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Kindertransport
The Kindertransport refugees hosted by Lord Mayor of City of London at Mansion House of AJR in London Mansion House on 16 7 2024. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©
July 17, 2024, 2:23 pm
‘We are proud of the City’s Jewish heritage’: Lord Mayor hosts Kindertransport refugees
Moving event at London's Mansion House marks 85 years since historic humanitarian rescue mission
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: Kisharon Langdon
July 3, 2024, 9:37 am
Cyclists raise £70k for Kisharon Langdon in 284 mile feat
Supporters, including Michael Marlowe, whose son Jake was murdered at the Nova Festival, retraced historic Kindertransport route, riding from London’s Liverpool Street Station to Amsterdam
By Michelle Rosenberg
Michael-Bibring-with-students-from-the-school. Pic: HET
May 23, 2024, 1:55 pm
Son of Holocaust survivor returns to Austrian school which expelled his father for being Jewish
Michael Bibring continues to share the testimony of his late father Harry Bibring who fled the Nazis on the Kindertransport
By Michelle Rosenberg
Father Francis Wahle. Pic; AJR
May 16, 2024, 1:59 pm
Kindertransport refugee and priest Francis Wahle dies, aged 94
Baptised as a child, the Catholic minister only discovered his Jewish ancestry when he was forced to flee the Nazis in Vienna
By Michelle Rosenberg
Kinder decendants gather at Harwich monument. Pic: AJR
May 14, 2024, 2:04 pm
85 years on, Kindertransport descendants retrace their family’s steps
Kinder from across US and UK gather at Harwich and Liverpool Street for emotional commemoration
By Michelle Rosenberg
The concert was hosted by renowned actor Tom Conti, who recently portrayed the German-Jewish refugee Albert Einstein in the film Oppenheimer.
May 13, 2024, 10:48 am
Kindertransport refugees receive standing ovation at 85th anniversary concert
Surviving kinder, among them Lady Grenfell-Baines, Lord Alf Dubs and Bronia Snow, hailed as “national treasures” at Wigmore Hall event.
By Dan Hardoon
School choir performs for Yom HaShoah
April 16, 2024, 3:40 pm
Yom HaShoah UK announces return to large-scale outdoor event
More than 800 tickets already booked for National Holocaust commemoration in its first in-person tribute since 2019
By Michelle Rosenberg
Hella Pick
April 5, 2024, 12:18 pm
Kindertransport refugee Hella Pick dies, aged 94
'What a lady! What a journalist': tributes pour in to formidable Guardian foreign correspondent who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938
By Michelle Rosenberg
Henry Wuga, May 2022
February 21, 2024, 4:49 pm
Beloved Kindertransport refugee and Shoah educator turns 100
Henry Wuga, who celebrates his centenary on Friday, fled Nuremberg in May 1939.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Frances Segelman and Kurt Marx, January 2024.
February 7, 2024, 4:25 pm
Frances Segelman sculpts Kindertransport refugee for Holocaust Memorial Day
Renown artist created a bust of her fellow Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue (EHRS) member Kurt Marx.
By Michelle Ansher
Photo Credit: Adam Lawrence/March of the Living UK
February 6, 2024, 12:04 pm
Shoah and Kindertransport survivors meet for the first time
Holocaust educational charity March of the Living brings together centenarians Lily Ebert and Walter Bingham
By Michelle Rosenberg
The HMD 2024 of AJR in London Belzise Sq Synagogue on 22 1 2024. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©
January 23, 2024, 12:49 pm
AJR commemorates life saving rescue missions at Holocaust Memorial Day
Milestone year as Association of Jewish Refugees marks the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport and Kitchener Camp rescues
By Michelle Rosenberg
January 4, 2024, 4:28 pm
Anger after Jewish children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton described as ‘central European’
Warner Bros updates wording to make clear the 'kinder' depicted in the film of One Life, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, were overwhelmingly Jewish.
By Lee Harpin
Walter Bingham celebrating his hundredth birthday on January 4, 2023. (Credit: International March of the Living)
January 4, 2024, 2:43 pm
Kindertransport survivor celebrates centenary birthday in Jerusalem
Walter Bingham, the world's oldest active journalist, says he "could never have imagined that at the age of 100 I would be a witness to the horrific pogrom against Jews that took place on October 7"
By Michelle Rosenberg
Johnny Flynn as the young Nicholas Winton.
January 4, 2024, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Kindertransport legacy: Confronting antisemitism in today’s world
Some 85 years after Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi persecution, the British government remains an unshakable ally of the Jewish community
By Karen Pollock
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