Kindertransport’s complex legacy: saving children from the Nazis while leaving their families behind
Kindertransport’s complex legacy: saving children from the Nazis while leaving their families behind: When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would …