Remembering Kindertransport

The Kindertransport was a British scheme to rescue nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi occupied territories and give them temporary refuge in Britain. The children arrived from December 1938 to September 1939. With the outbreak of war, borders were closed and all transports ceased.

Marion Walter was one of those thousands of Jewish children taken to England where she thrived as a student of mathematics.

She would later emigrate to the United States and become a professor of mathematics, including a final stint in Eugene at the University of Oregon.

The story of her life before and after Kindertransport is told in the documentary film, Remembering Kindertransport, produced by filmmaker and podcaster, Dick Jordan.

This episode of Imagery & Words is based on the soundtrack from that documentary.

You can watch the film's trailer here: https://vimeo.com/410852347?share=copy