Gallery: Full House for Holocaust Survivor Talk

There was a full house tonight at the White Barn Center at the Westport Country Playhouse for “From Hate to Hope: A Conversation With Holocaust Kindertransport Survivor Ivan Backer.” The Playhouse, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and TEAM Westport, the town’s diversity committee, sponsored the event. Backer, 87, read from his book, “My Train to Freedom: A Jewish Boy’s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism.” The event was presented in conjunction with the Playhouse’s April 5-9 production of the musical memoir, “The Pianist of Willesden Lane.” In the play, a young Jewish girl escapes the Holocaust via Kindertransport, the “children’s trains” organized by Sir Nicholas Winton who almost single-handedly rescued 669 children. Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com