AUDIO: Powerful - Remembering Kindertransport, a rescue mission for Jewish children before World War II

[Ryan Goble]

Powerful (and devastating) from BBC World News on the 75th Anniversary of Kindertransport Dec. 2, 2013.

"Just before the outbreak of the second world war in 1938, Britain opened its borders to approximately 10,000 Jewish children who were fleeing the Nazi regime in Austria and Germany, and later Poland and Czechoslovakia. Seventy five years ago, the first of those children arrived in what became known as Kindertransport. Newshour's Razia Iqbal spoke to Bernd Koschland, who aged 7, was put on the Kindertransport from Germany by his parents after Kristallnacht, the outbreak of mass violence against Jews and their businesses which led later to the Holocaust. He told her how he remembered that night ..."

From: https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/newshour-remembering