DHHRM | The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport- An Evening with Mona Golabek

Monday, May 5, 2025
5 pm Reception | 7 pm Performance

Charles W. Eisemann Center
2351 Performance Dr | Richardson 75082

Join us for this internationally acclaimed theatrical production, filled with hope and the life-affirming power of music.

Based on her book The Children of Willesden Lane and featuring some of the world’s greatest classical music, concert pianist MONA GOLABEK shares her mother’s riveting story of survival during World War II.

Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg, this powerful stage production tells the true story of Lisa Jura, a 14-year-old musical prodigy whose dreams of becoming a concert pianist were cut short when Hitler’s armies were advancing in Vienna. Her parents were forced to make the difficult decision to choose one of their three daughters to secure safe passage on the children’s transport to London. They chose her, believing that her musical talent would give her the strength to survive. At a hostel on Willesden Lane, her music became a beacon of hope for not only her, but for the other children who found themselves in a devastating new reality – a life without their parents.

About Mona Golabek
A Grammy nominee, Mona Golabek is the founder and president of the Hold On To Your Music Foundation. An author, recording artist, and internationally renowned concert pianist, she learned to play the piano from her mother. Mona has brought The Children of Willesden Lane production and her book to more than 10 million students and teachers across the globe.

About the Kindertransport
On November 9–10, 1938, the Nazi regime violently attacked Jews across Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, destroying businesses, synagogues, and homes in what became known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). In the aftermath, the Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) began, a rare instance of a large-scale rescue effort that brought nearly 10,000 Jewish children to safety in Britain from Nazi-controlled territories between 1938 and 1940. For every child saved, 150 would perish in the Holocaust in the next five years. Like Mona’s mother, Honorary Chairs Magie Romberg Furst and Bert Romberg owe their survival to the kinder rescue efforts.

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