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Book talk: Andrea Hammel, The Kindertransport: what really happened

Join The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark the publication of Andrea Hammel’s important new book on the Kindertransport child rescue scheme, based on extensive new research. In this talk Andrea Hammel will show what really happened using her research into governmental and organisational records as well as oral testimonies and ego documents.

Expelled! The History of the “Polenaktion”

On the last weekend of October 1938, 25,000 Jews with Polish passports were arrested, rounded up and deported by train to the Polish border. This exhibition marks the 85th anniversary of the expulsion.
Heritage Fund The Association of Jewish Refugees Federal Foreign Office
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