Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Kindertransport (“children’s transport”), an organized effort to save Jewish European children in 1938-39.
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Fast Forward Berlin police investigating vandalism of Kindertransport memorial following pro-Palestinian demonstrations
The site is a tribute to the roughly 10,000 German Jewish children sent to England in 1938 and 1939, many of whom never saw their parents again
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Film & TV Four decades later, a Jewish iconoclast’s searing film gets its debut
94-year-old Michael Roemer’s 1984 ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ confronts the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his career
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Fast Forward Czech Children Saved By ‘British Schindler’ Dedicate Prague Memorial
(JTA) — A group of children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler,” unveiled a monument in Prague to their parents. The monument, called the Farewell Memorial, is comprised of a replica of a train door from 1939, with the imprints of hands of children on one side, and…
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News READ: Kindertransport Holocaust Survivors Make Impassioned Plea Against Trump’s Muslim Ban
In the months before the start of World War II, 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved on a “Kindertransport” or children’s transport. Now these “children” are making their voices heard to fight for current refugees hoping to come to America. Ilse Melamid was 11 years old when she saw her family for the last time….
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News Saved by the Kindertransport: Meet Two Inspiring Holocaust Survivors
Seventy-eight years ago this week, on December 2, 1938, the first Kindertransport left Germany. In the following months over 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved from Nazi-occupied territories, because their parents were willing to separate from them. In England they were placed in foster families, schools and shelters. British authorities agreed to grant visas; private…
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Breaking News Citing Kindertransport, 100 British Rabbis Demand Open Door for Refugees
More than 100 British Jewish clergy signed a letter urging the United Kingdom to take in more Syrian refugees. In a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the rabbis and cantors referenced the 10,000 Jewish children that the United Kingdom rescued from the Nazis between 1938 and 1940. Two of the people delivering the…
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Breaking News Vienna Will Be Home of Kindertransport Museum
Vienna is set to see the opening of what organizers say is the world’s first permanent museum dedicated to the story of the Kindertransport. The museum is to open in the center of the Austrian capital on Dec. 10, the 76th anniversary of the departure of the first group of Jewish children from Vienna as…
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Opinion How Kindertransports Saved My Family
When her parents escorted 16-year-old Alice, my aunt, to the Vienna train station, her father was crying. Her mother on the other hand, remained strong and optimistic. “She said, ‘We’re going to see each other again,’” Alice, nicknamed Lizzie, remembered. ”And I was like, I’m going to England, and I’ll be able to improve my…
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