{"id":2628,"date":"2018-11-29T17:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:20:48","slug":"the-kindertransporte-1938-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/2018\/11\/29\/the-kindertransporte-1938-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories: The Kindertransporte, 1938\u201339"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kindertransporte<\/em>, 1938\u201339<\/h1>\n

In response to reports of the Kristallnacht pogroms (the so-called \u2018Night of the Broken Glass\u2019) \u2013\u00a0the government-led attacks on Jews in November 1933 \u2013\u00a0many countries eased their strict entry requirements for Jewish refugees and announced their preparedness to accept children and teenagers up to the age of seventeen. The Leo Baeck Institute<\/a> in New York is currently presenting an exhibition on the so-called Kindertransporte<\/em> (Children\u2019s Transports) which were carried out around that time. For the DHM Blog, Miriam Bistrovic, head of the Leo Baeck Institute\u2019s Berlin office, writes about the largest action of this kind, the relocation of 10,000 children to England, where they survived the Holocaust. <\/strong><\/p>\n

My child has gone. At six in the morning we brought our boy to Schlesisches Tor to be taken on the Kindertransport to England. How horrifying it was! And the people I met there this morning! A colleague in deep mourning \u2013 her husband died three days after being released from the concentration camp. She is sending her boy away. A patient of mine brings her little four-year-old daughter.<\/em>[1]<\/a> \u2014<\/em>Hertha Nathorff, March 2, 1939<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n