…composer Kurt Weill, who worked out his masterpiece “The Three penny Opera” on the Lowenstein family piano. Lowenstein’s war stories are harrowing. At 13, he was part of an illegal…
…McGill rejected him, having decided that they had enough Jews already. Queen’s, however, accepted the young man, who eventually completed degrees in history and chemistry. At the party in his…
…he boarded a Kindertransport which would take him to England. “The children were of school age, from about 6 to 17, and they had one thing in common: They were…
Fritz Spiegl was a flautist, joker and composer of the Z-Cars theme. Until he died some years ago, I didn’t know that as a boy fresh from his Kindertransport, he…
…to enter the Gaza Strip. “There comes a time in one’s life when one has to step up and risk one’s own body,” she said. “We’re in a desperate situation…
…Buchenwald for a time. On Dec. 1, 1938, Heilbrunn and her sister were placed in the Kindertransport. Heilbrunn was 14, her sister 11. For information about iVolunteer, go to ivolunteerny.com…
…investigating topics and looking at the competition’s guidelines. Their final projects,including “Kindertransport: Journey to Safety,” a documentary by Chilsen and Reimler, qualified May 1 for the national competition to be…
Local councillors and residents visited Leeds’ Brodetsky Jewish Primary to officially open three new building projects. A specially constructed nature teaching area known as the Outdoor School was dedicated to…
…recently portrayed the German-Jewish refugee Albert Einstein in the film Oppenheimer. Kindertransport refugees have attended an emotional commemorative concert to mark the 85th anniversary of their arrival in Britain. Milena…
…married her husband who had also escaped from Vienna. In 1959 they moved to Clearwater. While active in numerous community organizations, it was the Florida Holocaust that was her passion….
…immersive setting. From puppetry and visual theatre company Smoking Apples, the production invites the audience into an immersive set, allowing them to go on this incredible journey with Babi. Kinder…
…beginning of our conversation. “Make sure you tell the Jewish Chronicle that every time I come to London, I go to Liverpool Street station and look at the Kindertransport sculpture.”…
…from the Second World War, a humanitarian story that didn’t come to light for decades. It concerns a young Londoner named Nicholas Winton who went to Prague, and ended up…
The trip commemorates the 80th anniversary of the kindertransports between 1938 and 1939, which saved some 10,000 children from Central European countries.
Hamden Hall Country Day School’s community lecture series features a documentary that tells the inspirational story of the Czech Kindertransport that rescued 669 children in the early days of Nazi…
Judy Benton as a child (second from right) with her family. Her parents later died in Auschwitz When Hitler came to power, everything changed. By 1938 the Hitler Youth were…
…10,000 children, most but not all Jewish, would escape the Nazis in the months to come — until the outbreak of war in September 1939, when the borders were closed….
…10,000 children, most but not all Jewish, would escape the Nazis in the months to come — until the outbreak of war in September 1939, when the borders were closed….
…and David Meyerhof, whose mother was on the Kindertransport from Berlin, shared their stories at the Burbank Town Center Monday in commemoration of World Kindertransport Day and the 75th anniversary…
n observance of Yom HaShoah, congregants at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah, Wilmette gathered for a special memorial service on Sunday evening, April 27. The program highlighted children of the…