EVENTS
Wed, Jun 23
|Chabad of Tri-Valley
Holocaust Talk
"One of Ten Thousand: My Mother's Escape to Freedom on the Kindertransport" - An Evening with Linda Mason Waldroup at Chabad Center in Pleasanton
Time & Location
Jun 23, 2021, 7:00 PM
Chabad of Tri-Valley, 3370 Hopyard Rd, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA
About the Event
Presented by Linda Mason Waldroup, whose mother was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K. in 1939. Linda, who lives in Walnut Creek, is a retired Contra Costa librarian and is a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She is also co-chair of the Northern California Kindertransport Association. Her mother, Doris Mason, who was born Doris Franzelore Goldschmidt in Germany in 1930, was one of the 10,000 children who were on the Kindertransport to U.K. Linda’s talk will be about her mother’s experiences before, during and after the Kindertransport.