Kindertransport: The Remarkable Rescue of 10,000 Children in the Holocaust

A Zoom webinar lecture by Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence, Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center

Because Jewish children were targeted for annihilation by the Nazis just like their parents, an emergency rescue operation was set up right after Kristallnacht in 1938 to send them to the United Kingdom, where foster parents promised to shelter them throughout the war. Often, the children were the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust. How this program came to be founded, how it managed to operate, and the way the children experienced it form the miraculous story of the world-renowned Kindertransport.

Discussion leader, Dr. Linda Burghardt, the Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center, is a journalist and author in New York.  She worked as an independent reporter for The New York Times for 20 years and is the author of three non-fiction books.  Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous newspapers across the U.S. and overseas, including, most recently, the Times of Israel, and she has lectured to both national and international audiences.  She holds a Ph.D. from Long Island University and is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Vienna.