Kindertransport refugee Vera Schaufeld tells Alex Galbinski why she now speaks out for other stranded children. As she speaks of her childhood, Vera, now 89, is matter of fact about…
Several books and films have told the story of the 10,000 Jewish children who were spirited out of Europe during World War II on Kindertransport trains to safety in Great…
In late August 1939, one week before the outbreak of the Second World War, 13-year-old Dieter Eger said goodbye to his parents and boarded a train in his hometown of…
Those who survived thanks to his efforts still refer to themselves as “Winton’s Children.” “One saw the problem there, that a lot of these children were in danger, and you…
Bill Graham launched the psychedelic music era at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and the Fillmore East in New York, with bands such as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane,…
Paddington’s 88-year-old creator, Michael Bond reveals his inspiration for the kindly bear: the Jewish evacuee children he remembered seeing in the train stations of London during the Kindertransport of the…
Sig, bottom left, and Zilla Koppold were very young when they arrived in England. Dana Binke, left, was their guarantor, at left cousins Edith and Paula, also on the Kindertransport…
Lizzie (center), Ilse (bottom right), Hans (bottom left) Fritz (bottom center) and their parents. When her parents escorted 16-year-old Alice, my aunt, to the Vienna train station, her father was…
Monday is world Kindertransport Day: the 75th anniversary of one of the great humanitarian missions of modern times. Imagine a world where 10,000 children were rescued from the holocaust by…
Lotti Blumenthal holds a photo that includes her, 5th from left, back row, at Burges Hill, Sussex, England. Howard Lipin When Lotti Blumenthal was 13 years old in 1938, she…
In late April, the CBS program “60 Minutes” aired an extraordinary report titled “Saving the Children,” about Sir Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who in 1939 helped 669 children, mostly Jews,…