Recent researchers, including myself, have highlighted one particular and obvious flaw in the Kindertransport scheme: that the children were separated from their parents.
Austrian-Jewish child refugees aboard the ship Prague on its arrival at Harwich during the Kindertransport in 1938.
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This theme of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day encourages us to ask difficult questions of ourselves and society.
A 41-year-old man presses his palms against the window of a train as he says goodbye to his five-year-old daughter as she leaves for Lviv at the Kyiv station on March 4, 2022. He was staying behind to fight Russian forces.
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Policies and programs to address war-induced displacement in Ukraine must explicitly take into account the rights of children, including the best interests of the child.
The memorial to the Kindertransport refugees, Liverpool St Station, London.
Amy Williams
The Kindertransport saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis before World War II. But planned reforms to UK asylum policy are putting refugee children at risk.
Kindertransport documents for three children who travelled from Austria to the UK in 1939.
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