Kindertransport

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 Below are 6 heart-warming stories from the Kindertransport (German for "children's transport"), which  was a British rescue operation that saved 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-controlled territory. This train took me from Nuremburg to England, where I stayed in a group home with other children escaping the Holocaust.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/6-stories-of-the-kindertransport



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Anonymous said…
Thank you for sharing these little stories! The items bring the children to life. I feel so lucky that my father, his brother mom and dad all survived. I know my heart grandmother died in a concentration camp.
July 26, 2022 at 6:47 PM
Kerri said…
Sorry not heart grandmother, GREAT grandmother on my father's father's side... Frieda Klugman.
September 18, 2022 at 3:01 PM
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