The traveling exhibition ”For the Child” was put together in 2014 by Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre and commemorates the children and adolescents who escaped the murderous machinery of the Nazis with the so-called “Kindertransport” (Refugee Children’s Movement). Until mid-2025, the exhibition will be displayed at new locations in Vienna.
Around 2,500 children were brought to England and removed out of harm’s way on 23 trains from Vienna’s Westbahnhof train station between December 1938 and August 1939. More than two thirds of them never saw their parents again; often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust. Based on the few belongings that these children were allowed to take with them, the traveling exhibition tells of their fates and of the history of the Kindertransport.
From December 10, 2024, to January 30, 2025, “For the Child” can be viewed at the Kenyongasse Education Center (7th Viennese district, Kenyongasse 4-12); and from March to June 2025 at the ÖGB headquarters Wehlistraße (2nd Viennese district, Johann-Böhm-Platz 1). PR consultant Milli Segal is in charge of the exhibition.
- Kenyongasse Education Center: https://www.kenyon.at/ (in German)
- ÖGB headquarters Wehlistraße: registration for guided tours for school classes: info@millisegal.at
