Event Summary

Before the Kindertransport, World War 2 started, also Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass) made restrictions for Jews in Germany for . The Kindertransport was between 1938-1940, and helped over 10,000 children find foster homes outside of Nazi Germany, Australia, Poland and Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain. Most of these children were Jews but a couple of them were Gypsies, and non-Aryans. These children could not bring their parents. Their suitcases had to be closed and they were not allowed to any bring valuables. The children left in train or in boat or in a plane if it was really far away. The older children took care of the younger ones. Each child was given an orphanage home or a foster home.  The first Kindertransport was arrived in Harwich on December 2, 1938. This transport took 200 children. In some of the organizations that were associated with the Kindertransport, favored some of the children who had to leave, because their parents were in a concentration camp. The last transport left on September 1, 1939 from Germany. All the children who were in the Kindertransport,survived. During those two years the Jewish children were being cared by Christians, some of the Jews lost their faith in their religion.  As the years went on after the World War 2, the boys became solders for the British army who fought against Germany. Also many of the children who were in the Kindertransport became citizens in Britain,moved to Israel the United States, Canada, and Australia. Most of these children never saw their parents ever again.