Charles Susskind remembered at L.A. Museum of the Holocaust

Late EE Prof. Charles Susskind, who passed away in 2004, is one of 10 children featured in an exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust titled “Childhood Left at the Station: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport,” as well an accompanying L.A. Times article titled “Child separation during World War II: How an exhibition at L.A.’s Museum of the Holocaust resonates today.”  Susskind caught one of the last Kindertransport trains out of Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1939–just a few weeks shy of his 18th birthday (at which time he would have been ineligible for the program) and the onset of the war.   Kindertransport was an international, non-denominational rescue effort that got Jewish children out of Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland between 1938-1939.  The suitcase he carried will be on display, bearing the green, hand-painted number that identified him as a child refugee.  “It’s tiny,” curator Jordana Gessler says. “Probably 18 by 14 inches. That suitcase is all he brought with him.”