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GCSE History · key term
The organised evacuation of around 10,000 mainly Jewish children to Britain in 1938–39, without their parents.
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Revise: Early 20th Century Migration and Wartime RefugeesThe Kindertransport brought around 10,000 mainly Jewish children to Britain in 1938–39, without their parents. Children were placed in foster care. Rescue offered safety, but separation from their families was a painful part of their experience.
Paper 1
A series of rescue efforts in 1938–40 that brought about 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Europe to safety in Britain without their parents.
Support explanations with precise evidence, such as the reception of Belgian refugees in 1914, the Kindertransport’s admission conditions or the internment of about 1,000 older Kindertransport children.
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The resulting Kindertransport, meaning ‘children’s transport’, brought about 10,000 children to Britain between December 1938 and May 1940. Most were Jewish, and they came from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The first transport reached Harwich on 2 December 1938 with about 200 children.