Kindertransport facts for kids

Kindertransport is the German word for children's transport. It was used during World War II and a group that rescued refugee children during the Holocaust.

Images for kids

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  Young refugees of the first Kindertransport after their arrival at Harwich, Essex, in the early morning of 2 December 1938

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  Jewish refugee children on their arrival in London on the Warszawa

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  1939 issued Identity Document for travelling to the UK, used by a child on the Kindertransport

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  Hope Square plaque

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  Für Das Kind Vienna, Westbahnhof Station 2008, a tribute to the British people for saving the lives of thousands of children from Nazi terror through the Kindertransports

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  Memorial plaque at Harwich, including a poem by Karen Gershon

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  The SS Bodegraven carried the last group of Kindertransport children away from continental Europe during the Second World War. It left IJmuiden harbour on 14 May 1940, shortly before the invading German armies reached the port.

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  Flor Kent's memorial at Liverpool Street station, relocated to the station's concourse in 2011

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  Memorial to Nicholas Winton at Prague Central Station

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  Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs

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  Walter Kohn

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  Ruth Westheimer

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  Kindertransport – The Arrival, Liverpool Street station, London

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  Züge ins Leben – Züge in den Tod: 1938–1939 - Trains to Life – Trains to Death, Friedrichstraße station, Berlin

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  Die Abreise - The departure in front of Gdańsk Główny station

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  Kindertransport Monument Hoek van Holland Channel Crossing to Life, Hook of Holland

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  Kindertransport – Der letzte Abschied - The final parting, Hamburg Dammtor station

See also

In Spanish: Kindertransport para niños