2) THURSDAY, October 29, 2009 -
“Sanctuary via Kindertransport” with Eric Rosenfeld in the Holocaust series
Targeted Audience: students in grades 5 – 12
Eric Rosenfeld knows what it means to be isolated, persecuted, and faced with almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis. His mother’s last-ditch attempt to save the life of her son was the “Children’s Transports” where groups of children were transported for sanctuary via a program called "Kindertransport." The children had to be between the ages of 3 and 17, and they had to leave Germany alone, without their parents.
Eric waved to his mother for the last time as she waited on the train platform; later that year, his mother was sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz where she died. Eric sailed with 900 other refugees on a converted 8,000 ton Portuguese coal ship, after traveling by train with seven other teenagers from Berlin to Lisbon, Portugal. Eric Rosenfeld was able to immigrate to the United States in August 1941. This was four months BEFORE Pearl Harbor.
ALL Videoconferences:
Time: 9:00 and 10:00 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then 15-20 minute Q & A
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu
REGISTER: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
