Kindertransport marks 70th annivesary

The British (and non-British) media has several references this week to the effort to save Jewish-German children from the hands of the Nazis in the "Kindertransport" (children transport).

Harry F. Themal writes in Delaware Online:
"Even as my parents were trying to cut through the bureaucracy, the Nazis perpetrated their murderous and destructive Kristallnacht.

My parents decided to at least save my life and secured me a space on an early Kindertransport, through which England eventually rescued 10,000 children. What courage it took to be separated from their only child, potentially forever. My father wasn't even in Berlin to say goodbye that January day in 1939 because he was at the funeral of his father, who had died of a heart attack.

About three months after I arrived in England, my parents got documents to leave Germany and sail to Cuba as a stopping place on the way to the U.S. I spent three days making my way from London to join them on their boat in Cherbourg, France. I still find it hard to believe an 8-year-old boy could have made that trip alone, but I knew adults must have helped me along the way."

here are some of the stories:
Charles marks Jewish child rescue

Royal visit to Kenton to mark anniversary of war evacuation

On our tours/lectures, you can learn more about the people who were involved in organising the transport; see the memorial to the Kindertransport set in Berlin and hear about some personal stories and testimonials that we have researched.