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The Kindertransport

The Kindertransport. Lindsey Alsip. Background. The first transport brought some 200 children from a Jewish orphanage in Berlin to Harwich, Great Britain on December 2, 1938.

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The Kindertransport

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  1. The Kindertransport Lindsey Alsip

  2. Background • The first transport brought some 200 children from a Jewish orphanage in Berlin to Harwich, Great Britain on December 2, 1938. • An unspecified number of children under the age of 17 were permitted by British authorities to enter Great Britain from Germany and German annexed territories (Austria and the Czech lands). • 9,000-10,000 children were rescued from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Great Britain.

  3. Life Before • Everyone led pretty normal lives until everything with Germany just went crazy • After that people had family members disappear in the middle of the night and come back months later. Children were also getting kicked out of the schools that they attended. • Parents put their children on the trains without the knowledge that, that might be the last time they would see their children.

  4. After the Transport • Reunions were held even though a lot didn’t attend because they didn’t want to remember that part of their life. • People moved all over the world and got married, had children of their own, and obtained high school degrees.

  5. Personal accountsHugh Barrett, volunteer • Almost 700 children coming in per week to Dovercourt • Passports had been altered so that they were either named Jacob or Sarah and passports had a big “J” to show that they were of the despised race • Carried paper bags with minimum clothing

  6. Personal AccountsOlga Drucker, Kinder • She was sent to one of the few schools she was allowed in and had a teacher that she really liked but who disappeared • Her teacher was replaced by Herr Schuler, who made them say “Heil Hitler” while doing the Hitler salute • Her father got taken away in the middle of the night after Kristallnacht and was gone for six weeks; later sent to a concentration camp • The only family member she lost was her grandmother • Her and her family moved to New York, where she got her high school diploma and later married and had three children • Began to explore her Jewish heritage when her children began asking questions and had her Bat Mitzvah at age 63

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