The National Exhibit of:
“Kindertransport ~ Saving the Children”

April 12 through May 2, 2009 Daily 1 PM to 4 PM.

In 1938, immediately after the November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom in the German Reich, the Jews of Britain initiated the unique rescue operation now known as 'Kindertransport'. Within days they obtained the permission of the government and, in the nine months leading up to World War II, with aid from Quaker and other non-Jewish refugee organizations, brought nearly ten thousand unaccompanied children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to safety in Britain. Most of the children, but not all, were Jews. Most of the parents who had sent them to safety perished in the Holocaust. Most of the children settled in Britain; others re-emigrated to Israel, the Americas, and elsewhere, scattering over the world. This exhibit tells their story then and now. Learn more at www.kindertransport.org

The Exhibit is free to Museum Members & all children under 16. $5.00 general admission. Call for group rates.

To schedule a group tour call the Jewish History Museum office at 520-670-9073 Local Kindertransport members will be available to speak with your group.

The Documentary Film The Children Who Cheated The Nazis will be shown at the JHM Sunday April 19, 2009 7:30 p.m. Limited seating is available.