The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis
How thousands of unaccompanied children were sent to safety by their desperate parents
Witness History · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
In the months leading up to outbreak of World War Two in September 1939, some 10,000 unaccompanied children were sent by their parents out of Germany and Austria, to safety in the UK. Many of them never saw their families again. Dame Stephanie Shirley was just five years old when she and her older sister were put on a train by their mother in Vienna. She has been telling Mike Lanchin about arriving in a foreign land as a little girl.
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