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/ Friday, May 3, 2024
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1928, Lotte Schmerzler was sent to France with her older brother via the Kindertransport. In 1940, the two siblings fled to Portugal and snuck onto a boat headed for the United States, where they reunited with their mother in New York. (02:00:04)
/ Friday, May 3, 2024
Honey Chester was born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1928. At age 10, she was sent to England via the Kindertransport where she reunited with her siblings. She lost her parents and extended family members in the Holocaust. (02:25:11)
/ Friday, May 3, 2024
Holocaust survivor David Fertig was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1922 to Polish parents. He escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport at age 16 to live with cousins in England, where he joined the Royal Air Force. (02:04:22)
/ Friday, May 3, 2024
Shown at Witness for the Future: Holocaust Memory in a Post-Survivor World at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin on May 6, 2024. 
/ Thursday, May 9, 2024