Fall 2026 OLLI Digital Catalog

INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS (G578)

G – History

Between late 1938 and the outbreak of war in 1939, about 10,000 Jewish children between the ages of five and 15 were able to escape Nazi-controlled Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Britain via the Kindertransport. The children, minus their parents, were allowed to enter Britain under a limited visa waiver program sponsored and supported by the British Jewish community and various charitable groups. Most of the children would never see their parents again.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Nicholas Simmonds

SIMMONDS, NICHOLAS — B.A., international relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; M.A., international relations, University of Sussex. Retired from a career in marketing and public relations in the nonprofit sector. Child of a Holocaust survivor who escaped to the UK from Nazi Germany in 1938.

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