Sel Hubert and the Kindertransport
Suggested Teaching Instructions
Historical Background: Sel Hubert's Story
Extension activities
Timeline
Create a timeline of Sel’s journey from Cronheim to his eventual immigration to America. Choose five events from his life that you think were the most important. Describe the event in a couple of sentences and explain why you think it was so important.
A postcard
In April 1942, Sel got word from his cousins that his parents had been gone for five months, and no one knew where they were. (They had been deported to a concentration camp as Sel would later learn.) Before that, he would write to them regularly. Write a letter to Sel’s parents from Sel after he had left on the Kindertransport. What might he say about his life in England? What questions would Sel have had for his mother and father? Would he share his fears with them? Please write in first person.