Commemorating the Kindertransports 80 Years On

Prague

19. 11. 2018 18:00

Maisel Synagogue, Maiselova 10, Prague 1

In the aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom, the British government, urged on by public opinion and the efforts of refugee aid groups, agreed to offer temporary refuge to unaccompanied children from Central Europe who were threatened by Nazi aggression. The effort, now known as the Kindertransports, ultimately saved 10,000 mostly Jewish children under the age of 17 from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland from the Holocaust. The transports left Central Europe by train to the Netherlands, then continued on by boat to Great Britain. Eighty years later, the Kindertransports are an important example of a community of rescue, essential for enabling rescue during the Holocaust.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransports, this multimedia event will combine talks from experts in the field as well video testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. Throughout the event, there will be screenings of survivor testimonies from the Shoah Foundation collection, including the testimony of Alfred Bader.

Speakers:
Laura Brade  (Assistant Professor, Albion College)
Yechiel Bar Chaim (currently an independent consultant on philanthropy who has worked with Dr. Alfred Bader for two decades)
Martin Šmok (Senior International Program Consultant, USC Shoah Foundation and an independent researcher)
Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences) will moderate the event.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary History Czech Academy of Sciences and the USC Shoah Foundation.

The event is sponsored by Bader Philanthropies and by the program Global Conflicts and Local Interactions, Strategy 21AV, the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Entry: free

Organizer: ŽMP


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