Life After the War (Conclusion)

Photos
KTA 1991 newspaper
KTA 1991 picture
Suzanne & Lysa in France
and in Israel

In November 1990 I went to my first Kindertransport reunion in Ellenville, New York, which is in the Catskills. It was a wonderful reunion giving me the first opportunity to talk about my experience as a young child coming alone to England to escape the Holocaust. We the Kinder, as we call ourselves, were no longer the ones to whom “nothing had happened”. We had lost our childhood and were Holocaust survivors. The following year in April 1991 my buddy Alfred Cotton, who was also on the Kindertransports and I decided to hold the first Northern California Reunion. On a Sunday afternoon almost 100 people met in Emeryville (next to Oakland and Berkeley) of which about 45 were on the Kindertransports and we formed the NorCal chapter of the Kindertransport Association (KTA) During these years before my retirement I also started traveling extensively. In 1992, I took my daughters to London and Dresden and the following year we went to Israel. In October 1994 I visited New York and Washington DC to see the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In October 1995 I went to England and France and in 1996 to Cuba with Berkeley Congregation Netivot Shalom to set up sisterhood relations with the Jewish congregation in Santiago de Cuba.

In August 1997 I retired from BART and from then on spent my time traveling, organizing events for the NorCal Chapter of KTA and speaking to local schools about the Holocaust and my experience.

NOTE

For more information on the Kindertransport Association

go to their website:

www.kindertransport.org