They lived with my grandmother, so there was my mother's sister, her husband, their son and my grandmother. I had to learn English first, for which I got private lessons, and then was accepted into a boarding school in north London. I don't think I stayed there that long. Once the war broke out there was no further communication. A 2002 documentary, The Power of Good: Sir Nicholas Winton and a 2011 documentary Nicky’s Family tell Winton’s inspiring story. In 1989, 50 years after coming to the Parkfield Road hostel, he tracked the other boys down for a reunion there (it was then the Carlton Hotel), filmed for BBC documentary Bradford Kindertransport. On Thursday, Oct. 30, he will be in Richmond Hill, answering questions about his experiences with the Kindertransport, during a reception and screening of the BBC documentary Kindertransport: Journey to Life in support of Holocaust Education Week. There was nothing much more I could do and that was that. 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Winton was featured in the 2000 Warner Brothers documentary written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, which received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and the film’s accompanying book of the same name. EU sues AstraZeneca over Covid vaccine delays. My sister met me from school and told me and I just went on with my life. 'We do like a rave!' For this reason, it was important to bring the story to public awareness. 10,000 arrived, most of them Jewish, and the BBC was there to record their stories. You know, it was always there. The Jewish and non-Aryan children wore identity tags for inspection by British officials who organised their care. The effort was informally dubbed the Kindertransport. 14.30: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Documentary. The UK PM and the flat refit: What's the row about? My father was abroad at that time because Jews had been made to leave their businesses, and my father had transferred his truck business from Danzig [now Gdansk] across the border into Poland. When I got to England I was sent to Margate, where I lived in a group of 50 youngsters up to the age of about 16 or 17. The Gestapo guy got off at the railway station at the border between Holland and Germany, and we then went on to the Hook of Holland, and from there by ferry to Harwich and from Harwich to Liverpool Street station in London. (2000 PG) It was a matter of luck who you went to and I just wasn't that lucky. I was basically a maid, hoovering and polishing and washing up, and I was a young pair of legs for going shopping. When I try to piece together what there would be in common between all of us who were on the Kindertransport, it would be that, as I wrote in a book, we entered the train in Danzig as children; we disembarked in Liverpool Street Station as adults, because we were now responsible for our own lives. David Cesarani tells the story of how 10,000 unaccompanied children, most of them Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain. I don't know whether they were just the type of people who didn't hug or kiss or anything. My father managed to survive the war and in 1948 he came over, full of hope, to see his only child, but it was quite a traumatic experience because I'd more or less got a new father. One of my aunts was married to a Bavarian doctor who had resettled a year or two before and had a practice in Harley Street. In a way I didn't understand it all. I had a lovely holiday and my aunt said to me: "You know you're going back now, but when you come back it will be for ever," and so it was. I still don't know to this day why, but I was able to take two cases with me: an ordinary big case and an old-fashioned trunk. But of course the promise was unfulfilled as they didn't survive. In late 1938, the British government agreed to grant asylum to children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, as long as they came alone and would not be a burden on public funds. Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars, Returning home to a nuclear disaster zone. When we arrived in England we stayed overnight in London with the uncle of Eve, the friend I had travelled with. Review page 46. The Kindertransport Story Lord Richard Attenborough makes a moving and very personal contribution to The Kindertransport Story, to mark the 70th anniversary of the unique British rescue mission to save nearly 10,000 children, mostly Jewish, from the Nazis. The pharmaceutical giant says the legal action is "without merit" and vows to defend itself. My mother's two sisters were at Liverpool Street station and off I went. Most of the children were Jewish and from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia, and many would never see their families again. That's what I wanted to show in the sculpture that I did for Liverpool Street station - disorientated, tired, slightly elated, somewhat depressed, bewildered children coming into a wartime England not knowing a word of the language, I wanted to show it the way I remember it was. I remember my foster parents coming in. On the boat we had bunks because we crossed in the night. Alfred Wiener was a German Jew from Berlin. I got the confirmation of this from the Red Cross after the war, and also from my father's brother, who had survived and had himself passed through Poland during the war and looked for them. Video'We do like a rave!' Radio 4 is repeating the 1999 broadcast to provide the human story of this tale of survival and heartbreak. This documentary, broadcast on BBC 2 Wales on Holocaust Day 2005, features the reminiscences of some of the 200 Kindertransport children who found a haven at Gwrych Castle in North East Wales. We weren't aware, and I think maybe many parents weren't quite aware, that this was the last parting ever, because of course the [concentration] camps had not been built. BBC 2 Wales, 2005. We were hungry and didn't know the language, and it was a strange world to us. The Kindertransport programme is an essential and unique part of the tragic history of the Holocaust. Of course we couldn't talk together either, which I suppose was a hindrance. The world found out about his work in 1988 during an episode of the BBC television programme That's Life! The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. The Kindertransport programme in media. Father would have probably left most of the packing to mother, but he ensured that I took things that were important from a Jewish point of view. