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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Kindertransport

Walter Bingham (2nd right) with his daughter Sonia, President and First Lady Herzog, and Chaiman of International March of the Living, Samuel Roseman (left). (Haim Zach/GPO)
January 26, 2024, 2:16 am
85 years later, president hosts Kindertransport survivors, draws link to October 7
Herzog hails Holocaust survivors who were smuggled out of Nazi-controlled Europe; Hamas massacre forced one of them, Mirjam Szpiro of Kibbutz Zikim, to leave home a 2nd time
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton in 'One Life.' (Peter Mountain/See Saw Films via JTA)
January 15, 2024, 2:27 am
‘One Life’ stars Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who saved Jewish kids from Nazis
Based on the book by its subject’s daughter, the biopic of a Holocaust-era hero who helped 669 Czech children escape to the UK hits big screens – but not without controversy
By Jackie Hajdenberg
File: People pass a commemorative memorial statue to perpetuating the memory of the Kindertransport near Friedrichstrasse train station in central in Berlin, Germany, December 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 4, 2024, 8:20 am
Police probe vandalism of Berlin Kindertransport memorial after pro-Palestinian rally
Monument to children rescued from Nazis defaced with images of mosque, church, after unauthorized protests held on New Year’s Eve
By Toby Axelrod
Protesters hold placards and flags and chant slogans at a rally in support of Palestinians and against Israel, outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London on November 15, 2023. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)
December 3, 2023, 9:44 am
Holocaust survivors in UK worried about rising antisemitism in country since Oct. 7
Refugees brought to Britain during World War II say they never expected antisemitism to return as it has, with incidents now reaching all-time high
By AFP and ToI Staff
Sir Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton in the upcoming movie 'One Life.' (Warner Brothers via UK Jewish News)
August 10, 2023, 11:47 pm
Anthony Hopkins to star in film on ‘British Schindler’
Oscar-winning actor to portray stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton, who helped save 669 Jewish children in Prague from the Nazis
By ToI Staff
Ben Abeles, photographed in 2008 in front of the Kindertransport memorial at the Liverpool Street station in London, where the children arrived after boarding the train in Harwich. (Courtesy of Helen Abeles)
July 13, 2023, 1:12 am
Tech developed by refugee who fled Nazis to UK used today by NASA on Mars
Family of Jewish physicist Benjamin Abeles, who was on a Kindertransport as a teen and became an activist to help refugees in his 80s, donates archive to University of Southampton
By Robert Philpot
Prince Charles, front left, eight-month-old son of Princess Elizabeth of England, left, and the Duke of Edinburgh, is posed for the camera by his mother while his father looks on, July 18, 1949, Ascot, England AP Photo)
May 5, 2023, 10:06 am
1st person to hold King Charles after his birth was a Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Ingelore Czarlinski, who fled Nazi Germany as a teen, trained as a medical professional; coincidentally, she changed her name to Susan Charles before working for royal obstetrician
By ToI Staff
Britain's King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort, visit the Kindertransport Memorial at the Dammtor railway station in Hamburg, northern Germany, on March 31, 2023. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
March 31, 2023, 10:23 pm
In Germany, Charles III visits memorial for Jewish kids taken to UK to escape Nazis
British king and queen consort lay wreath for German citizens killed in Allied bombing of Hamburg after commemorating Kindertransport
By Frank Jordans
An armed sentry stands guard as civilian aliens, interned by England, walk inside an internment camp in the UK, June 2, 1940. (AP)
November 5, 2022, 10:14 am
They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire
A new book sheds light on the little-known story of thousands of German Jewish refugees held in internment camps in the UK during World War II – including several of my ancestors
By Amy Spiro
Jewish children boarding ship as part of a kindertransport out of Nazi occupied Europe. (Courtesy of Pamela Sturhoofd)
April 22, 2022, 12:19 pm
When Jewish kids fled Nazis, UK families took them in. Now they share their stories
British nation had tight-fisted attitude toward Kindertransport refugees, but many regular Brits opened their doors. Foster siblings are giving testimonies never recorded before
By Robert Philpot
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Walter Kohn in 1998 was sold at auction for $457,531. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions via JTA)
January 30, 2022, 7:47 pm
Nobel Prize won by Jewish man saved in Kindertransport auctioned for nearly $500,000
Lot in which medal was sold also includes three of Walter Kohn’s science textbooks from when he was a student
By Shira Hanau
The Children of the Kindertransport sculpture, outside Liverpool Street Station in London (John Chase, 2006)
November 10, 2021, 2:01 pm
Poll finds most people in UK don’t know how many Jews perished in Holocaust
Barely a third could name a concentration camp, and one in ten believe the mass murder of Jewish people during WWII is either greatly exaggerated or a myth
By JTA and ToI Staff
Journalist and author Hella Pick. (Bea Lewkowicz/ Association for Jewish Refugees)
August 21, 2021, 8:55 am
From Kindertransport to the White House, a British reporter’s remarkable journey
In her memoir ‘Invisible Walls,’ Hella Pick describes arriving in the UK knowing one word of English and growing into a journalist who witnessed our era’s most impactful events
By Robert Philpot
'Nicky & Vera' by Peter Sis (Courtesy W.W. Norton and Company); Holocaust-era hero Nicholas Winton, who helped save 669 Czech children from the Nazi invasion. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)
July 12, 2021, 2:42 am
Man who rescued 669 Czech children from Nazis is now the hero of a kids’ book
Nicholas Winton helped organize Kindertransports that carried young people to safety on the eve of war. ‘Nicky & Vera,’ by author and illustrator Peter Sis, now honors his legacy
By Rich Tenorio
Truus Wijsmuller, at left, looks at the children from the Burgerweeshuis, sometime before 1940. (CC BY-SA 4.0/ Overwijsmuller)
May 5, 2021, 5:26 am
The little-known ‘female Nicholas Winton’ who saved 10,000 Jewish children
A new documentary, streaming through May 19, explores how unsung heroine Truus Wijsmuller rescued thousands of youngsters from Europe during WWII at great personal risk
By Francine Wolfisz
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