…– to escape from the German-occupied country, and come to Britain just before war broke out in September 1939. Many of the children’s families were murdered in Nazi concentration camps….
The plight of unaccompanied children during the current refugee crisis resonates in two important ways. First, the focus on children strikes an emotional chord and second, we inevitably recall the…
…in Essex on 2 December 1938. Family members travelled between London Liverpool Street and Harwich on Monday as part of the commemorations. Many said they were thankful for the project…
…the acts of compassion along the way.” With the continuing success of the project across Australia, it is set to expand to Cape Town in South Africa later this year….
…historian commented, they were “transient phenomena” that “left few traces on the ground”. Now my new book, Escape to Gwrych Castle, a Jewish Refugee Story, attempts to redress the balance….
If my father hadn’t been saved, his three sons, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren wouldn’t be here today. That’s why I support an openhearted welcome for those fleeing persecution anywhere…
A SHOW based on the story of a German Jewish woman who started a new life in Britain after World War Two is coming to Bradford next month. Eva, which…
The moment Nicholas Winton comes face to face with just a few of the Jewish children he saved from the Nazis on That’s Life, in 1988, is one of the…
A children’s carousel of the kind installed in British playgrounds in the 1930s has been selected by the city of Frankfurt to commemorate the unaccompanied children on the Kindertransport from…
…persecution and brought to the small town of Tynemouth, east of Newcastle, and supported by the small local Jewish community. In a nondescript terraced house overlooking the sea, the girls…
Members of the Birmingham Jewish community gathered at a local churchyard last week to dedicate a memorial plaque to a five-year-old Kindertransport refugee from Prague who died in a bombing…
…p.m. at the Folsom Community Center on Natoma Street, according to the Chabad Jewish Community Center. Presale tickets are $20 per person and student tickets for $5 are purchasable provided…
…way to several educational centers and community institutions with lessons about the historic Kindertransport and present-day responsibilities. Between 1938 and 1940, approximately 10,000 refugee children — mostly Jewish — were…
…Sheffield, London and Edinburgh. “I must say it’s a bit overwhelming,” he admitted. “All the cards coming in, all the phone calls coming in and then you see all the…
…Kindertransport Quilt replicas, true to size at 70″ tall, beautifully printed on sturdy vinyl cloth, are available for exhibition in Holocaust Museums and Study Centers, Universities, Jewish Community Centers, and…
…the Arts is marking 70 years since the Kindertransport, when more than 10,000 children, who were mostly Jewish, were shipped to Harwich to escape Nazi oppression. For more information: www.harwichfestival.co.uk…
…The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), World Jewish Relief, as well as Lord Eric Pickles, special envoy for post-Holocaust issues of the UK government. (Also see similar article at https://www.thejc.com/news/community/german-parliament-president-pays-tribute-to-shoah-refugees-on-visit-to-liverpool-street-station-memorial-5tvFwloWu1IEcw5vNEEQMp)…