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Sir Nicholas Winton

At Platform 1 at the main train station in Prague - This is a statue of Nicholas Winton who, at the age of 29 in 1939, saved 669 children by finding places for them in Britain. They would have otherwise perished in Nazi concentration camps. The children left Czechoslovakia from this train station, Praha - hlavní nádraží (it was called the Wilson Station back then). There was one last train which was to carry an additional 250 children that never left because the borders were closed on September 1, 1939.
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Kathe Kollwitz

On our way to Schloss Moritzburg, I noticed a sign for Kathe-Kollwitz- Gedenkstaette. The name rang a bell, so after touring the amazing hunting castle of Augustus the Strong we went looking for it. About 300 meters away was her house - not her long-term house in Berlin, obviously, but the house where she fled to avoid the Allied bombings for her last two years and where she died on 22 April 1945.

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Pre-trip

In less than one week, I will be traveling to Berlin, Germany for my first ever international conference/institute.  I am both excited and slightly nervous for what lies ahead.  I am excited in the fact that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to come together with nearly 80 other education professionals from multiple countries to learn further about the plight and preservation of the Jewish heritage.  I am dually nervous in that I have never been to Europe and am curious as to how well I will be able to adjust to staying in a foreign country for 1 week with virtually no kn

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Press, Snowden

Hi everyone,

Just finished reading Eyal Press' "Beautiful Souls". No wonder the "Snowden affair" rings a loud bell to it - neither a spy, nor a hardcore right/left-winger, just an ordinary (or so it seems to be) citizen from within the system who carries the world on his shoulders and trying to save it, always in the name of his own society's best principles!

Here you can see him talking to The Guardien, and i also  found a transcript of the full interview. Very illuminating, and the talkbacks are worth looking at either...

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Getting ready for Germany!

Today is July 16th, and I will be in Berlin in one week.  I am looking forward to another fantastic learning experience with the Centropa team!  Last summer  I was hesitant to travel to Germany, and this summer I can not wait.  I am looking forward to getting to know Berlin better, as well as reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.  I am also excited about having been asked to lead the Kindertransport elective.

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2013 CSA

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Hi Everyone,

I look forward to meeting new teachers and seeing veterans at this year's CSA.  I'll be arriving a day late due to a family event happening that same week.

Can't wait to greet everyone in Berlin!

Lauren

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Schloss Sonnenstein

Near the 15th century castle, a sanitarium was opened near Pirna, Germany, just south of Dresden. Like Grafeneck, it still serves the handicapped through a company located there which employs them. The psychiatric hospital had been closed in 1939. The Nazis took over the building and installed a gas chamber and crematorium. some 100 people were employed there and by 24 August 1941, when Hitler officially "ended" Action T4, 13,270 men, women, and chiuldren had been murdered there in the name of science.

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SCHÖNINGER BÜRGER: OPFER DES HOLOCAUSTS

My wife, Jane, and I moved to Schöningen, Germany in 1972.  At that time we had no idea that this small town was the birth place of her uncle,  William Cohen.  In fact, it was uncanny that Jane ended up teaching in the same school William graduated from. When we wrote to her aunt that we were in Schöningen, she proceded to tell us about the wonderful times she had walking with her husband "in den Elm", a beautiful forest outside of the town.

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