After our amazing trip to the Jewish Museum this week can you write 100 words based around the Kindertransport?
100 Word Challenge – ‘The Kindertransport…’
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After our amazing trip to the Jewish Museum this week can you write 100 words based around the Kindertransport?
The Kindertransport was an organised gathering of Jewish children. Trains containing hundreds of Jewish children all set off to arrive at Liverpool St. Station in London. In total 10,000 children were saved from Germany. The most surprising thing is that the Nazis’ knew about the evacuation, they even “helped” the children on the trains. Though they ordered the trains to be at night. They did this because they didn’t want the German Citizens to find out. When the children arrived in Britain they couldn’t speak English and the British people couldn’t speak German. Most children never saw their parents again.
The Kindertransport was an amazing and a terrible thing. On the one hand, thousands of Jewish children escaped the danger of Nazi occupied countries, but on the other they could take only one small trunk with them. Most of them never saw their parents again. Surprisingly or not, the Nazis supported this. In their eyes, it was an efficient way to get rid of the Jewish children and at the same time they weren’t killing or harming them. They ordered that the trains headed for England, depart at night lest the German citizens found out about the families being separated.
I have finished packing but I have sneakily put a necklace with small pictures of my family in it. I do hope they don’t find it as I will put it in my pocket.The Kindertransport that I am going on will come soon. I am holding my parent’s hands so tightly, as if I can’t ever leave. I can now hear the train approaching ever so closer while standing in the cold. The Nazi’s is now checking if we have anything valuable in our suitcases. I stand there, while the Nazi’s checks everybody’s cases. I have freedom at last.
Many people know about the Kindertransport that ran from Nazi Germany to England just before the outbreak of WW2. But not many know that there was no Kinderstransport train from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. However, 669 children were brought to safety from Czechoslovakia to England thanks to a man called Nicholas Winton. The 29-year old stockbroker from London arranged passage documents, bribed Gestapo officers, gave money and found families in England to accept the children arriving on these trains. 50 years later the descendants of the 669 children counted into thousands, many of whom Winton later met in his 90s.
I was only five when i was told that i was going to be sent away from my parents to live in England with my Aunt.I can still remember the loud echo of rumbling from the train tracks and the cramped compartments all of the hundreds of children had to stay in. In that long painful journey I only saw one person who I knew on the train. His father worked with mine in a food production factory that only produced kosher meat. He was extremely nice to me and comforted me because he knew our family’s were gone…