Events leading up to the Kindertransport:
Well Lola Hahn-Warburg set up the framework of the rescue in 1933 while still in Germany.
The Kindertransport started on 2 December 1938 and ended during May 1940, where Germans gunned down a train carrying the children
Nicolas Winston started kinder transport
Parents desperate to get their kids away from the Nazis sent them on the Kindertransport. The trip was rough on the kids but they were sent to safe areas like London where they lived with friends or relatives until the war was over.
The outbreak of war in September 1939 led to severe disruption of communications, and travel from Germany to France and Britain become extremely difficult. Until the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium in May 1940 a small number of children did manage to reach Britain by way of the Netherlands. Thereafter, it was almost impossible.
Events leading up to the Kindertransport:After Hitler mastered power in Germany in 1933, his Nazi party started the destruction of Jews. Because of this action, thousands of Jews fled the country but the emigration slowed for getting Visas were almost impossible to get.Because of the matter that Jews were being held captive in Hitler's Reich, President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States suggested a conference on July 6, 1938 with thirty one other counties to deal with the "refugee problem".Most countries refused to let in the new immigrants and the members could only agree to meet later.However, after November 9, 1938, more commonly known as the Night of The Broken Glass almost all thirty one counties refused to let in Jewish immigrants. Terrified that Hitler and his Nazi army would strike there next. After that, most Jewish families struggled to find a country that would let them in.
The Kindertransport programme began in November 1938 and ended in September 1939. Britain took in over 10,000 children during this time. Kindertransport was aimed for children 17 and under.
Kindertransport refers to the rescue efforts that took place during World War II to evacuate mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied countries to safety in Great Britain. Between 1938 and 1940, around 10,000 children were transported out of danger.
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nearly 10,000
Into the Arms of Strangers Stories of the Kindertransport - 2000 is rated/received certificates of: Argentina:13 Australia:PG Germany:o.Al. (bw) UK:PG USA:PG
Parents desperate to get their kids away from the Nazis sent them on the Kindertransport. The trip was rough on the kids but they were sent to safe areas like London where they lived with friends or relatives until the war was over.
The Kindertransport started in Harwich, England on December 2, 1938.
Children under the age of 17, the United Kingdom, and with little publicity, the United States.
It be impossible to ascertain, the kindertransport rescued 10,000 children prior to the outbreak of WW2
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 2000.
Children were placed on Kindertransporte by their parents - very reluctantly and of course in the hope that one day the family would be reunited.
The Kindertransport began in December 1938 and continued until the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. It was a rescue mission that carried nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to safety in Great Britain.