(October 19, 2022) Published by Austrian Cultural Forum
A film about the exhibition ‘Für das Kind / For the Child‘ – Launch Event in Ottowa.
(7 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul
Elaine Smith tells the moving Kindertransport story of her late mother Miriam Blumenthal.
by Kratz, Kathe (1999); Published by Extrafilm
Three former residents of Vienna, KTA member Anne (Anny) Kelemen, Gerda Lederer and Curtis Brown (Kurt Braun), return to Vienna, the city where they were born. They are invited by the ‘Lost Neighborhood’ memorial project, part of which is the reconstruction of the façade of a synagogue destroyed 60 years ago. The stories told by these three emigrants are juxtaposed with images of this project, resulting in a dramatic, humorous and moving documentary of Jewish life in 1930s Vienna.
by Minac, Matej (1999)
A feature film that focuses on a family in dramatizing the story of the Kindertransports from Prague.
(November 5, 2023) Published by NY1
In her new book “Arthur and Lily: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor”, author Lilly Maier tells the story of meeting Holocaust and Kindertransport survivor Arthur Kern when she was 11-years-old. It tells about their unlikely friendship that developed for over a decade before he passed away. Maier spoke with anchors Shannan Ferry and Rocco Vertuccio about their friendship.
by The Wiener Holocaust Library (December 7, 2023)
A recording of a Book Talk by Andrea Hammel about her book „The Kindertransport: what really happened“ at the Wiener Holocaust Library.
by Samuels, Diane (2014); Published by Nick Hern Books
The author’s guide to Kindertransport, an invaluable and uniquely authoritative resource for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play. First staged by the Soho Theatre Company in London in 1993, Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport has enjoyed huge success around the world and is widely studied in colleges. The play tells the story of nine-year-old Eva, a German Jewish girl, sent by her parents on the Kindertransport to start a new life with a foster family in Britain just before the outbreak of World War Two. Years later, she has changed her name to Evelyn and denied her roots.
by Snow, Dan and Litvack, Leon (2013); Published by BBC One Television
Dan Snow interviews Leon Litvack about the Millisle Farm Project.
A summary of the Ottawa launch of Für das Kind / For the Child, a photo exhibit on the Kindertransport featuring images of children’s belongings and survivor reflections. The event brought together survivors, descendants, diplomats and community members to highlight the rescue of about 10,000 children from Nazi persecution and to connect this history with contemporary issues of antisemitism and human rights.
by Fordham Law School (May 14, 2024); Published by VIMEO
KTA Member and Holocaust survivor Ilse Melamid speaking about human rights and historical justice at the Fordham Law School.
by Anna-Lydia Florin (2004)
In a portrait, director Anna-Lydia Florin traces Henry F. Levy’s journey towards art. She charts the phases of his life, beginning with his childhood in an upper-class Jewish family in Cologne, followed by his escape from the National Socialists by means of a Kindertransport rescue operation to England, the expression of Levy’s entrepreneurial spirit in different branches of trade, his retreat to an agricultural estate in Kent, England, his taking residence in Switzerland and the founding of the BINZ39 in Zurich. Henry F. Levy is convinced that we need men like himself for forging such a link.
by Gissing, Vera (2007); Published by Teachers TV
A 5 minute video of Vera Gissing, a Kind from Czechoslovakia, remembering her Kindertransport experience and reuniting with an old friend.
(January 19, 2024) Published by International March of the Living
A film based on interviews with Kindertransport survivors from the USC Shoah Foundation, followed by an historical overview of the Kindertransport from Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum from the American Jewish University. Directed by Naomi Wise.
(7 November 2018) Published by Leo Baeck Institute, New York
In this video, Ilse Melamid recalls the seperation from her parents when she left on a Kindertransport to England as part of the 1938Projekt.
(2022) Published by Claims Conference
Video of the International Holocaust Survivors Night in 2022 with the Holocaust and Kindertransport survivor Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
(19 July, 2024) Published by Jewish Exponent
A Podcast Interview with KT2 Peter Weisner for the Jewish Exponent.
by Oppenheimer, Deborah and Mark Jonathan Harris (2000); Published by London: Bloomsbury
The companion book to the film. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
(20 July 2023) Published by Western Galilee College: Holocaust Studies Program
A Video from the Panel Talk on False Hopes and Shattered Dreams: Jewish Refugees in the Shadow of Evian with Dr. Amy Williams, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility/New School for Social Research, New York and Prof. Laura Brade, Albion College, USA.
Moderator: Dr. Yaron Pasher, Western Galilee College
Concluding Remarks: Dr. Boaz Coen, Head of The Holocaust Studies Program at Western Galilee College
Hosted by The Holocaust Studies Program at Western Galilee College:
Dr. Boaz Cohen, Dr. Verena Buser , Dr. Yaron Pasher, Dr. Daniela Ozacky Stern.
Published by Smithsonian Folklife
This post covers Joel Darmstadter‘s story of escaping Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport to Great Britain. He shares how the experience has shaped his identity.
by Samuels, Diane (1995); Published by New York: Plume
This play has been performed worldwide, on the West End, Off-Broadway, and in community theaters.