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Lore Segal gestures during an interview in New York, February 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
January 28, 2026, 4:09 pm
NYC exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a Holocaust child refugee and skeptic of easy truths
‘And That’s True Too,’ on display through April 15, traces the New Yorker contributor’s arc from Kindertransport to the Big Apple, where she dazzled with novels, short stories and kids’ books
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Screen capture from video of British Jewish cellist Raphael Wallfisch playing a Holocaust-era cello in BBC show 'The Repair Shop' in December 2025. (Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 6, 2026, 11:35 pm
BBC draws fire after airing Holocaust cello repair story that does not mention Jews
Instrument was brought to England on Kindertransport by Martin Landau as a child; remarks in show by guest Helen Mirren appear cut to avoid mentioning Jews, UK media reports
By Grace Gilson
Holocaust survivors Walter Bingham, 101, center, George Shefi, 94, right, and Paul Alexander, 87, talk as they pose for a photo after an interview at Jerusalem Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2025, ahead the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
November 9, 2025, 9:18 am
Israeli Kristallnacht survivors mark 87th anniversary amid rising global antisemitism
Survivors see parallels between today and period ahead of Holocaust: ‘We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked’
By Melanie Lidman
'Kindertransport' following Kristallnacht, when faith-based organizations in the UK lobbied for the entry of Jewish children as refugees. (public domain)
August 3, 2025, 7:49 am
UK historian defies experts, discovers unknown Kindertransport records deep in Yad Vashem
Believed not to exist, records found in Jerusalem archives name 9,000 Jewish children saved in rescue operations out of Nazi-occupied Europe between 1938-1940
By Matt Lebovic
Leo Borger's shop selling radios and musical instruments on Vienna’s Landstrasse Haupstrasse, in 1933, prior to being 'Aryanized' in the lead-up to the Holocaust. (Courtesy)
May 31, 2025, 10:16 am
Paper trail: How a series of ads in a WWII-era UK daily revealed a tragic family history
Julian Borger traced his father’s escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir
By Robert Philpot
Sweater that Chana Zumerkorn from Lodz gave to her brother Joseph when they parted during the Holocaust (Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection, Gift of Joseph Zumerkorn, 11735)
April 23, 2025, 7:59 am
Clothing historian stitches together Holocaust history by focusing on ‘women’s work’
Nonfiction ‘Four Red Sweaters’ tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as Nazis’ circular economy and perpetrator psychology
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
A statue commemorating the Kindertransport near Friedrichstrasse train station 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
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