Because Jewish children were targeted for annihilation by the Nazis just like their parents, an emergency rescue operation was set up right after 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 children experienced it form the miraculous story of the world-renowned Kindertransport.
Linda Burghardt is the scholar-in-residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove and a journalist and author from Great Neck.
She worked as a freelance reporter for The New York Times for twenty years and is the author of three non-fiction books.
Her articles and essays have appeared in newspapers across the U.S.,\ and she has lectured to both national and international audiences on a variety of topics.
She holds a Ph.D. from LIU Post and is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Vienna.
This lecture will be at the Great Neck Library located at 159 Bayview Ave., Great Neck, NY, on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m.
Registration is not required.
For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.
