Kindertransport

The operation was called Kindertransport — Children's Transport — and it was a passage from hell to freedom. Kristallnacht had just rocked Nazi Germany. The pogroms killed dozens of Jews, burned hundreds of synagogues and imprisoned tens of thousands in concentration camps. Many historians see them as the start of Hitler's Final Solution. Amid the horror, Britain agreed to take in children threatened by the Nazi murder machine. Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of kids arrived…

According to Samuels (n.d, p.6), the first Kindertransport arrived in Harwich, Britain on 2nd December. From then onwards, the Movement for the Care of Children facilitated the safe arrival of two transports each week, until July when arrivals were increased to daily. The last train ferrying children from Germany departed on 1st September, 1939, just two days before the eruption of the Second World War. Saamuels (n.d, p.6) establishes that at least 10, 000 children of whom at least 7, 000 were…

Edith Goldberg: An Unforgettable Journey “Edith Goldberg is one of 10,000 mainly Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution on the Kindertransport scheme,” (The Yorkshire Post: Edith Goldberg). She went through watching her father and uncle being taken away by police. They eventually returning home, but soon after she lost her mother and father when they were deported. Lastly, when she was split up between her sister when they were put with foster families. Edith was only 11 years old…

that Shaped Me: Remember Me by Irene N. Watts Remember Me is about a girl named Marianne who is Jewish and is living at the time of the Holocaust (1939-1945). Marianne has to leave her parents and go with other children on a train called Kindertransport (Kindertransport were trains that brought Jewish children to safety in Britain during the Holocaust). When she gets to Britain, she has to go and live with a stranger named Mrs. Abercrombie Jones. Strangely, Mrs. Abercrombie Jones acts like a…

camp for ‘enemy aliens’. Levy recalls being greeted with chants of ‘Bloody Germans!’ (‘This was quite amazing for me,’ he says, ‘because I had been shouted at as a “bloody Jew” until recently’”. Herbert Levy survived the Holocaust because of Kindertransport. Many other Jews used this method, like Ruth…

During the time of WW2 and the Holocaust, the British government demonstrated determination and persistence when they took action by creating a series of rescue efforts for Jewish children called Kindertransport. The British government knew that their rescue mission would be impossible on however their “persistent efforts of refuge aid committees” allowed 10,000 Jewish children to be safe. The British committee for the Jews of Germany and the Movement for the Care of children from Germany were…

different as well. Women had to watch the lives of their children get destroyed and often watch their children die. However, there were also many different experiences some Jewish women had the chance to save their children through a program called Kindertransport whereas Armenian women did not. Women who were not Jewish had very different experiences in Nazi Germany. Most were able to send their children to school without any fear and enjoyed the same rights as they always had even under a…

daring choice to smuggle Jews out of Nazi reach. One of the people that made this bold choice was Nicholas Winton, who transported children out of- soon to be invaded- Czechoslovakia. He transported children out of Czechoslovakia through the kindertransport to Europe in order to shelter them from the incoming Nazis. “For me he is like a father” (Joseph Ginat). This quote from one of the children that was transported to England shows the gratefulness that they felt toward Winton for helping them…

War & Genocide a Concise History: Review Pages 90-100 & Chapter 4. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime had and were a very well organized machine. Hitler used well thought out methods and implemented them as the push and pull back depending the popularity of society. He had many treaty’s and pacts that he made knowing full well he would eventually break to gain his ultimate plan of race and space. I find it interesting that a man with not real high intelligence, unpopular, and a politician made by…

started to deport Jews in Germany to the East on July 7th, 1942. During this deportation process Jewish people in Germany could not get out. Immigration laws were made controlling them to stay in the country or neighboring European countries. “Kindertransport”, which came into act on November 9, 1938,occurred when groups of children were transported to Britain to be relocated at a sanctuary. During this process Britain usually paid around $250 US dollars or 50 pounds per child. This funded the…