Conference Programme

9.00-9.30 Welcome

9.30-11.00 The Kindertransport in British Historiography (chair: Raphael Gross, LBI)

Tony Kushner (University of Southampton): The Battle of Britishness: The Kinder’s Perfect Journeys

Rose Holmes (University of Sussex): Quakers and the Kindertransport: The Neglect of the Voluntary
Tradition

Jennifer Craig-Norton (University of Southampton): The Historiography’s Missing Pieces: What the
Letters of Carers reveal

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 New Research on the Kindertransport Experience after 1945 (chair: Andreas Gestrich,
GHI)

Elizabeth Heineman (University of Iowa): Kindertransport: Family Aftermaths

Bea Lewkowicz (IGRS, University of London): The Refugee Voices Archive and the Kindertransport

Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth University): Kindertransportees: Writing their own History

13.00-14.30 Lunch (own arrangement)

14.30-16.00 The Second Generation Experience (chair: Bea Lewkowicz, IGRS, University of
London)

Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Melissa Hacker, Karen Goodman, and Melissa Rosenbaum

16.00-16.30 Tea

16.30-18.00 Memorialization of the Kindertransport (chair: Daniel Wildmann LBI/Queen Mary,
University of London)

Nathan Abrams (Bangor University): The Kindertransport in Film

Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum, London): The Kindertransport Story at the Imperial War Museum

Judith Vandervelde (Jewish Museum, London): The
Stories we tell… and the Stories we don’t:
Multiple Interpretations at the Jewish Museum

18.00-18.30 Wine reception & opening of exhibition
’Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain’

18.30-19.15 Concert:

What a Life! - Singing a Song in a Foreign Land
Norbert Meyn, Tenor; Malcolm Miller, Piano
German tenor and RCM Professor Norbert Meyn together with pianist and musicologist Dr Malcolm
Miller will perform a short recital of songs from the revue What a Life! by Hans Gál, written and
performed in 1940 in the internment camp near Douglas, Isle of Man, interspersed with readings
from the composer's diary Music behind Barbed Wire.

Admission is free. Places are strictly limited and must be reserved in advance by contacting the Leo
Baeck Institute London, e-mail: info@leobaeck.co.uk; t: +44 (0) 2078825690

For further information, please contact the Leo Baeck Institute: info@leobaeck.co.uk