Nicholas Winton

Nicholas Winton

male, 100 years old
World War II, helped Jews during the Holocaust, Kindertransport, Order of the British Empire, death camps, Nazi extermination camp
Sir Nicholas Winton MBE (born May 19 1909) is a Briton who organized the rescue of about 669 Jewish Czech children from their doomed fate in the...
Hedy Epstein

Hedy Epstein

female, 85 years old
Israeli, Hedi Epstein, Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport, immigrant to the United States, conflict
Hedi Epstein is a Holocaust survivor who escaped Germany in 1939 as a child, by way of the Kindertransport, and currently resides in the United...
Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo

female, 33 years old
Ohio University, Norwegian-American, Portuguese-American, Kindertransport, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Norwegian American
Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is an American movie actress.
Karen Gershon

Karen Gershon

female, deceased (1993)
British women writer, Women poet, I was not there, Kaethe Loewenthal, We came as Children A Collective Autobiography, Kindertransport
Karen Gershon, born "Kaethe Loewenthal" (1923 - 1993) was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938. Her book...
Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias

male, 76 years old
Columbia University, City University of New York, physicist, Astronomer, Jewish American, naturalized citizen of the United States…Kindertransport
Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and a co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. He was born in Munich,...
Samuel Hoare

Samuel Hoare

male, deceased (1959)
World War I, Kindertransport, Diplomatic peer, British, conservative, British Secretary of State
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC (24 February 1880 - 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was...

Celia Keenan-Bolger

female
Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Saved!, Tony Award, Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, Palo Alto’s Theatreworks, Sundance Theatre Lab…Kindertransport
Celia Keenan-Bolger is an American actress and singer. She most recently appeared in the limited engagement revival of the Broadway musical "Les...
Ari Rath

Ari Rath

male, 84 years old
Israeli, Bundesverdienstkreuz, Anschluss, Kindertransport, University of Potsdam, Newspaper editor
Ari Rath (b. 1925 in Vienna) is an Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer. Rath grew up in Vienna. After the "Anschluss" he came through a...
Otto Plaschkes

Otto Plaschkes

male, deceased (2005)
death by myocardial infarction, Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, British, lawrence of arabia, georgy girl…Kindertransport
Otto Plaschkes (13 September 1929 - 14 February 2005) was a British-Jewish film producer. Born in Vienna, Plaschkes left for England at the age of...
Else Hirsch

Else Hirsch

female, 120 years old
Jewish, children transport, Reichskristallnacht, Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden, Kindertransport, British Mandate of Palestine
Else Hirsch was a Jewish teacher in Bochum, Germany, who helped Jewish children to emigrate from the Third Reich. Else Hirsch came from Berlin to...