Rose and Henry Baum and the painting from Terezin by her father.
Escape
P lus 50
Survivors from the Kindertransport will
reunite in England.
RICHARD PEARL
Staff Writer
Marion Alflen found a "blitzkrieg" of sorts in Detroit.
A
photograph of a
painting of a con-
centration camp
bakery hangs in
the living room
of Henry and Rose Baum's
Southfield home.
It is a constant reminder of
the Holocaust, when Henry
and Rose — who hadn't yet
met — escaped Hitler and his
Nazi followers and fled from
Germany to England via
Kindertransport.
The large, sepia photo
shows an original painting
that the Baums coincidental-
ly discovered during a 1983
visit to Yad Vashem in Israel.
Rose Baum's father, a cantor,
painted it. Her parents were
killed at Terezin. Henry's
parents nearly escaped, but
were held up by red tape.
They died at Auschwitz.
"I had a funny feeling as we
walked in that, if there was
anything there from that
camp, his (her father's) would
be among them," Rose Baum
said.
Rose and Henry met in
1947, eight years after they
were whisked to England by
Kindertransport, Great Bri-
_ tain's response to
Kristallnacht.
In the days following the
Nazi pogrom, British and
German Jewish groups work-
ed together to bring unaccom-
panied German, Austrian,
Polish and Czechoslovakian
youngsters ages 2 to 17 to
England. The Kinder-
transport ran for 10 months,
beginning December 1938.
British families sponsored the
children, who numbered close
to 10,000 by the program's
end.
Now, 50 years later, Kinder-
transport children from
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