Kindertransport
Deben Players presents 'Kindertransport' by Diane Samuals at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge form 7th to 10th September 2016.
(Original music composed by Andy Kimber)
In 1939, a nine year old Jewish girl, Eva, is sent by her parents to leave Hamburg, Germany, to safety in Britain by the Kindertransport (children’s transport).
She grows up with her foster mother, Lil and over time changes her name to Evelyn. She begins the process of denying her roots but 40 years later, when Evelyn’s own daughter, Faith, discovers papers of her mother’s former life in their attic, Evelyn is forced to confront the past which is haunted by the Ratfänger (the Ratcatcher);
Confessions of denial of her past life ensue and when Evelyn talks of her mother, Helga, surviving the war and coming to collect her to travel to New York, Evelyn remembers her refusal of her mother’s offer and of her birth mother.
Faith’s curiosity of her family roots leave Evelyn a little raw and a mutual respect is shown for each other’s feelings.
The Kindertransport: 80 Years Later
December 5, 2018
Survivor Speakers:
Anita Weissbord, Manfred Korman, Ellen Zilka, and Hannah Deutch
Musical Performance by The Astoria Music Project
Immediately following the violent demonstrations during Kristallnacht, rescue efforts went into effect to bring Jewish child refugees from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czech lands into Great Britain. The Kindertransport, or Children’s Transport, through the work of many organizations and individuals, saved approximately 10,000 children from an unknown fate. Join the KHC for a special panel discussion with local Holocaust Survivors who were on the Kindertransport as they share their individual experiences before, during, and after the War.
As part of the commemoration, musical interludes based on the theme of “Refugees” will be performed by The Astoria Music Project. The United States has always been a place where individuals and groups have come to seek refuge and the opportunity for a better life. In the first concert of The Astoria Music Project's American Experience season, they explore the music of composers who have made America their home, with emphasis on what it means to leave your homeland behind and start anew.
Part of the Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture Series
Remembering Sir Nicholas Winton
The Man Who Saved Children
A VERY RELUCTANT HERO
Just before the outbreak of World War II, Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker visited Prague. Realizing what was about to happen to European Jews, he organized six trains that transported 669 Jewish children, Kindertransport, across Nazi Germany to ferries that brought them to England. Using his own money, and organizational prowess he repatriated the children with British families, without telling them who was behind the plan. Those children, who went on to have thousands of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, were unaware of what Sir Nicholas did for nearly 50 years until his wife discovered a scrapbook in the attic of their home. A modest man who never trumpeted his accomplishments, he was greeted by many of those children, then adults, on a special BBC television show. He is one of the heroes of World War II, was made an MBE, and given the Order of the White Lion by the Czech Republic. There is a statue of him with a little girl at the main railway station in Prague.
Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Nicholas George Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for children transportation). Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.[2] The world found out about his work only in 1988. The British press dubbed him the British Schindler.[3] On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman.
Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 in Hampstead, London, a son of bank manager Rudolph Wertheim and wife Barbara (née Wertheimer).[4][5][6] His parents were German Jews who had moved to London two years earlier.[7] The family name was Wertheim, but they changed it to Winton in an effort at integration.[8] They also converted to Christianity, and Winton was baptised.[9]
In 1923, Winton entered Stowe School, which had just opened.[10] He left without qualifications, attending night school while volunteering at the Midland Bank. He then went to Hamburg, where he worked at Behrens Bank, followed by Wasserman Bank in Berlin.[7] In 1931, he moved to France and worked for the Banque Nationale de Crédit in Paris. He also earned a banking qualification in France. Returning to London, he became a broker at the London Stock Exchange. Though a stockbroker, Winton was also an ardent socialist who became close to Labour Party party luminaries Aneurin Bevan, Jennie Lee and Tom Driberg.[11] Through another socialist friend, Martin Blake, Winton became part of a leftwing circle opposed to appeasement and concerned about the dangers posed by the Nazis.[11]
At school, he had become an outstanding fencer and he was selected for the British team in 1938. He had hoped to compete in the next Olympics, but the games were cancelled because of the war.[12]
Shortly before Christmas 1938, Winton was planning to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday. He decided instead to visit Prague and help Martin Blake,[7] who was in Prague as an associate of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia,[13] then in the process of being occupied by Germany, and had called Winton to ask him to assist in Jewish welfare work.[14] Winton single-handedly established an organization to aid children from Jewish families at risk from the Nazis. He set up his office at a dining room table in his hotel in Wenceslas Square.[15] In November 1938, following Kristallnacht in Nazi-ruled Germany, the House of Commons approved a measure to allow the entry into Britain of refugees younger than 17, provided they had a place to stay and a warranty of £50 was deposited for their eventual return to their own country.[16]
The Netherlands[edit]
An important obstacle was getting official permission to cross into the Netherlands, as the children were to embark on the ferry at Hoek van Holland. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Dutch government officially closed its borders to any Jewish refugees. The border guards, marechaussees, searched for them and returned any found to Germany, despite the horrors of Kristallnacht being well known.
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Франк Майслер (Frank Meisler) – израильский скульптор, чей талант признан далеко за пределами его страны.
Его монументальные работы можно увидеть в мегаполисах и небольших городах по всему миру, а образцы его малой скульптурной пластики выставляют самые престижные художественные галереи.
Постоянные галерейные экспозиции Майслера есть в Иерусалиме, Брюсселе, Лондоне, Майами, Нью-Йорке и Москве. А среди его крупных работ широко известны памятник Колумбу в Мадриде, «Иерусалимский фонтан» в Иерусалиме, «Тора» в немецком Мангейме, скульптурные группы шекспировского театра в Стретфорде, фонтан «FREEWHEELER» в Москве.
Но, наверное, самые значимые и трогательные городские скульптуры Майслера — памятники, посвященные еврейским детям, которых накануне Второй мировой войны вывезли на «Поездах жизни» в Англию с территорий, оккупированных нацистской Германией.Эти памятники стоят на вокзальных площадях пяти европейских городов – Лондоне, Роттердаме, Гамбурге, Берлине и Гданьске – бывшем Данциге, где когда-то жил сам Франк Майслер
Еще одна важная тема в творчестве Майслера — иудаика. Она включает и традиционные религиозные символы, которые принято дарить по большим праздникам, и полные юмора и оптимизма «светские» фигурки еврейских музыкантов, ремесленников и ребе
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Herborn Holocaust Memorial Nov 8 2013
A Memorial put on by the City of Herborn on the Dill River in Germany for the Jewish Families that were killed by the Nazis. This memorial was dedicated 75 years after Kristallnacht.
NICHOLAS WINTON - WikiVidi Documentary
Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport . Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The world found out about his work over 50 years later, in 1988. The British press dubbed him the British Schindler. In 2003 Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia. On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion , by Czech President Miloš Zeman....
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Shortcuts to chapters:
00:01:06: Early life
00:02:48: Rescue work
00:03:56: The Netherlands
00:06:13: Notable people saved
00:06:34: Second World War
00:07:31: Family life
00:08:36: Recognition
00:10:09: 100th birthday
00:10:30: Death
00:11:11: Honours
00:14:35: Winton train
00:15:30: Order of the White Lion
00:16:49: Popular culture
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Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE (born Nicholas Wertheim; 19 May 1909) is a British humanitarian who organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The British press has dubbed him the British Schindler.
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Nicholas Winton
Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The UK press has dubbed him the British Schindler.
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