Acknowledgments

With the November pogroms of 1938, the persecution of Jews throughout the entire National Socialist German Reich became considerably more severe. Yet where to go? Numerous Jewish families decided to at least get their children to safety as quickly as possible. Approximately one thousand unaccompanied children were able to leave for Belgium in the following months.

Their stories are in the centre of the three-year research and exhibition project

Saved – for the time being

Kindertransports to Belgium 1938/1939

The exhibition, which the Jawne Memorial and Educational Centre has developed in cooperation with Anne Prior, portrays this almost unknown rescue story for the very first time.

The sculptural installation der Tisch (the Table) made by Ludwig Dunkel uses artistic means to explore the themes of the exhibition.

We would like to very sincerely express our gratitude to Adi Bader of blessed memory, Joseph Birenbaum, Henriette Derschowitz, Henri Roanne-Rosenblatt, Susi Shipman of blessed memory, the Steuer family and Bernhard Szleper of blessed memory, who shared their life stories with us.

We would like to express our thanks to the members of the organisation l’Enfant Caché asbl./Het Ondergedoken Kind vzv., in particular Denis Baumerder, Eli Edelman, Marcel Frydman, Eugène Lipinsky, Adolphe Nysenholc, Régine Sluszny and Marka Syfer, for their trust and continuous support.

A special tribute goes to Johannes Blum, without whom this project would not have been possible.

We would also like to thank Adeline Fohn, Dorien Styven (Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen), Filip Strubbe (State Archives of Belgium, Brussels), Sylvain Brachfeld, Danny Teurelincx (Felix Archive, Antwerp), Birte Klarzyk, Nina Matuszewski of blessed memory, Ibrahim Basalamah (NS-Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne), Martina Strehlen (Old Synagogue Essen), the Project Group of the Jawne Memorial and Educational Centre, Juliane Rückriem, and many other colleagues and friends.