The Kindertransport is generally remembered favorably, even romantically, as a heroic British effort that facilitated the rescue of 10,000 innocent children from the clutches of the Nazis from 1938-39.

The actual story is more complex. Dr. Jennifer Craig-Norton, historian, scholar and author of The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory (2019) provides a counter-narrative to the superficial understandings of the Kindertransport. Dr. Craig-Norton will also share her present research on the little-known story of the 20,000 Jewish women who escaped Nazi Germany and Austria by procuring work visas to England as Domestics in the late 1930s.

Adding to the authenticity of the evening, Dr. Craig-Norton will be joined in dialogue by Oakland resident Ralph Samuel, a child refugee who was saved from Nazi Germany by the Kindertransport and whose mother was one of the Domestics with a work visa.

Temple Sinai member Naomi Katz, whose mother and grandmother were also saved by the Domestics program, will introduce the speakers and moderate the program. 

Co-sponsored by Temple Sinai's Children of Holocaust Survivors Group and Women of Temple Sinai (WTS).

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