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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.

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Kindertransport - Trailer

Kindertransport - Trailer

Subscribe now to this documentary series using firsthand testimony to uncover the story of the Kindertransport - the res... Read more

7 Oct 2019

4mins

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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Episode 6: Against the Backdrop of War

Episode 6: Against the Backdrop of War

With the onset of war in September 1939, the transport of child refugees to Britain stops, stranding untold numbers of c... Read more

25 Jan 2020

27mins

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Episode 7: Identity

Episode 7: Identity

Forging a sense of identity is complicated enough for most children. Now try to imagine what it must have been like for ... Read more

24 Feb 2020

25mins

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Episode 8: Enemy Aliens

Episode 8: Enemy Aliens

Anti-German panic sets in and following Winston Churchill's edict to "collar the lot", all adult Germans and Austrians i... Read more

21 Apr 2020

30mins

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Episode 9: Twenty-five Words

Episode 9: Twenty-five Words

Letters between the Kindertransport refugees and their parents first served as a lifeline to home, but when war breaks o... Read more

16 Jul 2020

24mins

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