HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR VISITS DANA

Holocaust survivor, World War II veteran and retired public relations director Walter Reed gave a presentation at Dana on April 29 on his experiences as a teenager in 1930s and 1940s Europe.

Reed was born Werner Rindsberg in 1924 in a village near Wuerzburg, Germany. His peaceful childhood ended in 1938 when all the Jewish men and boys in his village were arrested and put in jail. After this incident, Reed’s family sent him to a refugee children’s home in Brussels, Belgium, as part of the “Kindertransport” program, under which Belgium accepted more than 500 German and Austrian Jewish refugee children.

In 1977, Reed started attending reunions of “Kindertransport” children. Since that time, he has been active in planning reunions and speaking on his experiences. His speech at Dana was sponsored by the Save the Children Holocaust Foundation on the request of Professor Diana Brown, associate professor of French and Spanish. Brown translated The Rescue of the Belgium Jews During the Second World War for the Save the Children Holocaust Foundation, as well as other works about Jewish refugees during the war.