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From 1938 over 10,000 Jewish and Catholic children were helped to escape from Nazi Europe.

The children were bundled onto trains and set off across Germany and Holland to the ferries which took them to England.

This book traces the story of the Kindertransporte and those who helped organize the exodus.

The book is based on previously unpublished records and extensive interviews and describes the often painful adjustments of the young refugees to a strange country and the often lonely life of billeting, fostering, evacuation and even deportation.