Kindertransport was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
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22 Facts About Kindertransport
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Kindertransport had collected 66 of the children from the orphanage on the in Amsterdam, part of which had been serving as a home for refugees.
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Kindertransport could have joined the children, but chose to remain behind.
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Kindertransport went to Vienna with the purpose of negotiating with Adolf Eichmann directly, but was initially turned away.
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Kindertransport persevered however, until finally, as she wrote in her biography, Eichmann suddenly "gave" her 600 children with the clear intent of overloading her and making a transport on such short notice impossible.
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Kindertransport then went back to Britain with the objective of fulfilling the legal requirements to bring the children to Britain and to find homes for them.
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Kindertransport warned the British government, through Lord Samuel, of the impending Kristallnacht in November 1938.
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Kindertransport saved large numbers of Jews with South American protection papers.
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Kindertransport brought over to England several thousand young people, rabbis, teachers, ritual slaughterers, and other religious functionaries.
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Kindertransport Association is a national American not-for-profit organisation whose goal is to unite these child Holocaust refugees and their descendants.
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Kindertransport programme is an essential and unique part of the tragic history of the Holocaust.
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Kindertransport was involved in working to arrange the award of 2,500 euros from the German Government to each of the kinder.
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, narrated by Judi Dench and winner of the 2001 Academy Award for best feature documentary.
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Austerlitz, by the German-British novelist W G Sebald, is an odyssey of a Kindertransport boy brought up in a Welsh manse who later traces his origins to Prague and then goes back there.
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Kindertransport finds someone who knew his mother, and he retraces his journey by train.
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Companion book to the Oscar-winning documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport with expanded stories from the film and additional interviews not included in the film.
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Sisterland, a young adult novel by Linda Newbery, concerns a Kindertransport child, Sarah Reubens, who is a grandmother; sixteen-year-old Hilly uncovers the secret her grandmother has kept hidden for years.
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Children of Willesden Lane, a historical novel for young adults by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, about the Kindertransport, told through the perspective of Lisa Jura, mother of Mona Golabek.
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The occasion marked the 70th anniversary of the intended last Kindertransport, which was due to set off on 3 September 1939 but did not because of the outbreak of the war.
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Kindertransport argues that "the Kindertransport" is used as evidence of Britain's "proud tradition" of taking in refugees; but that such allusions are problematic as the Kinderstransport model is taken out of context and thus subject to nostalgia.
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