Caroline Moorehead

The misery of the Kindertransport children

Wrenched from their parents and familiar surroundings, the young refugees found safety in Britain, but were tolerated rather than cherished, says Andrea Hammel

Three Kindertransport children waiting to be collected by relatives or sponsors at Liverpool Street station, 5 July 1939. [Getty Images]
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  • The Kindertransport: What Really Happened

    Andrea Hammel

    Polity Press, pp. 169, £15

On the night of 9 November 1938, across Germany and Austria, Jews were attacked and their synagogues and businesses set on fire. In the days that followed Kristallnacht, a scheme was put in place to save children from Nazi persecution. Known as the Kindertransport, it would, over the following ten months, bring 10,000 children to the UK. 

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