This week we commemorated the life of Rabbi Harry Jacobi with a new LIVES IN FOCUS short film. Rabbi Jacobi was one of the major figures in British Liberal Judaism. On May 22 it will be 81 years since he arrived in Liverpool on the SS Bodegraven with the last group of 74 Kindertransportees. Watch the film here:
Sir Ralph Kohn was also on board the Bodegraven:
We also celebrated the life of Sir Nicholas Winston, who saved the lives of more than 600 children by organising Czech Kindertransports.
We featured an ad placed on behalf of Lillian Heyman by her fiance:
And we learned about Gisela Feldman's disturbing experiences on board the St. Louis