Film/Video/Theater

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“Exhibition ‘Für das Kind / For the Child” – Launch Event at Ottowa City Hall, October 19, 2022

(October 19, 2022) Published by Austrian Cultural Forum

A film about the exhibition ‘Für das Kind / For the Child‘ – Launch Event in Ottowa.

“We were the lucky ones” — The Psychology of Kindertransport Survivors

(October 2, 2024) Published by Sousa Mendes Foundation

A recorded Zoom meeting hosted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation featuring Melissa Hacker, Rachel Dahill-Fuchel, and Susan Mirow, Ph.D. The session discusses Kindertransport experiences and psychological perspectives.

2025 Summer Survivor Speaker Series: Bert Romberg

(June 19, 2025) Published by DHHRM

A recorded testimony program featuring Bert Romberg, a German‑Jewish child refugee who escaped Nazi persecution via the Kindertransport. Presented at the Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum, the event is part of the museum’s annual Summer Survivor Speaker Series, where Holocaust survivors, refugees, hidden children, and second‑generation descendants share their personal histories.

A Family dilemma – Miriam Blumenthal Kindertransport story

(7 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul

Elaine Smith tells the moving Kindertransport story of her late mother Miriam Blumenthal.

Abschied ein Leben Lang- A Life-Long Farewell

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.

AJR International Forum on the Kindertransport

(2019) Published by AJR

There are several videos published by the Association of Refugees (AJR) documenting sessions from the International Forum on the Kindertransport, held in 2019 to mark the 8ß0th anniversary of the rescue effort. The channel hosts multiple recordings, including keynote talks, historical panels, and discussions on the contemporary relevance of the Kindertransport.

All My Loved Ones

by Minac, Matej (1999)

A feature film that focuses on a family in dramatizing the story of the Kindertransports from Prague.

Author Lilly Maier discusses her now book about the impact of meeting a Holocaust survivor as a girl

(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.

Book Talk Andrea Hammel: the Kindertransport – what really happened

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.

Claude Kacser‘s One Thousand Children story

(April 11, 2012) Published by Claude Kacser

The story of Claude Kacser, who fled Nazi Europe as part of the One Thousand Children (The American Kindertransport) to the United States.

Cooking with Ruth Zimbler

Published by Jewish Food

A cooking video with Kindertransport survivor and KTA member Ruth Zimbler.

Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport: The Author’s Guide to the Play

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.

Dig World War 2: The Millisle Farm Story

by Snow, Dan and Litvack, Leon (2013); Published by BBC One Television

Dan Snow interviews Leon Litvack about the Millisle Farm Project.

Escaping the Nazis

(May 25, 2025) Published by San Francisco Regional Mensa

A recorded talk from the SFRM Monthly Speaker Series featuring Jason Camis (KT3, grandson of a Kindertransport survivor) and Benyamin Cohen (Senior Writer at The Forward). Camis shares the story of his grandmother’s 1939 escape from Nazi‑controlled Austria on the Kindertransport, offering a third‑generation perspective on family memory, rescue, and survival. Cohen presents a second historical narrative about a lesser‑known chapter of the Holocaust: the presence of 1,200 Nazis and their families living at a luxury resort in West Virginia during World War II.

From kindergarten to Kindertransport

(December 3, 2013) Published by Intidings

A short news segment marking World Kindertransport Day and the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport.

From The YIVO archives – One Thousand Children: The Untold Story of the American Kindertransport

(March 12, 2014) Published by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

A recorded YIVO Institute for Jewish Research event (October 27 2013) featuring survivors and scholars discussing the One Thousand Children (OTC) – Jewish minors rescued from Nazi Europe and brought to the United States without their parents. The program includes a roundtable with Eve Boden, Debórah Dwork, Henry Frankel, Iris Posner, Steven Pressman, and Erwin Tepper, exploring rescue networks and postwar experiences.

Für das Kind/For the Child – The Story of the Kindertransport Exhibit Launch

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.

Guest Speaker Ilse Melamid, “Human Rights: Coming to Terms with Historical Justice Through Reparations” Course

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.

Helena Bonham Carter Reveals the Fascinating History Behind New ‘One Life‘ Film

(January 5, 2024) Published by History Hit

An interview video from History Hit featuring Helena Bonham Carter discussing the film One Life, which tells the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton and his rescue of 669 children from Nazi‑occupied Czechoslovakia before World War II. The conversation with Dan Snow explores the historical background, Winton’s humanitarian mission, and the emotional legacy of the Kindertransport, alongside insights from the film’s cast and production.

Henry Levy – Unternehmen Kunst

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.