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Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking

A documentary series using firsthand testimony to uncover the story of the Kindertransport - the rescue of 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria in 1938-39.

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Episode 2: What Was Left Behind

Episode 2: What Was Left Behind

Fred Barschak can vividly remember the menu at his father's kosher restaurant. Otto Deutsch recalls his family's humble ... Read more

15 Nov 2019

28mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 4: First Impressions

Episode 4: First Impressions

Thousands of British families respond to the call to help unaccompanied Jewish child refugees, and at long last Kindertr... Read more

1 Dec 2019

22mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 3: The Decision Makers

Episode 3: The Decision Makers

The events of the November Pogrom prompt Westminster to loosen immigration restrictions, allowing unaccompanied child re... Read more

22 Nov 2019

29mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 5: Dovercourt

Episode 5: Dovercourt

In the coldest winter Britain had experienced in more than a century, refugees were housed in unheated huts, while they ... Read more

18 Dec 2019

23mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 1: The Journey

Episode 1: The Journey

The Kindertransport was a loosely coordinated rescue effort in 1938-39 through which nearly 10,000 children under the ag... Read more

7 Nov 2019

29mins

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