About Albert Silverstein
Albert Silverstein was born in Austria, where he lived for three and a half years until he was evacuated to England on the Kindertransport, an operation dedicated to removing mostly Jewish children from persecution in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig following Kristallnacht. Albert lived with a foster family for over a year with some contact with his parents until they emigrated to the United States in 1940. In this interview, Albert shares what life was like as a toddler moving alone to another country as well as his views on Holocaust art, the psychology of genocide, and more.
"The thing is that when bad things happen to a person or to a group or to a community, the most dominant and easiest response to that is to blame somebody else."
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