport, a rescue effort that brought about 10,000 Jewish children fleeing…
Survivor Ingrid Wuga, who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport at 15 and was honoured by the Queen last year for her services to Shoah education, died in Glasgow at…
Hannah Lessing, secretary general of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, lobbied to include more descendants – for example, of those who left…
Playwright Jonathan Lichtenstein talks to us about his new book, The Berlin Shadow, which describes how he accompanied his father on a journey back to Berlin, retracing the steps he…
David Toren, who fled Poland with other Jewish children, passed away on April 19 as a result of COVID-19. On Kristallnacht, young David watched the destruction. The next morning, his…
Returning to Fränkisch-Crumbach, the village where she grew up in Hesse, Germany, almost 50 years after she had left for Britain on the Kindertransport, Ruth David saw the window of…
L.A. Theatre Works has made the acclaimed plays “Judgement at Nuremberg” and “Kindertransport” available for free via the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust website. Both audio plays will be…
At the end of February, the refugee crisis in Europe boiled over. Thousands flocked to the border between Turkey and Greece, which remained closed to them. The Greek authorities, overwhelmed…
Albert Wachsman was the only child from his town, Saarbrucken in Germany, chosen for the Kindertransport. His two older brothers were in Palestine and his younger brother was hidden on…
Born in 1929, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of the 669 predominantly Jewish children who were evacuated from Prague on one of the eight kindertransport trains organised by Sir Nicholas…
Marion in New York, photo by Stella Schumacher Die in Berlin geborene Marion emigrierte 1939 zunächst mit einem Kindertransport nach London und lebt heute in New York City…
Dame Stephanie Shirley was among thousands of mostly Jewish unaccompanied children, who were sent by their parents to safety in the UK fleeing the rise of the Nazis in Europe….
ARD Vienna|Southern Europe covers the Kindertransport Journey Trip. Radio and video as well as text. Journalist Andrea Beer interviewed travelers in Vienna.