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Kindertransport 1938-1940

Safe at last …

Jewish children arriving in London in February 1939.

Photograph:

Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images

How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting)

from the Holocaust:

‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

Thu 7 Dec 2023 11.00 CET

Last modified on Thu 7 Dec 2023 11.02 CET

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how-nicholas-winton-saved-669-children-and-counting-from-the-holocaust-he-became-everybodys-grandfather

Jewish Kindertransport children arriving in London

in February 1939.

Photograph: Gamma-Keystone

via Getty Images

The Kindertransport children 80 years on:

'We thought we were going on an adventure'

Tue 6 Nov 2018 15.00 GMT

Last modified on Fri 9 Nov 2018 12.19 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/06/
the-kindertransport-children-80-years-on-we-thought-we-were-going-on-an-adventure

Three Jewish refugee children from Germany and Austria

waiting to be collected at Liverpool Street station in July 1939,

the same year Susi and her sister Lotte travelled to the UK.

Photograph: Stephenson/Getty Images

'It was life and death for us

and it's the same today':

Kindertransport children speak

Saturday 30 April 2016 09.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/30/
it-was-life-and-death-for-us-and-its-the-same-today-kindertransport-children-speak

1938-1940

Kindertransport

British rescue mission

that saved thousands of lives

during Second World War

In the final months before the war,

the British parliament

took the extraordinary step

of accepting 10,000 children

from across Europe,

who traversed the continent by train

and arrived by boat in British ports.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/
kindertransport-75th-anniversary-second-world-war

In 1938, nine months

before the Second World War,

England opened its borders

to around 10,000 children,

mostly Jewish,

who were fleeing the Nazi regime.

The children were sent,

without their parents,

out of Austria, Germany,

Poland and Czechoslovakia

in a process that became

known as Kindertransport.

Most Jewish families

were prevented from travelling abroad

by a lack of funds

or the stringent visa controls

imposed by countrie

such as Britain and the USA.

Following Kristallnacht,

the night of violence organised

against the Jewish communities

in Greater Germany

(Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland,

Czechoslovakia) on 9 November 1938,

pressure was placed on the British government

to relax immigration controls

for a limited number of children.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/holocaust/kindertransport.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/
judaism/holocaust/kindertransport.shtml

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
kindertransport-1938-40

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/28/
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/21/
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https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/
960439081/he-saved-669-children-from-nazis-
a-new-book-tells-his-story-to-kids

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/
677635910/germany-agrees-
to-pay-kindertranport-survivors-who-escaped-nazis-as-children

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/nov/24/
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https://www.npr.org/2018/11/14/
663059048/a-toy-monkey-
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/10/
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my-father-had-nightmares-that-the-gestapo-were-coming-for-him

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/10/
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/09/
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/08/
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/27/
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/29/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/us/
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10080264/Kindertransport-To-my-dying-day-I-will-be-grateful-to-this-country.html

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http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/nov/03/
weekend7.weekend3

http://www.intothearmsofstrangers.com/ - 2000

Nicholas George Winton 1909-2015

Nicholas Winton,

who became known as “Britain’s Schindler,”

with one of the hundreds of Jewish children

whose lives he saved during the war.

Photograph: Press Association,

via Associated Press

Vera Gissing,

Who Was Rescued by ‘Britain’s Schindler,’

Dies at 93

She was not quite 11

when train convoys organized by a London stockbroker

carried her and hundreds of other Jewish children

from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.

NYT

March 25, 2022 11:12 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/
world/europe/vera-gissing-dead.html

Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued.

Photograph: PA

Children saved from Nazis

by 'British Schindler' plan memorial to parents

Prague to host shrine recognising agonising choice of those

who put their youngsters on ‘kindertransport’ trains

organised by Nicholas Winton

Fri 27 Jan 2017 15.33 GMT

Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 06.36 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/27/
children-saved-from-nazis-british-schindler-memorial-kindertransport-nicholas-winton

Nicholas George Winton 1909-2015

(born Wertheim)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nicholas_Winton

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/01/
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heres-how-one-life-betrays-him

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/30/
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nicholas-winton-one-life-kindertransport-hero

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/07/
how-nicholas-winton-saved-669-children-and-counting-from-the-holocaust-
he-became-everybodys-grandfather

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/
world/europe/vera-gissing-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/10/
daughter-of-british-schindler-urges-may-to-help-more-child-refugees-dubs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/27/
children-saved-from-nazis-
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/may/19/
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/05/
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/03/
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/01/
sir-nicholas-winton

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/19/
if-its-not-possible-life-sir-nicholas-winton-barbara-winton-review

Austria

Outbreak of the second world war

In 1938,

Jewish families under Nazi rule

were scrambling to get their children

out of the Reich.

Newspaper advertisements

were one avenue of escape.

Scores of children were “advertised”

in the pages of the Manchester Guardian,

their virtues and skills extolled in brief,

to fit the space.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/may/06/
how-jewish-parents-used-guardian-ads-to-save-their-childrens-lives-podcast

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Ministry of Food Posters

A new exhibition

at London's Imperial War Museum

(Feb 12 to Jan 3 2011)

pays tribute

to a nation's creativity and resourcefulness

in the face of wartime – and peacetime –

food rationing.

Here is some of the eye-catching

British Government propaganda

used on the 'Kitchen Front'

during that time.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/
Vintage-Ministry-of-Food-posters.html

The following posters

were all used during the Second World War

to encourage austerity and stoicism

on Britain's home front.

They form part of an exhibition

at the Museum of Brands in London

entitled Make Do and Mend

(www.museumofbrands.com ;

020 79080880; 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road,

Notting Hill, London W11 2AR).

The exhibition runs until November 29, 2010.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/
Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html

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