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Vera K. Fast is a historian and archivist. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and, until her retirement, worked as an archivist in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba.

This is a thoroughly engaging and moving history of events which until now have been treated only partially, superficially, or largely biographically. It is a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of a remarkable, early chapter in the history of the Holocaust.

Lionel Steiman,

Professor (retd) and Senior Scholar,

University of Manitoba

Vera K. Fast presents a well-rounded account of the Kindertransport movement. Her extensive research in British archival sources ensures that her views are solidly grounded and her substantial use of first-person accounts by Kindertransport participants gives the reader a good understanding of what it felt like to be uprooted. Particularly noteworthy is the authors discussion of the different viewpoints within the rescue community and the Jewish community that enriched but also complicated the task of rescuing the children from the Continent. Her account of the personal experiences of the Kindertransport children are fascinating for themselves and for their relevance to the twenty-first century world in which there are many child refugees.

Daniel Stone,

Professor Emeritus of History,

University of Winnipeg and

President of the

Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada

As a Jewish child being persecuted by the Nazi government in Germany in the 1930s, I was fortunate that my parents put me on a Kindertransport to Great Britain. Vera K. Fast has written a comprehensive and well researched book leading up to and chronicling this historical rescue mission. I highly recommend it as serious reading of another aspect of the history of the Holocaust.

Margaret Heller Goldberger,

Chair of the Speakers Bureau of the Kindertransport Association

and Member of the Board of Governors

of Bnai Brith International

Published and reprinted in 2011 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
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Copyright 2011 Vera K. Fast

Images 1113 appear courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The views or opinions expressed in this book and the context in which the images are used, do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of, or imply approval or endorsement by, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The right of Vera K. Fast to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

ISBN: 978 1 84885 537 3

eISBN: 978 0 85773 081 7

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For my children and grandchildren

Jane and David

Adrian and Andrew

With deep gratitude that they have been spared the trauma of the children whose stories are related in the following pages

I LLUSTRATIONS

1. Refugee children arriving in England (courtesy University of Southampton, Schonfeld Collection).

2. David Lewinski and Hugh Schramm, Berlin 1939, leaving on a Kindertransport (courtesy Hugh Schramm).

3. David Lewinski, May 1939 (courtesy D. Lewinski).

4. Hugh Schramm and David Lewinski settling in after arrival in England (courtesy H. Schramm).

5. CRREC appeals for food for continental Jewry c.1946 (courtesy Schonfeld family).

6. Kindertransport youngsters at lessons (courtesy Schonfeld family).

7. Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld in British officers uniform c.1945 (courtesy Schonfeld family).

8. Little refugee tots in CRREC care (courtesy Schonfeld family).

9. Arriving in England (courtesy University of Southampton, Schonfeld collection).

10. Postwar children arriving in England (courtesy University of Southampton, Schonfeld collection).

11. Sign in restaurant window, Vienna (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of National Archives).

12. Anti-Jewish sign, Germany (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy Margaret Chelnick).

13. Members of the Bielski Otriad family camp, Naliboki Forest, Belarus (then Belorussia) (US Holocaust Memorial Museum).

A BBREVIATIONS

AJR	Association of Jewish Refugees
ATS	Army Transport Service
BCRC	British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia
CBC	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBF	Central British Fund for German Jewry
CCCC	Committee for the Care of Children from the Camps
CRREC	Chief Rabbis Religious Emergency Council
FHLA	Friends House Library/Archives, London
HCD	House of Commons Debates
HL	Hartley Library/Archives, University of Southampton
HM	His Majestys
IOM	Isle of Man
IWM	Imperial War Museum
JRC	Jewish Refugees Committee
LMA	London Metropolitan Archives
LPL	Lambeth Palace Library, London
NV	Naamloze Venootschap
ORT	Obshestvo Remeslenofo zemledelcheskofo Truda (Society for Trades and Agricultural Labour)
OSE	Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants
RAF	Royal Air Force
RCM	Refugee Childrens Movement
SPSL	Society for the Preservation of Science and Learning
SS	Schutzstaffel (Defence Corps)
UNRRA	United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
WIZO	Womens International Zionist Organization

G LOSSARY

Berochoth	heartfelt thanks
Din Torah	judgement according to the Torah
Erev	eve of
Goy/goyim	non-Jew/non-Jews (pejorative)

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