May 22nd – the first gathering of US Kitchener descendants

Dear all –

A note of warm wishes to US Kitchener descendants meeting today at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York

https://www.lbi.org/about

Centre for Jewish History, NY – home of the Leo Baeck Institute

Chief archivist and Director of Research Frank Mecklenburg (https://www.lbi.org/about/staff/frank-mecklenburg/) will be giving a talk about the Kitchener rescue

The US KDG (Kitchener Descendant Group) will each say something about their family history, there will be a group photograph, and a blog will follow to tell the rest of us ‘Kitchener Kids’ all about this amazing event

We wish we could be with you (of course!) – but instead, I’m sending a terribly un-British HUGE HUG from Blighty to America!

Clare x

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Kitchener descendants in North America

I have mentioned recently that in any spare moment I am going through the many ships’ passenger lists, line by line, trying to find out how many Kitchener men (and their families in some instances) managed to successfully transmigrate.

If I tell you that we have already passed the logging of 600 successful transmigrations – you’ll start to understand one reason why today’s meeting is so significant – both to those families involved, but also to our wider Kitchener camp project.