Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking
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: Remembering & Rethinking
Episode 3: The Decision Makers
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The Association of Jewish Refugees
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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The events of the November Pogrom prompt Westminster to loosen immigration restrictions, allowing unaccompanied child refugees to come to Britain. What did these children understand at the time about how they ended up on a Kindertransport? Eight refugees recall their experiences and historian Louise London explains British the shift in British policy.