New book written by native Londoner Riki Goldstein, introduces today’s youth to vital history about the Nazis, the Kindertransport, and the Holocaust in an accessible and child-friendly way. Book is…
Peter Gossels was a few weeks shy of turning 9 when his mother placed him and his 5-year-old brother on a train to flee Germany for France on July 3,…
…once been rescued, made a special journey. The New York-based “Kindertransport Association” organized a commemorative journey, which led from Vienna by train and boat via Berlin and Amsterdam to London….
Article in the Coventry Post British newspaper featuring Kinder Susi Bechhofer and Gerda Kerr, who will be attending a Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration with the theme “Stand Up to Hatred.”…
The love story between KTA member Alfred Bader and his wife, Isabel, will be featured on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Valentine’s Day-themed documentary Friday February 13 at 9pm on The…
…us by their selfless example of giving without seeking recognition for their efforts. Ilse Meyer was one of those people, and her impact on our community will continue to be…
The Providence campus of URI presents “The Holocaust: Women’s Stories — The Will to Survive and Thrive.” It’s not one event but three: two exhibits and one play. The exhibit…
Lisl Schick,was a guest speaker at a Florida high school in an initiative to bring more awareness of the Holocaust. The assembly was sponsored by the Holocaust Education Resource Council,…
KTA member Alfred Traum is featured in article about the Reverend Patrick Desbois and his search for evidence of Nazi crimes in the Ukraine. ‘We are running against time,’ the…
Friedel (Fred) Ransenberg was born in Wenneman, Germany, the second oldest of six children. His father, Jakob Ransenberg, an Iron Cross recipient and decorated sergeant in the German Army during…
Marianne Bern and her sister fled Nazi Germany for England in 1939 though the Kindertransport. On Tuesday, Bern participated in the third annual Holocaust Remembrance Day service in the Cedar…
Though Sam Barriskell is nearly 70 years younger than Lilly Drukker, the 13-year-old was keenly aware that in a different time and place, her story could easily have been his….
A monument was unveiled Wednesday in the Polish port city of Gdansk remembering 10,000 Jewish children evacuated to Britain to save them from the Nazis. The bronze memorial went up…
…treated with suspicion by the authorities when he arrived in Scotland as an asylum seeker and was sent to the High Court in Edinburgh, charged with communicating with the enemy….
It has been 65 years since D-Day, but the memories haven’t faded for two Oneonta men who fought in the invasion of Normandy, the Allied offensive that was a turning…
Joe Wohlfarth is affably modest for someone who has represented Great Britain in the Maccabiah games – a quality that is magnified when you discover that he played on the…
Craig A. Spiegel writes, in the Cleveland Jewish News, of his trip with his mother, Cleveland resident Thea Lange Spiegel, to a reunion of Kindertransport Kinder in Gdansk (formerly Danzig),…
Nicholas Winton with Tal Cohain, whose grandmother Hanna Slome was rescued by Winton’s Kindertransports. From the Jerusalem Post, article on the Winton train: It took 70 years for this reunion,…
In October 1938 Chaskel, along with close to 20,000 Polish Jews living in Germany, was deported to Poland, torn from his wife and children. For months Chaskel corresponded from Poland…
Born and raised in Austria, with two elder sisters settled in the nascent Zionist state of Palestine, Ramler was transported out of the country just before war broke out. Ramler’s…