Amy Williams, at The Blogs

Feb 27, 2025, 7:03 PM

Why is it so controversial that the Auschwitz Museum confiscated hostage flags?

It was reported yesterday that the Auschwitz Museum confiscated hostage flags belonging to a group of British Jews who were touring the memorial site. Although national flags are permitted these flags seem to have violated the museum’s rules. As the flags had symbols on them...

Dec 18, 2024, 9:56 PM

A New Historical Finding: Kindertransport Lists

It has been repeatedly claimed by scholars that the lists of mainly Jewish children who escaped from Nazism to Britain and many other countries between 1938-1940 no longer exist or that only remnants of the lists survived. However, I have accessed Kindertransport lists to Britain...

Mar 10, 2022, 4:05 PM

How the Ukrainian refugee crisis has triggered a wave of Kindertransport activism across Europe

UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 01: Jewish Children Refugees Arriving From Germany In London On February 1939 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images/via Jewish News)

Within days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine photographs started to appear on social media of the Kindertransport memorials in London, Prague and Alkmaar draped in the Ukraine flag. The message “safe passage now” was printed on a brown luggage label, similar to the ones...

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Dr Amy Williams is currently working with Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Yale University Press, and Camden House to produce new books on the history and memory of the Kindertransport. Dr Amy Williams is a current fellow at Yad Vashem.