The KHC mourns the recent passing of Anita Nagel Weisbord, a Holocaust survivor and longtime volunteer with the Center. Anita was born in Vienna in 1923, and lived a comfortable life with her family until Hitler’s invasion of Austria in 1938. After Kristallnacht, her father was arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp and her mother knew it was time to take action. Realizing it would be nearly impossible to secure visas to leave the country, her mother made the difficult decision to send Anita to safety in England on the Kindertransport. The Kindertransport, or children’s transport, was a rescue effort that saved 10,000 refugee Jewish children from Nazi-occupied areas to protection in Great Britain.

Over the years Anita was interviewed by dozens of QCC students who served as KHC interns. Click here to watch a powerful presentation with the KHC’s former intern Gaelle Muzac who shares how Anita’s story of escape and relocation to a new country resonated with her own experience of fleeing a natural disaster in Haiti.

The KHC was privileged to collect 14 testimonies from our local community of Holocaust survivors in February 2020, including Anita. Click here to watch Anita share about her experiences growing up in a Jewish family in pre-war Austria, being deported to England during the Kindertransport, and her immigration to America. Excerpts from her interview are featured in the exhibition, The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide, currently on view at the KHC.