The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote lecture titled “Remembering The Children: Stories From The Kindertransport” Wednesday, Feb. 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Kindertransport was a rescue mission that saved about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia by transporting them to England. Until 1989, the 50th anniversary of the mission, those on the Kindertransport were not considered central to the Holocaust story; the children did not suffer in hiding or in camps, and survived in relatively comfortable conditions. Yet 98% of their parents perished, and the childrens’ adaptation to British culture was fraught with misunderstandings about their Jewish identities.
As seen from their published memoirs, stories from those on the Kindertransport are indeed central to Holocaust history and deserve to be recognized.
The lecture will be presented by Phyllis Lassner, professor emerita at Northwestern University. Register for the event.