Kindertransport
Prewar Jewish rescue
Kindertransport was the organized rescue effort that brought nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-controlled territories to Britain between 1938 and 1940.
The German term means "children's transport." The children, mostly unaccompanied, were placed with foster families or hostels; many never saw their parents again.
Her grandmother came to England on the Kindertransport.
Year preceding global conflict
- Kristallnacht1938 anti-Jewish pogrom
- Nazi GermanyHitler's fascist dictatorship
- BritainIsland off northwestern Europe
- prewarBefore a conflict
World War II · Third Reich · persecution · Czechoslovakia · Austria · Poland · appeasement · Chamberlain
Removal from danger
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- escapeFlight from captivity
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
haven · survival · deliverance · liberation · safe passage · asylum · protection · flight
Leave-taking expression
- goodbyeDeparting salutation
- parentsMother and father
- familyRelated people together
- lossBeing without something
longing · grief · abandonment · letters · photographs · suitcase · platform · train station
Thing preserving remembrance
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- survivorsThose still alive after
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
documentary · museum · monument · oral history · memoir · witness · anniversary · plaque
State of fitting in
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
- GermanCentral European language
Austrian · Czech · Jewish · language · accent · integration · otherness · dual identity
Children traveling without adults
- orphansChildren whose parents died
- foster childrenMinors in substitute care
- wardsProtected dependents or districts
- youthState of being immature
boys and girls · infants · teenagers · schoolchildren · youngsters · minors · dependents · evacuees
1939
Year preceding global conflict
- Kristallnacht1938 anti-Jewish pogrom
- Nazi GermanyHitler's fascist dictatorship
- BritainIsland off northwestern Europe
prewar · World War II · Third Reich · persecution · Czechoslovakia · Austria · Poland · appeasement · Chamberlain · interwar
evacuation
Removal from danger
sanctuary · haven · survival · deliverance · liberation · safe passage · asylum · protection · flight · emigration
farewell
Leave-taking expression
loss · longing · grief · abandonment · letters · photographs · suitcase · platform · train station · waving
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- survivorsThose still alive after
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
remembrance · documentary · museum · monument · oral history · memoir · witness · anniversary · plaque · gratitude
belonging
State of fitting in
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
German · Austrian · Czech · Jewish · language · accent · integration · otherness · dual identity · naturalization
unaccompanied minors
Children traveling without adults
- orphansChildren whose parents died
- foster childrenMinors in substitute care
- wardsProtected dependents or districts
youth · boys and girls · infants · teenagers · schoolchildren · youngsters · minors · dependents · evacuees · little ones
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy
- British JewryChief Rabbi, Whitechapel, readmission, resettlement, Oliver Cromwell
- German JewsAshkenazi, Holocaust, Kristallnacht, Nuremberg Laws, concentration camps
- Jewish cultureTorah, synagogue, synagogues, rabbi, rabbis
KindertransportHolocaust
Nazi genocide of Jews
genocide · extermination · pogroms · pogrom · ethnic cleansing
Kindertransportclosed borders
Restricted national entry points
childbirth, transportation, transports, transporter, transportable, childproof, childminders