Lilly Maier: Arthur und Lilly. Rettung jüdischer Kinder durch den Kindertransport in die USA

In the organizer's words:

The history of the Kindertransports is considered one of the few positive chapters in Holocaust research: over 15,000 Jewish children were saved because their parents were prepared to part with them. But hardly anyone knows about the rescue of Jewish children to France - and from there on to the USA.

Lilly Maier tells the impressive life story of the Viennese boy Oswald Kernberg, who was rescued in this way. The reading also mentions the reform pedagogue Ernst Papanek, who conveyed hope and democracy to the children in France.

Lilly Maier studied history at LMU Munich and journalism at New York University on a Fulbright scholarship. Her LMU thesis on Kindertransporte won an award. She has been working at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial since 2012 and is currently writing her doctoral thesis on women as rescuers of Jews during the Shoah.

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