Sanctuary80 Talk Series

Hear from four speakers about a range of topics exploring the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport refugees at Harwich in 1938 and what it means today. Includes an interactive theatre event, Stage 3, by Peoples Palace and Safe Passage’s National Campaign.

11.30am Welcome

11.40am Britain and the Kindertransport 1938-1940, by Barbara Warnock, from The Wiener Library.

12.10pm ‘From Hitler to Hi-de-Hi’, the role of the Dovercourt Holiday Camp in the first months of the Kindertransport, by Mike Levy, Fellow, Holocaust Centre Imperial War Museum.

12.40pm 100 Images of Migration exhibition, presented by the Migration Museum, London.

1.00 Lunch

2.00pm Stage 3, drama and discussion by Peoples Palace and Safe Passage’s National Campaign.

2.30pm Time to explore the Harwich Station Museum

3.00pm Migration in Historical Context and the 21^st Century, by Martin Simmonds from The Suffolk Refugee Support

3.30pm Memory of the Kindertransports in national and transnational perspectives, by Amy Williams, Nottingham Trent University.

4.00pm Discussion and questions with the speakers.