EDITORIAL
The first year of "Memoria" magazine ends with an edition that largely concerns the subject of rescue.
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust presents an exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport. On 1 December 1938 a train carrying 200 Jewish children set off from Berlin to Great Britain. In total, about 10,000 children managed to escape between 1938-39.
A similar number of survivors is connected with the story of Frank Foley, a British spy who, in the 1930s, helped Jews to leave Germany by bending or breaking the rules of granting British and Palestinian visas. A statue of him has just been unveiled in front of his family home.
An exhibition of documents from the Eiss Archive presents the history of informal cooperation between Polish diplomats from Bern and representatives of Jewish organizations that tried to rescue Polish Jews. Several thousand were saved thanks to distributed false South American passports.
Apart from that, in this edition you will read about the guardians of memory who saved the Underground Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto, about the plans of a new Holocaust museum in Sweden, the rescue of the Jewish cemetery in Rohatyn or an exhibition about comic book and the topic of the Holocaust presented in Belgium.
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Paweł Sawicki, Editor-in-chief