REGISTER online: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
THURSDAY, March 17, 2011
Presenter: Eric Rosenfeld
TARGET AUDIENCE: Students in grades 5 - 12
TIME: Two sessions: one at 9:00 AM CENTRAL TIME and one at 10:00 AM CENTRAL TIME
COST: Cost for a videoconference session is $75.
FORMAT: Approximately 45 minutes in length. Format is about 25-30 minutes for the presentation and 15-20 minutes for an interactive question and answer session with the students and presenter.
Eric Rosenfeld knew what it meant 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 “Kindertransport” or “Children’s Transports”. Following Kristallnacht, “Night of the Broken Glass”, on November 9, 1938, 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 alone, without their parents. Nearly 10,000 children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia were rescued by the Kindertransport rescue movement. Eric Rosenfeld was one of the fortunate ones.
Through the efforts of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society who facilitated the "Children's Transports", Eric Rosenfeld was able to immigrate to the United States in August 1941. 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. The children were placed in foster homes, hostels, and farms or sent to extended family in the United States. Most of the rescued children survived the war. A small number were reunited with parents who had either spent the war in hiding or survived the Nazi camps. But the majority, at the end of the war, found their parents were dead.
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Patsy Partin, M.Ed
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