Kent's Kindertransport Legacy: An Author Talk with Deborah Cadbury and Mike Levy

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Join us for a special Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) author event featuring two distinguished authors, Deborah Cadbury and Mike Levy.

Deborah Cadbury is an acclaimed author, historian, and television producer. She will discuss her book, The School that Escaped the Nazis, which highlights the Kindertransport and the refuge provided to children in Kent. Deborah has received several international awards, including an Emmy.

Mike Levy is a researcher for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Association for Jewish Refugees. He is also an educator with the Holocaust Education Trust and Chair of The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust. Mike will talk about his book, Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport, which celebrates the bravery of those who helped rescue children during the Holocaust.

Deborah and Mike will each speak for 35-40 minutes, followed by a joint Q&A session. Deborah will join us remotely, while Mike will be present in person.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from two experts on the Kindertransport and learn more about this significant historical event.

The School that Escaped the Nazis, Deborah Cadbury 
Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022

The "devastatingly affecting and moving" true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's way (The Times of London).

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring to smuggle her school to the safety of England.

As the school she established in Kent, England, flourished despite the many challenges it faced, the news from her home country continued to darken. Anna watched as Europe slid toward war, with devastating consequences for the Jewish children left behind. In time, Anna would take in orphans who had escaped unimaginable horrors. Anna's school offered these scarred children the love and security they needed to rebuild their lives.

Featuring moving firsthand testimony from surviving pupils, and drawing from letters, diaries, and present-day interviews, The School that Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman's refusal to allow her belief in a better world to be overtaken by hatred and violence.

Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport

Mike Levy 
The grocer, the teacher, the soldier, the Quaker...

Mike Levy shines a light on the courageous deeds of twenty-two women and men who transformed the lives of the Kindertransport and other refugees. 

In 1938, when the Government refused to act and those around them turned a blind eye, these heroic individuals took it upon themselves to orchestrate one of the greatest lifesaving missions the world has ever seen.

Until now the compelling accounts of these extraordinary rescue missions have remained untold.