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    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• Bernd Koschland: ‘I’m grateful my parents sent me away to carry on living’• Ruth Barnett: ‘When I was 14, my mother appeared out of nowhere’• Bea Green: ‘I was bowled over that these non-Jewish people were nice to us’
    by Stephen Moss Nov 06, 2018 5 minutes
    Jewish Kindertransport children arriving in London in February 1939. Photograph: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

    Friday is the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass. The pogrom of 9 November 1938 in Nazi Germany demonstrated to the Jewish population their lives were in urgent danger and that they must leave if they could. But where to go? Other countries were reluctant to take refugees and adults were finding it increasingly difficult to get out, so Jewish organisations in Germany, Europe and the US attempted to get children out, persuading governments to take child refugees on temporary visas.

    Ten thousand came to the UK, on trains and boats organised by Jewish groups and other philanthropic organisations. This week, featuring the stories of six of the children who came to the UK from Germany as part of this rescue effort, which came to be known as the Kindertransport. The six are now in their 80s and 90s, and have

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