UPCOMING KTA EVENTS
Kindertransport: A Transnational Journey
DECEMBER 1, 2024
The KTA is thrilled to be partnering with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility to support exciting new scholarship on the Kindertransports:Kindertransport: A Transnational JourneyBy Amy Williams and William Niven, to be published by Yale University Press in 2024, in the 85th year after the Kindertransports.
Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna
DECEMBER 9, 2021 to APRIL 30, 2022
The exhibition is devoted to Viennese children who were sent abroad without their parents from winter 1938 to the start of World War II in autumn 1939. The children who escaped to countries that were later invaded by the Nazis were once again caught up in the deadly persecution and in some cases failed to survive. Great Britain, which took in the largest number of children, appeared to be a safe haven. But the arrival there also marked the end of childhood.
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World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants Conference
NOVEMBER 5-8, 2021
The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D)32nd Annual Conference, St. Louis, MI November 5-November 8, 2021. This conference was postponed from the original dates in fall 2020. After this break, the WF Conferences will continue to bring together the community of generations of Child Holocaust Survivors.The Kindertransport Association (KTA) will be there, as will members of Generations of the Shoah International (GSI). Join us!
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War
JULY 22, 2021 to OCTOBER 31, 2021
The exhibit "Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War" originated in NYC, will be on display at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis July 22-October 31. This exhibit illuminates the story of the Kindertransport and explores the difficult and often heartbreaking journeys through original artifacts, personal stories and engaging media.KTA President Melissa Hacker and KT2 Uri Berliner will speak on University Day in September.
Visualization of the new Vienna Memorial
Inauguration Ceremony of Vienna Holocaust Memorial
OCTOBER 17, 2021
A memorial to the Jewish children, women and men of Austria who were murdered in the Holocaust is being installed in Ostarrichi Park, Vienna.Research was conducted by the Documentations Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The DÖW Database of Shoah Victims contains over 64,000 Names. DÖW knows that a further 1,000 people were murdered, but Names have been lost. All the Names in the DÖW Database of Shoah Victims will be engraved on the Memorial Walls of Names.
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Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-59
JUNE 16, 2021 to SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
An exhibit, on a Kindertransport Survivor and brilliant artist, opening in London and online. Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-59Online talks begin April 28, with a Curators tour of th upcoming exhibit..
Becoming Dr. Ruth
JUNE 4-27, 2021
Becoming Dr. Ruth chronicles the life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, from her early years fleeing Nazi Germany, living as an orphan in Switzerland, time as a sharpshooter in the Israeli armed forces, and her life and career in New York. It is a humorous and heartfelt portrait detailing Dr. Ruth's remarkable journey to become a pioneer in the psychology of human sexuality and the world's most famous sex therapist.Tony and Emmy Award-nominee Tovah Feldshuh stars in this illuminating one-woman show.
