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kindertransport

As a young girl, Lori Shearn was saved from the Nazis through a brief ad in the London Jewish Chronicle.
Posted inBay Area, World, History, News, Seniors

How 20 words in a Jewish newspaper saved this Marin woman from the Holocaust

by Mathilde Frot June 9, 2021

This article was originally published in London’s Jewish Chronicle, and is reprinted with permission.  A Holocaust survivor whose desperate mother placed a classified ad in the Jewish Chronicle in 1938 […]

Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020
Author Meg Waite Clayton
Posted inBooks

Bay Area novelist brings Kindertransports to life

by Ilana DeBare September 4, 2019September 6, 2019
Helga Newman at age 9 in Austria, April 1939
Posted inCommunity

80 years later, Palo Alto woman’s story of rescue by Kindertransport

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 25, 2019April 29, 2019
Posted inCulture

‘Diaspora’ collages create layers of meaning at library exhibit

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 31, 2018January 30, 2018
black and white -- long line of children disembarking a ship
Posted inOpinion

Children of Nazi travel ban stand up for children of Trump travel ban

Edmon Rodman by Edmon J. Rodman February 3, 2017February 24, 2017
Posted inHistory

Reunions have healed Kinder, organizer says here

Natalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Natalie Weinstein June 12, 1998February 26, 2024

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