Talk in German language with Lilly Maier

"I had a great life," says Arthur Kern, referring to his childhood in Vienna - until that moment when he was abruptly separated from his family in 1939, at the age of just ten. In the hope of saving him from the Holocaust, his Jewish parents sent him on a child transport to a foreign country - a traumatic experience for the ten-year-old. Although he managed to escape to America via France, he never saw his family again.
In the form of a historical reportage, the book follows Arthur Kern's life and flight stations. In addition, the author tells a very personal account of how the life of the Kern family has become intertwined with the old homeland again: Through their close friendship with Lilly Maier, a non-Jewish Austrian, the Kerns found a new approach to their own family history.

Lilly Maier studied history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and journalism at New York University as a Fulbright scholar. Since 2012 she has been working as a lecturer at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. For the past ten years she has worked as a freelance journalist for a number of media in Germany, Austria and America, including FOCUS Online, Kurier, The Forward, The Columbus Dispatch, Die StadtSpionin and PolitiFact.com. Currently Lilly Maier is working on her PhD at the Chair of Jewish History and Culture in Munich on women as saviours of Jews during the Shoah.

An event accompanying the exhibition "End of Testemony?".

Source: Jewish Museum Hohenems