Speakers: Melissa Hacker, Amy Williams, and Wendy Henry
From December 1st 1938, through September 1st 1939, nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish children traveled from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig to England, alone, without their parents. This rescue mission became known as the Kindertransport. In 1990, more than 50 years later, a group of Kindertransport survivors in New York City came together to found the Kindertransport Association (KTA - www.kindertransport.org). This unique volunteer run organization was founded not solely as a Survivor group, but as an intergenerational group with the missions of connecting these child Holocaust survivors and descendants, educating the next generations ...