The Kindertransport at 80
The stories of six Jewish people who came to the UK from Germany as children, in the wake of Kristallnacht in 1938
The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'For the rest of his life, my father had nightmares that the Gestapo were coming for him'
As a successful doctor in Berlin, Elsa Shamash’s father was reluctant to leave Germany. But after Kristallnacht, that all changed
The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'I was bowled over that these non-Jewish people were nice to us'
Bea Green found a place on a Kindertransport out of Munich in June 1939. She will never forget the warm welcome she received after crossing into the Netherlands
The Kindertransport children 80 years on: ‘When I was 14, my mother appeared out of nowhere’
Ruth Barnett and her brother were helped by the Quakers to get to the UK from Berlin. But, four years after the war, she was forced to return to Germany by her mother
The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'I'm grateful my parents sent me away to carry on living'
Bernd Koschland recalls the synagogues burning on Kristallnacht – and how he never saw his parents again after he escaped Nazi Germany the following year
The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'We thought we were going on an adventure'
In 1938, the first of the Jewish Kindertransport children evacuated from Nazi Germany arrived in Britain. This week, we’re publishing the stories of six of those refugees, beginning here with Bob and Ann Kirk
