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Logo of the exhibition "Home and Exile. Jewish Emigration from Germany since 1933" in the Jewish Museum Berlin

children's transport


Arrival of a children's transport at a train station in London, 1939

"We children crowded around the [train] window to receive last minute instructions. Despite the quietly shed tears, the desperate hopelessness of the people left behind was not really grasped by us.

The youngest of the children was three years old, and the oldest fourteen. Many children were bewildered as they did not understand why they were leaving theirs homes and their parents, while to others it appeared as though this was an outing to a far and romantic land."

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