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Kindertransport logo #21000 The Kindertransport (German for children transport) is a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster h...
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Kindertransport

Kindertransport logo #21000[play] Kindertransport is a play by Diane Samuels, which examines the life, during World War II and afterwards, of a Kindertransport child. Though fictitious, it is based upon many real kinder stories. The play is published by Nick Hern Books. == Play Content == In November 1938, after nights of violence against Jews across Germany and Aust...
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kindertransport logo #21477The evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany. Refers specifically to 10,000 unaccompanied children admitted to Britain prior to World War 2. They were separated from, or sent by parents who had to stay behind.
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Kindertransport

Kindertransport logo #24024A program which allowed, after much negotiations, and with heavy fees attached, for Jewish children to be sent from Germany, Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. Many of these children were housed with foster families, not all of the experiences being positive ones. Others were housed in castles in the countryside. Many of these ch...
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Kindertransport

Kindertransport logo #24023The movement to evacuate children to Britain from Nazi Germany. The first transport was in 1938. By the outbreak of war 9,354 children had arrived, 7,482 of them Jewish.
Found on https://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/voices/ref/gloss/glossary.html
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