Opening EVENT: The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History Exhibit
EXHIBIT TIMELINE: November 12 through April 21, 2024
The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County in partnership with the Kindertransport Association presents
The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History
November 12, 2023 – April 21, 2024
Opening Event Sunday, November 12, 223 1pm
In this 85th year of the Kindertransports, please join us for this special exhibit.
In the nine months between the pogrom of November 9, 1938 (Kristallnacht “the Night
of Broken Glass”) and the start of World War II, a bold rescue operation now known as
the Kindertransport brought nearly ten thousand children, most, but not all, Jewish,
from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to safety in Great Britain. Much
smaller numbers of children were sent to France, the Netherlands, Sweden,
Switzerland, Palestine, the United States, and Australia. Most of the parents who sent them to
safety perished in the Holocaust. Many of the children settled in Britain; others re-
emigrated to Israel, the Americas, and elsewhere, scattering over the world. Some live
today in New York and Long Island and will be speaking at the opening.
Kindertransport Survivor Robert Sugar has created a series of exhibition panels that
trace these children’s epic journeys from 1938 into the 21st century. Robert fled Vienna
at age six and spent the war years on the Millisle Refugee Settlement Farm in Northern
Ireland. This exhibit shares the arc of Kindertransport history and details of the lives of
individual Kinder and their families. It is an effort to retrieve the almost-lost story of an
almost-lost generation.
To learn more about the kindertransports www.kindertransport.org
There will be refreshments at the event.