The Leo Baeck Institute London is happy to announce a symposium under the title 'Forward from the Past' The Kindertransport from a Contemporary Perspective to be held on the occasion of the 75 anniversary of the Kindertransport, to commemorate this historical event and to explore its fascinating aftermath.
Forward from the Past: The Kindertransport from a Contemporary Perspective
This conference examines the Kindertransport to Britain 1938/1939. The four panels will focus on newly developed research, including the Kindertransport in British historiography, the Kindertransport experience after 1945; the issue of contemporary memorialization of the Kindertransport, and the Second-generation perspective of the Kindertransport The conference will shed new insights into the 20th century Kindertransport phenomenon.
Conference organisers: The Leo Baeck Institute London in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Aberystwyth University and the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, University of London.
Conference Programme
9.00-9.30 Welcome 9.30-11.00 The Kindertransport in British Historiography (chair: Raphael Gross, LBI)
Tony Kushner (University of Southampton): The Battle of Britishness: The Kinder’s Perfect Journeys
Rose Holmes (University of Sussex): Quakers and the Kindertransport: The Neglect of the Voluntary Tradition
Jennifer Craig-Norton (University of Southampton): The Historiography’s Missing Pieces: What the Letters of Carers reveal
11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.00 New Research on the Kindertransport Experience after 1945 (chair: Andreas Gestrich, GHI)
Elizabeth Heineman (University of Iowa): Kindertransport: Family Aftermaths
Bea Lewkowicz (IGRS, University of London): The Refugee Voices Archive and the Kindertransport
Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth University): Kindertransportees: Writing their own History
13.00-14.30 Lunch (own arrangement) 14.30-16.00 The Second Generation Experience (chair: Bea Lewkowicz, IGRS, University of London)
Panel Discussion with Karen Goodman, Melissa Rosenbaum, Melissa Hacker and Debbie Levy (tbc)
16.00-16.30 Tea 16.30-18.00 Memorialization of the Kindertransport (chair: Daniel Wildmann LBI/Queen Mary, University of London)
Nathan Abrams (Bangor University): The Kindertransport in Film
Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum, London): The researching of the Kindertransport story for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
Rüdiger Goerner (Queen Mary, University of London): The Kindertransport in Literature
Held at the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ
