In the fall of 1938 , following Kristallnacht , Julius Steinfeld , a communal leader in Austria , called Rabbi Schonfeld , pleading with him to assemble a children ’s transport to England for Vienna ’s Orthodox Jewish youth . Rabbi Schonfeld met with Yaakov Rosenheim and Harry Goodman , president and secretary of World Agudath Israel respectively , but even before they could decide on a strategy , he boarded a train to Vienna . Rabbi Schonfeld helped Steinfeld organize a Kindertransport of close to 300 Orthodox Jewish youngsters , providing the British government with his personal guarantee in order to secure their entry
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Solomon Schonfeld