For the Child – The Story of the Kindertransport
October 17-31, 2022 Ottawa City Hall
Hosted in Cooperation with the Embassy of Austria and the British High Commissioner under the Auspices of Mayor Watson
Exhibition Overview
The “For the Child” photographic exhibition tells the story of the organized rescue transport of Jewish children to Great Britain in 1938-1939. This bilingual exhibit will offer an excellent opportunity for the community to learn about the incredible story of the
Kindertransport – a topic that has never been presented in Ottawa. The Kindertransport rescue enabled more than 10,000 children who were considered Jewish, according to the Nuremberg race laws, to depart for Great Britain from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia between the end of November 1938 and September 1, 1939.
The exhibit, organized by the Vienna Memorial Museum, includes 30 photographs of objects the children took with them on their journey over 80 years ago. Each shows an original suitcase containing objects carried by a child as they travelled into an unknown future. In many instances, the objects represent the last physical contact a child had with their parents.
The exhibit “For the Child” has already been successfully displayed in Vienna, London, Berlin and recently at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. CHES will host the exhibit in Ottawa this October in cooperation with the Embassy of Austria and the British High Commissioner under the auspices of Mayor Watson. Lesson plan available for teachers here.
