EPISODE · Dec 3, 2010 · 9 MIN

Kindertransports

from Witness History: Archive 2010 · host BBC World Service

The first trains full of Jewish children left Berlin in early December - heading for sanctuary in Britain. The Kindertransports only stopped with the outbreak of war in September 1939. They helped thousands of children from all over Nazi occupied Europe to escape the Holocaust. Children arriving at Liverpool Street station. Getty images.

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