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Speaker: Dr. Debórah Dwork
Date: July 21, 2021
Location: Zoom (Part of the 19th Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah")
Description: This video is a recording of the talk by Dr. Debórah Dwork, the founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center – City University of New York. In her presentation entitled "Kindertransporte During the Holocaust," Dr. Dwork explained how close to 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland managed to escape the Nazis and reach the UK from 1938 until 1940.