Kindertransport refugees: Frank Auerbach, Kindertransport, Otto Newman, Hedy Epstein, Paul Cohn, Walter Kohn, David Hurst, Martin Ostwald

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Frank Auerbach, Kindertransport, Otto Newman, Hedy Epstein, Paul Cohn, Walter Kohn, David Hurst, Martin Ostwald, Arno Allan Penzias, Fritz Spiegl, Alfred Bader, Gustav Metzger, Fred Spira, Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, Steve Shirley, Karel Reisz, A. Edward Nussbaum, Lore Segal, Meier Schwarz, John Rayner, Erich Reich, Otto Plaschkes, Joe Schlesinger, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, Renata Laxova, Rolf Decker, Oswald Hanfling, Ignaz Maybaum, Michael Steinberg, Geoffrey Hartman, Karen Gershon, Ari Rath, Leslie Brent, Hella Pick, Richard Grunberger, Guenter Treitel, Heini Halberstam. Excerpt: Kindertransport (also Refugee Children Movement or "RCM'") is the name given to the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, and farms. Most of the rescued children survived the war. A small number were reunited with parents who had either spent the war in hiding or survived the Nazi camps, but the majority, after the war, found their parents had been killed. World Jewish Relief (then called 'The Central British Fund for German Jewry') was established in 1933 as a direct result and to support in whatever way possible the needs of Jews both in Germany and Austria. Records for every child who arrived in the UK through the Kindertransports are maintained by World Jewish Relief. Arrival of Jewish refugee children, port of London, February 1939On 15 November 1938, 5 days after the devastation of "Kristallnacht", the "Night of Broken Glass," in Germany and Austria, a delegation of British Jewish leaders appealed in person to the Prime Minister of the United Kingd...