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "All the children hurry to see if there is a letter from home which tell them of their families," Irene said. Can Western brands recover in China after backlash? Kindertransport David Cesarani tells the story of how 10,000 unaccompanied children, most of them Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain. In 1938, Great Britain offered refuge to Jewish children living under the persecution of Nazi rule. The story of the Kindertransport, told through the voices of the unaccompanied children sent to Britain from Nazi Europe. In the morning we took a train to Hinckley in Leicestershire, where we were both due to go. I remember my father telling me that I would like it in England because I would be able to ride the horses, but the reality wasn't like that at all. I don't know why it came to me in the theatre, but I remember sitting there in that chair and coming to that understanding. I recall silly things, like having to wear a straw bonnet and being forced to make my own bed with hospital corners. I don't remember my parents discussing the decision to send me, although they must have. The journey was such a blur. watch newsnight's full film on the kindertransport media caption Newsnight meets four of the thousands of Jewish children sent to the UK from Germany and … On the very next Monday I was introduced to my first factory job, where I promptly ran the needle of the sewing machine through my thumb. I remember being taken by the school to a play in the West End, and it was in the middle of the play that I was sitting there with all the other students, when I suddenly said to myself: "I'm an orphan.". I just sort of had flashes of memory of her. I was one of 18 children, and we travelled for three days, passing through Berlin, at Friedrichstrasse station, with a Gestapo guy who accompanied us, and a member of the Jewish community who took us all the way to London. Made in association with Czech and Slovak television and updated for the BBC, the documentary will be screened 27 January at 10.45pm on BBC One. Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking The Association of Jewish Refugees 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. Kindertransport, This clip is related to Inside the UK's last lesbian bars, Returning home to a nuclear disaster zone. © 2021 BBC. An older child said: "You can't keep those, if the Germans come here it's no good," so sadly I destroyed all my parents' letters. The BBC broadcast a call for foster homes. I remember going to the toilet, and when I was out of the compartment I cried and one of the helpers who was on the journey said: "Don't do that, you'll set the young ones off.". I don't really remember saying goodbye to my father and sister. Until I left my foster parents, I was sort of continuously homesick, and it's a horrible feeling. It wasn't until years later I remember at one point a card coming from my parents, and rushing down the stairs and then being quite emotional. My father died in January 1942 and my mother in the March. BBC Newsnight hears the stories of four of them. This documentary uses archive footage and interviews to tell the story of those who left their families behind to begin a new life overseas. There were Nazis standing around in uniform and big smears all over the walls saying "Die, Jews" and so forth. Ten thousand children were evacuated by parents desperate to get them to safety. We experienced too much too soon. My group was the last of three that left Danzig. "We are all waiting to go to homes in England where we can stay till our parents will leave Germany," a girl called Kathe told the BBC team. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars. I had clothes and a hairbrush, which mother packed to make sure that her darling little son kept his hair tidy, and a shoe bag and other bits. He wore a bowler hat, which he took off. The rumours were rife there, and people knew what was happening in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald, that something terrible was happening there, which the British authorities did not want known. Responsible for over thirty single documentaries including The Baby Born in a Concentration Camp, When God Spoke English: the Making of the King James Bible, Did Darwin Kill God? Kindertransport, (German: “Children Transport”) the nine-month rescue effort authorized by the British government and conducted by individuals in various countries and by assorted religious and secular groups that saved some 10,000 children, under age 17 and most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany, A team went to Dovercourt Camp in Kent and recorded the innocent, hopeful voices of the newly arrived children for "Children in Flight" a remarkable radio documentary. I suppose they were fond of me. I remember it was night when we went to the railway station because, I think, they didn't want the population to know what they were doing. I was the youngest. It probably wasn't more than a year or so, and then I moved to Cambridge. How did one Englishman save 669 children from the Holocaust? It's almost like a curtain came down and blacked it all out. I cannot remember much of how I felt at my time of leaving for England. Support your Jewish News I learned English and learned to play games which I'd never heard of, such as hopscotch. This episode is related to All of the children were allowed only one small piece of luggage. Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism, This episode is related to I was a young child and I cannot remember my reaction to being told I was going abroad. I felt sad, but I didn't really know her. He was quite an elderly gentleman and she was a fairly stern-looking lady. They had a son about the same age as I was, a beautiful house and a big dog, and I started school. I'd already sort of lived with the loss in my own mind because I'd not heard from them since the war began. Since she wasn't Jewish, she converted. I don't think I lasted very long in that factory. Where there was no place for the children in homes, they were taken to some kind of hostel. They had their own reasons to underplay this, but the German refugees here knew all about it. The story of the Kindertransport continues to evolve as survivor stories and historical revelations about the world’s reaction to the Holocaust are woven together. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. I took lodgings with one of my workmates. Discover more seriously interesting radio documentaries. Unfortunately I destroyed all those letters when war broke out. Things did thaw during his stay but it was quite hard because for him it was a continuation, but for me it was something new. Sir David Attenborough (Photo: BBC) Sir David Attenborough has spoken about the sisters from Berlin his family took in after they had fled Nazi Germany through the Kindertransport. I didn't know the language except one sentence. "I thought it was a temporary thing, it was a temporary parting," Eva Urbach told Dr. Cesarani. Read about our approach to external linking. Website. The refugee committee hadn't wanted me to go to them until they had a stable set-up, but when they became established in West Hartlepool and my uncle got a steady job as a teacher I was allowed to have a holiday with them there to see how I liked it. I heard about my parents' death in 1945. My mother had two sisters and her mother living in London at that time, so it was arranged that I would be taken in by my mother's family. Susie Lind said: “My mother saw me off on the Kindertransport from Prague and she took a … My father was a doctor and he had his practice near the showbiz part of Vienna. It is 75 years since Britain sanctioned a mission to bring Jewish children to the UK after the devastation of Kristallnacht, when the Nazis organised anti-Semitic attacks in Germany and Austria, including smashing windows of Jewish-owned businesses. It was from Kristallnacht on that the Kindertransport started. And so it went until I was 18, when I decided to leave my foster parents. I suddenly realised that the chances of my parents still being alive after what I had heard were minimal. In Berlin we had arrived at around four or five in the morning, and an aunt of mine was standing in the station with bananas for all the children because she had heard that we were passing through. Emmy Award-winning, 11 episodes, five years in the making, the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC, and the first to be filmed in high definition. Few had understood what their departure from home really meant. Kindertransport: One survivor talks about how Kindertransport saved him Up to 10,000 youngsters from Germany, Austria Poland and Czechoslovakia arrived in the UK. ", or words to that effect, which I've fortunately never had to use. I came to England in April 1939 and I was five and a bit years old. My mother worked as a dancer in one of the theatres and she went to him as a patient and they fell in love. There are a number of things that often play in the back of my mind as I think about the transports, the feeling that parents must have had to make that decision to send their child away; added to that, the promise of "we'll see you again shortly, hopefully", which of course in many cases never occurred. I think that probably is the epitaph of our youth. When my parents said goodbye to me on the platform, my father said: "Whatever happens, study, go to university," which I tried to do and did. Judi Dench, Actress: Skyfall. I was lazy when it came to writing to my parents, and also I had to choose whether I would use my pocket money to buy sweets or stamps, but I did write and I got letters back. In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust, this powerful documentary, which accompanies the BBC Two drama, The Windermere Children, reveals a little-known story of 300 young orphaned Jewish refugees, who began new lives in … In this special year, when we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Kindertransport, his absence will be keenly felt but he can rest knowing that his great works remain appreciated every day.” Frank features in the documentary, ‘Kindertransport: A Journey to Life’, made in 2012 and screened on BBC Newsnight. My mother was working in a factory during the war and she was killed when it was bombed. Inside the UK's last lesbian bars. Read about our approach to external linking. 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