Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking
A documentary series using firsthand testimony to uncover the story of the Kindertransport - the rescue of 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria in 1938-39.
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking
Episode 2: What Was Left Behind
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The Association of Jewish Refugees
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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Fred Barschak can vividly remember the menu at his father's kosher restaurant. Otto Deutsch recalls his family's humble living conditions. And Ursula Gilbert remembers attending Berlin's grandest synagogue. These are some of the happy childhood memories that stand in stark contrast to subsequent tales of antisemitic taunts and a night of unprecedented violence.