About
KTA
KTA (Kindertransport Association) was formed in North America as a result
of the first worldwide Kindertransport reunion, held in London in 1989.
KTA - a not-for-profit organization with regional chapters in the U.S.
and Canada - has an active 2nd -generation group, publishes a newsletter,
holds national conferences and regional gatherings, sponsors a speakers
bureau, engages in charitable activities, and belongs to the Federation
of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust. At the London reunion from
which KTA sprang, it became clear that while everyone knew a little piece
of the Kindertransport story, the story as a whole was on the verge of
being lost. KTA - with its sister organizations, RoK in the U.K. and Israel
- has become a major force in the recovery of this almost lost story.
It serves as a resource for outside researchers, film makers and writers,
and sponsors and supports work by its own members: oral histories; a Memory
Quilt; and this exhibit, The Kindertransport Story.
About
the author and designer
Robert Sugar was eight when he left Vienna on a Kindertransport in January
1939. He spent the next nine years on the Millisle refugee farm in Northern
Ireland, and arrived in New York in 1948. A graphic designer, art director,
and author, Robert Sugar still lives in New York. He has written and designed
extensive material on Jewish history. His previous exhibit, From Vienna
to Belfast: Children of the Farm, recounted his personal experience.
The present exhibit tells the larger story of Kindertransport. He is a former
member of the Executive Board of KTA.
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