Franzi Groszmann

 

 

Age: 100

 

Summary: last surviving parent of the famed Kindertransport who put their London-bound children on trains to escape Nazi persecution when she placed her daughter, author Lore Segal, on a train from Germany, Austria, or Czechoslovakia to seek safety in Britain and later appeared with her daughter in the 1996 Oscar-winning film My Knees Were Jumping.

 

 

Cause of Death: Natural causes

 

Born: December 27, 1904

 

Died: September 20, 2005

 

Location: New York City, New York