If you met Ruth Moll during one of her twice-weekly volunteer shifts at Cedars-Sinai, you wouldn’t be aware of her harrowing past, but Ruth’s story is one that should be told and remembered.

Ruth was 10 years old when she and her sisters boarded a train out of Nazi Germany in 1939. With one small suitcase each, they said goodbye to their parents and headed to Great Britain.

Ruth was one of about 10,000 children saved by the Kindertransport (German for children’s transport), a rescue effort organized by the British to shepherd predominantly Jewish children to safety and away from the Holocaust from 1938 to 1940.