Kindertransport

The Kindertransport was an organized rescue effort that took place during the nine months before the outbreak of the Second World War.

The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig.

The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. For many of them, the journey saved their lives. Often, they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust.

Alisa's Kindertransport story

Alisa Tennenbaum, born Liselotte Scherzer in Vienna in 1929, was sent by her family on the last Kindertransport to England on 22 August 1939, when she was 10 years old.

She first arrived in Tynemouth, near Newcastle, and in June 1940 was moved to Windermere, where she lived in a hostel with other girls throughout the war.

Further Reading

Additional background material about the Kindertransport and its public remembrance.