Jul

13 2022

Holocaust Speaker Series: Sarah Schneider

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Contact Rhonda Scarborough
info@cincyhhc.org

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, July 13 at 11:00 am via Zoom with Sarah Schneider. 

In the fall of 1941, two sisters, Helli and Rita Buchholz, arrived in Cincinnati. Originally from Vienna, Austria, the girls’ parents made the difficult decision to send them on a children’s transport to France in March 1939. In France, the girls lived at the Rothschild estate Château de la Guette with about 130 other Jewish refugee children. There, the children and their educators built a vibrant and resilient community, learning, living, and playing together. As WorldWar II progressed, the children’s circumstances became much more difficult and the children were forced to disperse. Helli and Rita were lucky to be among those who were able to make it to the United States and rebuild their lives in Cincinnati. Learn more about Rita and Helli’s story, and a group of Jewish refugee children who fled Nazism via France, in this Holocaust Speaker Series presentation led by Rita’s granddaughter, Sarah.

Sarah Schneider is a public historian who works with oral history interviews at the Science History Institute’s Center for Oral History. She previously served as the Program Coordinator at the Holocaust & Humanity Center, and her Master’s thesis highlighted the story of Jewish refugee children who lived at Château de la Guette children’s home in France.

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Generously sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine and presented in partnership with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.