Kinder transports

Summary
There were thousands of children who went from Berlin to sanctuary in England by train. The first train left in 1938. The children were escaping the holocoasts.

The Jewish leaders were setting preasure to England that they have a refuge for the Jewish children. The English leaders said that they would not make any obstacles for that. They could allow as many children that could come in to England.

There were 2 sisters who lived in Tjeckoslovakia and there parents said to them that they were going to England for a holiday and then they're parents would fetch them back. The little sister believed it but not the big sister, the big sister who was four years older realised that it were much more serious.

Another Jewish child who was being sent off to England were Birgitta Mars. Her mother said to her quietly that she was being sent off to England with alot of other boys and girls. And if it goes well, her parents would come with her too.

At the train station, there were parents crying and screaming everywere, some off them even fainted. All the parents wanted to get the last look of them, and the last wave before the train left. And all the cildren wanted to be near the window, so they could see they're parents and wave goodbye to them.

Every child where only allowed by the nazis to take with them one suitcase, one piece of handluggage and ten riechmark. That was all they had with them.

When the train arrived to the german border it was alot of soliders coming into the compartments and made the cildren push everything into the middle and the soliders destroyed it all. It was horrible. And all the way to England the children was afraid they would come again, but lucky enough they didn't.

There were arriving thousands of cildren every month with the kindertransports and most of them didn't know how to speak English at all. There were one teacher that were trying to teach them a few words by English. And the last kindertransport train left Germany at September 1st 1939, 2 days before Brittian went to war against Germany.

The international red kross helped to transport letters between the parents and there kids. But after a few years, it stopped. The children was in concentrationcamps and the most children cried at the night because they missed thier mummy. It was even one that threw herself out of a window and one that had an nervous breakdown and suddenly couldn't walk at all. It was very cold there and they lived in  huts. They only had blankets and warm bottles to keep their self warm.

Some children got foster homes in England and some reunited with thier parents but thier relationship never got the same after the trauma. But the most of the children never saw there parents agian.

The kindertransprts saved about 10 000 jewish children.

My own thoughts and reflections
I can't even image how hard it had to be to live at that time. It must have been really horrible. To not know if your parents are alive or not, and to never see their parents/kids ever agian must be horrible. But it was good that they could send letters at first, bad that it stoped, cause I would just long after letters all the time and get super exited when I got letters from my parents, to hear thier thoughts and that they miss me and stuff like that. They could cumminicate with eachother that way.

The kindertransports was a very, very smart thing according to me. Cause how many more wouldn't die if the children stayed there they lived? Almost all of them would die. And to hear that they saved about 10 000 Jewish children with the kindertransports is really good. And the parents could know that thier children was safe, and if I was a parent at that time, I would be very relieved that my kid were safe. The only bad thing is that they had to be seperated from theier parents/kids, but in my opinon it was worth it.