Profiles of five prominent Kindertransport successes
Dr. Heini Halberstam, KTA member and retired faculty of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana participated in a post-show discussion following the March 30, 2009 performance of My Heart in…
Holocaust survivor Guy Bishop passed away on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2008. Few people know that he arrested Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi responsible for the mass murder of 6…
Holocaust survivor Felix Weil, 81, tells his life story of survival to Mrs. DiCuirci fifth grade classroom at Xenia Christian School. In the late 1930s, Felix Weil’s life was spared…
Born in Breslau in 1928, Michael was one of 10,000 Jewish children saved from Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport. After immigrating to the U.S., he trained as a musicologist and…
A tribute to KT2 member David Fischer. There are no words to describe the sadness we feel at the death of David, the man behind (among many other projects and…
KURT Gutmann was only a boy when he was spirited away from the horrors of Sobibor to seek refuge among kind strangers in Scotland. But more than seven decades after…
LONDON – British war hero Nicholas Winton, who helped evacuate hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before World War II, will meet on Friday some of the people he…
From the Jerusalem Post, coverage of the Nicky Winton trains.
Brenda Lewis knew when she headed to Prague in late August she was in for a rollercoaster ride of emotion, even though her mode of transport was a train. “I…
…of Jewish children. These youngsters grew up, or spent time during their childhood, in children’s homes. This month, these people have come into the spotlight thanks to Prime Minister Kevin…
Event Details Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 2:00 PM 159 Bayview Ave, Great Neck, NY, 11023 Because Jewish children were targeted for annihilation by the Nazis just like their parents,…
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) Several tales about world war ii concentrate on the war’s tragedies and depravity. “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of…
Within days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, photographs started to appear of Kindertransport memorials draped in the Ukraine flag. The message “safe passage now” was printed on a brown…
The daughter of the Kindertransport founder Sir Nicholas Winton, Barbara, and Lord Eric Pickles are on the lineup at a Holocaust remembrance conference for second generation families. The conference “Remembering…
Kindertransport” will debut at Ensemble Theatre on March 6. The show focuses on a British rescue mission during World War II which saw 10,000 Jewish children placed into foster homes…
Bring your tissues. As described aptly in the College of Entertainment and the Arts emails, “Kindertransport depicts the agony of separating a child from her parents and wrestles with the…
Kindertransport survivor Vera Schaufeld and Bosnian refugee survivor Safet Vukalic share their testimony in interview with Jewish News ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day
Michele Gold, whose mother escaped the Holocaust, honors the 81st anniversary of the Kindertransport. She discusses “Memories That Won’t Go Away: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport” and…
Frank Meisler’s The Arrival. Amy Williams is in danger of forgetting its lessons Reports in the UK press on September 1 revealed plans by the home secretary to end the…