Re: [Cz-L] Kinder Transport Memorial

Thank you, Jerome - that is a lovely statue, bitter-sweet, too.
Those children, thankfully had their lives saved.
They were torn from their families, most of them
never to see their families again...

I, too had a cousin who was one of them - from Feurth, German.
She first wrote a fictional account of her experience, then a true one
(neither of which is still shown for sale on Amazon). The fictional one was
called "Eva", by Hanna Tennenhaus. I don't know the name of the
second book, but when I read "Eva", I was horrified. Hanna's
experience was terrible. The Jewish family who took her in treated
her as a servant and there were abuses, too. Her sister, who was
also in the Kindertransport, was more fortunate, but barely. Thankfully,
they both later ended up in Canada, married to good men, had families
and good lives, but were haunted by their wartime experiences.

This is not meant to generalize as some children were treated very well by
the sheltering families and these were the fortunate ones.

An aside - Hanna always loved to mention how she went to school in
Feurth with Henry Kissinger and, even in later life, still received warm
and chatty letters from him.

Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
To: "Czernowitz Discussion Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>; "Michael
Surkis" <mechelsurkis_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 10:46 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Kinder Transport Memorial

> For those of us who had/have relatives who made it out of Europe on the
> Kinder Transports (my cousin was one), this interesting link from Michel
> Surkis:
>
> http://talkingbeautifulstuff.com/2013/05/23/the-kindertransport-statue-liverpool-street-station-london/
>
> Best,
> jerome
>
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>
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