'The Kindertransport' - a Holocaust Remembrance Day reading
Channel: Safed English Library
Date: 2023-04-18

This year's Yom Hashoah commemoration focused on the topic of The Kindertransport. Our program included the filmed interview of Sir Nicholas Winton, the mastermind behind the Kindertransport to rescue children from Nazi Germany to the UK, which was aired on the 60-Minutes CBS news program. 

Another video featured an interview with author Lore Segal who was among those saved by the Kindertransport. A library member read a detailed, official letter penned by his late wife to the German government, requesting reparations for her German-born mother who was on the Kindertransport. There was a reading about Paddington Bear and his connection to the Kindertransport. 

To conclude the program, several library members read several excerpts from the British play,  'The Kindertransport,' as seen in this video, followed by an open and stimulating discussion among the guests and participants. 

The actors (R-L): 
Danya Diana Markovitz - Faith
Patricia Har-Even - Evelyn
Hilary Sivan - Helga
Linda Stern - Eva

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