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Danny Altmann is the son of John Altmann, who arrived as a refugee from the Holocaust on the Kindertransport
After his #Kindertransport, Stefan Ruff was housed in a Jewish old age home in Walton-on-the-Naze.
"I was a little distressed. The great aim was to get a family to take you into their home. Nobody ever showed any interest in me. I was most upset. I thought ‘Why don’t they’?"
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"I was a little distressed. The great aim was to get a family to take you into their home. Nobody ever showed any interest in me. I was most upset. I thought ‘Why don’t they’?"
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"From there we were shipped to another refugee camp: Clayton House, near Ipswich. My father placed an advert in the British pharmaceutical press before they went to Shanghai, March of 1939, asking if anybody would want me. A pharmacist in Glasgow volunteered, a Christian family."
"I stayed with that family. But, at that time, school-leaving age was 14. The thought of me going to school after 14 or even going to university never entered their head. As far as they were concerned, I was 14, I didn’t need to go to school, I needed to find somewhere to work."
Im @jewishmuseumVIE hat eine ausgezeichnete und bewegende Ausstellung zu den #Kindertransporten aus Wien eröffnet. Ein Thema, das in Österreich weitgehend unbeachtet blieb. Bitte seht euch diese Ausstellung an.
2013 hat Steven Pressman einen Dokumentarfilm über seine Schwiegereltern produziert. Jahr 1939: Das jüdische Ehepaar Gilbert & Eleanor Kraus verhilft 50 jüd. Kindern via #Kindertransport zur Ausreise aus Nazi-Wien aber stößt auf viele Herausforderungen.
50childrenfilm.com/The_Film.html
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Der Film wurde auf HBO ausgestrahlt und ist in der Kategorie „Outstanding Historical Programming“ für einen Emmy nominiert worden. Dennoch hat das österreichische TV bis heute kein Interesse gezeigt…
As a Jew I cannot forget the fact that in lead up to the Second World War, knowing full well of the tragedy that was about to strike the Jewish people in Europe, country after country declared that it had no more room for more than a handful of immigrants.
Britain was among the very best at that time, rescuing some 10,000 children in the operation known as the Kindertransport.
#Kindertransport was a light in the deepest, darkest night of #humanity, and an act of rescue that created 10,000 stories of #hope. Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, when the first children arrived in Britain fleeing Nazi Europe.
