Meet Ainsley Cohen Henriques, prominent leader of Jewish Jamaica and Joan Arnay Halperin daughter of Sousa Mendes visa recipients who will share the little-known story of Jews who found a safe but temporary refuge in Jamaica during WWII. Moderator Prof. Shulamit Reinharz.
Click to read: My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II including the tragic death of Joan’s sister Yvonne Krakowiak, a sweet little girl of four.
Yvonne’s Grave in 1942 when Igans and Hala Krakowiak left her there. And, in 2014 when I visited for the first time.
Images from the 2016 Reunion of Gibraltar Camp Refugees organized by Diana Cooper-Clark and Ainsley Henriques.
November 2016 - The First Kaddish said over Yvonnes’ Grave.
