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BEING PART OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT:
The group transport of children to England from Germany, Austria, Poland
and Czechoslovakia came to be known as the Kindertransport. Between December
1938 and September 1939, approximately 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children
arrived in England. The first Kindertransport arrived at Harwich on December
2, 1938, bringing 196 children from a Berlin Jewish orphanage torched by
Nazis during the night of November 9th. Officially the Kindertransports
were ended when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. A Kindertransport
of approximately 60 children which was all set to depart from a Prague
train station, was halted due to the outbreak of the war, stranding the
children. The latest Kindertransport known to reach England bearing 80
children, was the freighter Bodegraven which left Holland on May 14, 1940,
raked by machinegun fire from German war planes.
At this stage, for reason of security, the identity of the survivor
is anonymous, only known by the code we have assigned. If you wish to contact
the survivor in person, you first must email us with some information about
yourself, who you are, the purpose of the interview, how it will be used,
etc. You can email us at holocaustchild@comcast.net
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