Before WW2 Nazi Regime began to smash up Jewish businesses and burn down Jewish orphanages and Synagogues In l938 on the 'Night of the Kristallnacht' Nazis ransacked Berlin and arrested Jewish men sending them to a concentration camp ' Bergen Belson' and some men where never seen again. Britain realised that they needed to rescue the Jewish children and children whose parents were against the Nazi Regime. Therefore people like Florence Nankivell and Trevor Chadwick/ Sir Nicholas Winton and others started the ...
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Before WW2 Nazi Regime began to smash up Jewish businesses and burn down Jewish orphanages and Synagogues In l938 on the 'Night of the Kristallnacht' Nazis ransacked Berlin and arrested Jewish men sending them to a concentration camp ' Bergen Belson' and some men where never seen again. Britain realised that they needed to rescue the Jewish children and children whose parents were against the Nazi Regime. Therefore people like Florence Nankivell and Trevor Chadwick/ Sir Nicholas Winton and others started the Kindertransport projects where they would gather Jewish children send them on a train to Holland and then on a boat to UK. It cost ???50 guarantee for each child and they would be sent to Dover Court to be distributed to people who wanted to look after then. Bournemouth Refugee Committee helped send a number of children to Swanage where the children stayed with their sponsors until it was safe to return, not knowing of the future Holocaust where 4 million Jews alone were murdered. This book is about Alfred Batzdorf and other Kinder children who shared their stories, and also poems. This book shares about Swanage teacher Trevor Chadwick from Forres School who was involved with Sir Nicholas Winton in Kindertransport taking children from Czechoslovakia to the UK with unwittingly the help of the Gestapo on trains and ships and even on planes until the Gestapo realised what Trevor was doing. My book talks about the First Kindertransport December l st - 2nd i938 from Berlin to UK thanks to Florence Nankivell whose project it was and also my ancestor Irma Zanker was a child escort on this trip. Alfred Batzdorf and Gary Saul were kinder on that first Kindertransport.. The book talks about the Community in Swanage helping these children. Its a wonderful historical book talking about the plight of Jewish Children rescued by so many kind and good people. It also has many photos of the people and children involved in the story
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
