Frieda Stolzberg Korobkin

Frieda Korobkin, née Stolzberg, was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. She was six years old when her parents put her and three older siblings on a Kindertransport to the UK to get them away from the Nazis. The image of her father Rabbi Nissan Stolzberg standing forlorn on the platform, bleeding from an anti-Semitic attack on the way to the station, is the last memory she had of him. In England, Frieda and 1,000 other Orthodox children landed in the care of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, who ran a secondary school in London and was instrumental in bringing thousands of European Jews to safety. Before Frieda began attending Rabbi Schonfeld's school, she spent two years separated from her siblings, living with British families, both Jewish and non-Jewish. In Shefford, Bedfordshire, where the school was relocated after the London Blitz began in World War II, Frieda was reunited with her brother and one sister. After graduation, she went to trade school to learn to be a secretary and moved to the newly-established state of Israel. Eventually, she became an English teacher. She returned to England and then moved to New York City and to Los Angeles. Although she searched for years, it wasn't until 1973 that she learned the fate of her parents: They were executed by the Nazis and buried in a mass grave discovered in Brko, Yugoslavia. In 1999, Mrs. Korobkin took two of her three children to London for a Kindertransport 60-year reunion. A few years later, she saw the film "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport," which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2000. It inspired her to write her memoir, Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders: Beyond the Kindertransport, published in 2009.