Kindertransport

Kindertransport was an event that saved nearly 10,000 Jewish children.  The first of them occurred on December 2, 1938 which saved 196 children, going from Berlin, Germany to Harwich, Great Britain. The way this organization worked was they took children up to the age of 17 from Germany, Austria, and Czech lands. The reason this organization even started was because of the terrible night of Kristallnacht which left many homeless and desperate. After this terror happened and witnessing this night, Norbert Wollheim decided to do something about it. It began by Otto Hirsh, the director of the Reich Confederation of German Jews. He requested Norbert to arrange an organization which emigrated thousands of children to the safety of Great Britain and a new family. Norbert decided to take on this task and by doing so he ended up saving thousands of children.

This organization only lasted from 1938/1939. The last train took off on September, 1, 1939, starting off in Germany and was brought to an end in Great Britain. The organization of Kindertransport was shut down because World War Two started and it made it almost impossible to get the children to Great Britain safely, so they were forced to come to a complete end. In total the great people which brought  the organization called Kindertransport (Which means child transport in German) saved a good 9,000 to 10,000 children from possibly suffering a terrible death in the crematorium and working hard labor. Of those 9,000 to 10,000, 7,500 of them were Jewish and they all came from Germany, Austria, Czech lands, and Poland and brought to Great Britain.