The First Kindertransport Exhibition in Berlin

Academics in the School of Arts and Humanities have recently opened a new Kindertransport exhibition, ‘At the End of the Tunnel’, in Berlin. The outdoor exhibition is the first Kindertransport exhibition ever to show in Berlin, and the first in Germany to present the...

Am Ende des Tunnels (At the End of the Tunnel)

The Kindertransport remembered.  The opening of an exhibition in front of the Charlottenburg, Berlin railway station on 15 August and continuing until 13 October, 2019. A united German/British venture. Eighty years ago, between November 1938 and September 1939, ten...

Stolperstein Verlegung in Koblenz: May 8, 2018

My heart-felt thanks to all of you who have come to witness the laying of Stolpersteine for my three aunts.  Perhaps the year was 1937. I would have been five years old when I walked through the front door of the grand house that stood here at Markenbildchenweg 30. I...

A Jew in a Lutheran School

Sometimes Reading the FB feed Leaves me with sadness And then …I see an invitation Posted by Petra our friend, From Gemünd. ‘A reunion of former students of The Evangelische Schule will Take place on Saturday 9 September.’ The program: Sharing...

An Old Postcard

An old postcard Tiny, blurry photos. Have you ever experienced a Flashback to your own past As you scroll down IG or FB? Petra, a friend from Gemünd, Posted this photo yesterday. The building on the lower left Is my first school. Jewish children were allowed To attend...

Symbols

As I watch swastikas carried through the crowded streets of Charlottesville, VA, USA, on August 12, 2017, another picture comes to mind. I am in my home town, Gemünd (Eifel), Germany. The date is April 29, 1937. The streets are crowded with people. There are...