The Kindertransport (1938 to 1939)

The rescue of about 10,000 children from Nazi Germany and the territories it controlled.

After Kristallnacht

In the weeks after the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, Britain agreed to admit unaccompanied refugee children from Nazi Germany and the territories it controlled. Volunteers, many of them Quakers and Jewish community workers, organized trains to the coast.

The last trains

About 10,000 children reached Britain before the war closed the routes in September 1939. Most never saw their parents again. Some later made their way to the United States.

Connected stories

George Jaeger left Vienna on a Kindertransport in February 1939 and later joined the U.S. Foreign Service.