'Transport Number 4 - Vienna 1941', by Mark Scott

In April 1939, fifteen-year-old Gertrude Kessler and her younger brother Fritz were separated from their parents and evacuated from Nazi-occupied Vienna aboard a Kindertransport train. Assisted by the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, they found sanctuary in Northern Ireland. After the war, Gertrude remained in Northern Ireland, trained as a nurse, and raised a family. But what happened to Gertrude’s family who did not escape Vienna? Through the study of family records and archives in Vienna and beyond, the speaker tells an extraordinary account of survival and resistance during the Holocaust. Central to the story is ‘Transport Number 4’.

Mark Scott is a researcher and author of three publications, ‘The man who shot the Great War’ (2016), ‘Among the kings – the unknown warrior, an untold story’ (2020), and ‘We fought on D-Day’ (2024). This talk is based on the content from his latest book which will be released in January 2026.

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