Kindertransport

Josephine Jackson from the Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust (Jewish News)

May 3, 2022, 12:46 pm

Campaign to honour hero who enabled Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport

Trevor Chadwick “organised all eight trains, and the children to travel on them". Now a bronze statue will commemorate his key role in the rescue.

By Jenni Frazer

Holocaust hero the late Sir Nicholas Winton who will be portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the film One Life

April 27, 2022, 11:32 am

Anthony Hopkins’ bio-pic of ‘British Schindler’ seals his place in history

Jewish News campaigned for Sir Nicholas Winton to get his own stamp. Now the Holocaust hero gets a posthumous movie

By Brigit Grant

Kitchener Camp in Sandwich, Kent, was set up in 1939 as a ‘haven’ for refugees (Jewish News)

April 21, 2022, 9:42 am

Concert to recall Kitchener Camp

The story of Kitchener Camp is not as well known as that of the Kindertransport, but it made its mark on a large number of people.

By Jenni Frazer

Liverpool Street Station Kindertransport memorial

December 4, 2021, 4:28 pm

OPINION: Statue compels us to embrace today’s kinder

The Liverpool Street Kindertransport memorial is an educational resource fascinating passers-by, tourists & school children, writes Michael Newman of AJR and Paul Anticoni of WJR

By Michael Newman and Paul Anticoni

Artist Ian Wolter with a figure for the Kindertransport Memorial

August 10, 2021, 4:37 pm

Bid for Kindertransport memorial in Essex town

A fundraising drive aims to erect a statue to Kindertransport children in Harwich, near where 10,000 children spent first few weeks in the UK.

By Josh Salisbury

Truus Wijsmuller helped rescue more than 10,000 children during the Second World War from europe - but her incredible story of heroism is relatively unknown

April 29, 2021, 1:15 pm

The little-known ‘female Nicholas Winton’ who saved 10,000 Jewish children

A new documentary explores how unsung heroine Truus Wijsmuller rescued thousands of Jewish children from Europe during the Second World War at great risk to herself

By Francine Wolfisz

February 5, 2021, 10:04 am

120 Over 80: Lockdown lowdown on our golden generation

From Holocaust survivors and rabbis to philanthropists and community leaders, we bring you the final part of our celebration of our community's outstanding over 80s.

February 3, 2021, 12:19 pm

Tributes paid to two Kindertransport refugees who have died aged 97 and 94

Holocaust Educational Trust pays respects to Walter Kammerling and Marc Schatzberger, who escaped the Nazis as young children before rebuilding their lives in the UK

January 21, 2021, 10:39 am

120 Over 80 – meet our mentors!

Part two of our celebration of the Jewish community's oldest and wisest.

By Jewish News

December 10, 2020, 4:44 pm

Festival of lights and happy memories

Jewish Care residents and volunteers recall Chanukah stories from their younger days and share what the festival means to them this year

Sir David Attenborough recalled how his parents helped save two Kindertransport refugees during the Second World War. Credit: BBC/Sarah Dunn

December 3, 2020, 12:56 pm

‘We are one family’: Sir David Attenborough recalls Jewish refugee ‘sisters’

Francine Wolfisz hears how the family of the beloved 94-year-old natural historian looked after two Kindertransport children during the Second World War

By Francine Wolfisz

Lord Alf Dubs, Rabbi Gluck and representatives from the Jewish Council for Racial Equality at a demo in support of child refugee resettlement Credit: Dinendra Haria

November 20, 2020, 9:00 am

OPINION: Like me, child refugees should get a second chance of life in the UK

For World Children’s Day, Kindertransport refugee Lord Alf Dubs, says the UK must draw on its long-standing values of compassion and leadership

By Alf Dubs

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! contestants. Pictured: Vernon Kay, Beverley Callard, Sir Mo Farah CBE, Jessica Plummer, Shane Richie, Victoria Derbyshire, AJ Pritchard, Giovanna Fletcher, Hollie Arnold MBE and Jordan North.

November 19, 2020, 3:48 pm

I’m A Celebrity’s Gwyrch Castle was once home for Kindertransport refugees

The estate in Abergele, north Wales, features in the new series of the ITV reality show, but in 1939 it was also a safe haven for 96-year-old Henry Glanz and 200 other children

By Francine Wolfisz

Vera Schaufeld with her MBE for services to Holocaust education at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London. Photo credit: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

January 7, 2020, 3:04 pm

“I felt I wasn’t a person any more, I’d become ‘the Jew’”

Kindertransport refugee Vera Schaufeld tells Alex Galbinski why she now speaks out for other stranded children

By Alex Galbinski

December 19, 2019, 12:35 pm

Kindertransport families to open educational display at Imperial War Museum

Schools have been invited for educational sessions at the display titled ‘A Child’s Road to Freedom', which tells the story of how 10,000 children escaped the Nazis to Britain

By Jewish News Reporter

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