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In commemoration of the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht on Nov. 9th-10th, join an immersive and personal discussion of the connection between the Night of Broken Glass and the creation of the Kindertransport with Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in New York.
Few people have ever been told that something positive came out of Kristallnacht. Because Jewish children were targeted for annihilation by the Nazis just like their parents, an emergency rescue operation was set up as a direct result of Kristallnacht in 1938 to send them to England, where foster homes throughout Britain promised to shelter them throughout the war. Often, they were the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust. How this program came to be founded, how it managed to operate, and the way the 10,000 children whose lives were saved experienced it form the miraculous story of the world-renowned Kindertransport.
Dr. Burghardt is a journalist and author from New York. As the daughter of two Holocaust survivors from Vienna, her work has always been guided by her heritage.