The Kindertransport Missions

The Nazis put the Jews in boxcars for a reason. During the Holocaust the S.S. Killing Squad would kill many Jews. Since they didn’t want to be killing the Jews one at a time, they started to send them in boxcars to camps where they would be killed. “At times, the floor had a layer of quicklime which burned the feet of the human cargo” (Deportation to the…). The Jews were told that they would go to a place with better working conditions.

The Jews that survived all of this were evacuated out of the camps by train or by ship. As winter approached, the Allies reached the border of Germany, and the Germans thought they ruled all of Germany because of the Allies reaching the border. The SS were still evacuating prisoners from the camps from the East and the West by foot. The search for the family always ended in tragedy. For the parents, it was to find their child dead or missing. For the hidden children, it was to find their family members dead and no one to claim them. For months and years, the Jewish parents searched for their children that the Nazis had sent into hiding. Parents would look in newspapers, tracing services, and survivor registries in hopes of finding their children. Although they would often find their children with the original rescuers, sometimes the rescuers would refuse to give the children back.

Many Jewish people were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust. “They were not allowed to go to most public areas such as the park” (Children and the Holocaust) “ and the Jewish children weren’t allowed to go to the same school with the other German children” (International Institute for Holocaust Research). Many families tried to leave and escape before it became dangerous for Jews to live in German occupied countries, but “lack of money and strict immigration control caused them not to be able to” (Children and the Holocaust). “Some of the lucky families were able to find a hiding place” (International Institute for Holocaust Research), or escape before the Holocaust, but some of the other “families that could not get away were sent to the ghettos or killing camps” (Children

On the night of November 9-10, 1938, Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed by the Germans. This night was called the Kristallnacht, which was also known as the Night of Broken Glass. Many Jewish parents decided to send their children to Great Britain, in hopes of keeping their kids away from the danger happening around them. The Kindertransport was the transportation that children from ages 17 and younger used to travel to Great Britain. Not all of the children were able to get on the Kindertransport because space was limited, but about 10,000 of them made it. During that time, many people from different countries and states helped Jewish children escape from Germany. This is an example of the universe of obligation, which is how we determine

The Kindertransport was an organized rescue facility that took play during the holocaust and world war II. The Kindertransport was used to saved children from the Jews.

The children were taken away from their families for usually nine months. Parents who didn't send the kids off encountered many struggles to find work and to feed their families. In order for the children to go back home after this crisis the child needed to have one-thousand five hundred-dollars set aside for their eventual return. The money often came from their parents or sponsors. But, usually, the children didn't see their families anymore because every family member was killed by the Nazis. The kindertransport started because of a Nazis attack against the Jews, homes, and businesses were attacked on the evening of the Night of the Broken Glass. Nazis attacked on November 9th through the 10th, they killed about ninety-one Jews. When the children went aboard train the Nazis made sure their trip was mortifying and frightening. The children were only allowed to bring one suitcase, one piece of hand luggage and $70(editors of scope, N.D.). The Nazis were allowed to search the children's suitcase for any valuables. The child's families were not even allowed to say goodbye to them.

“A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes … children thrown into the flames”(41). If you were not fit or old enough to work you were sent to the crematory right away. A lot of families were split up during the arrival. Mothers and their children were sent to the crematory; the fathers and their sons were sent to work. In the concentration camps, the amount of food you received was very little. In the morning you got a cup of black coffee, at lunch you got a piece of bread and at dinner they gave you a bowl of soup. Hard labor and very little food led to a long and agonizing death for the

What did the Germans do to the Jews? That’s a question everyone asked we will be talking about the holocaust and what happen during this time period, this was one of the worst time periods of are history. If you want to learn a lot about this then read this you won’t want to miss out on this……

There were many organizations that were dedicated to protecting Jewish children, and therefore saved many of them. International Children's Health Care and Welfare Society would train children in order to prepare them for the dangers they might face, and whenever possible they would send them to Switzerland (Berman). International Children's Health Care and Welfare Society saved up to thousands of Jewish children alone. There was also a Movement called the French Israelite Scout Movement that saved thousands of Jews in France (Berman). It was started by Robert Gamzon in 1923 and they would deport Jews to safer places and supply them with forged identity papers and other necessary supplies (Berman). In addition to those two Organization, there was another called Le Chambon sur Lignon. It was led by Christian pastors that felt it was their duty to protect the Jewish Children (Berman). They would hide them in the mountainous areas

In the Ghettos, such as the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, mothers went to great lengths in concealing their children from the Nazis. Mothers risked their lives smuggling their children to non-Jewish neighborhoods in monasteries, and private homes. But it became more difficult to do so after the Nazis declared that the concealment and protection of a Jewish child was punishable by death. During the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, Nazi officers evacuated and burned every single building. Due to fear of the Nazis, and of being burned alive, many Jews jumped to their death from high windows and rooftops. An eyewitness reported that “Those who try to escape from the flames are shot at. That is why mothers blindfold their children and throw them down

The kindertrandsport was a very dangerous mission for the children and the other countries that were involved. It was worth taking the risk to save the children. Hitler had no mercy on anyone, not even on the Jew. He started to become even more powerful with his Nazi party and wanted to kill all the Jews. People were scared of him and didn't want to go up against him and his power.

children filled up small overpopulated orphanages, but living conditions worsened as the war progressed. Even though the children brought over through the babylift escaped bad conditions to live a better life in another country they were still impacted because of the lack of belonging they felt.

On November 9, 1938, Jewish houses, businesses, and Synagogues in Germany and German-annexed countries were demolished during a violent anti-Jewish pogrom organized by Nazi officials, known as Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass. ("Kristallnacht," 2016). The Kindertransport, "a series of rescue efforts which brought thousands of refugee children to Great Britain from Nazi Germany," began as a result of Kristallnacht, which left many Jewish children in German-annexed countries in danger ("Kindertransport, 1938–1940," 2016).

Emma Mogilensky, once a rider on the transport from Munich to London, recalled “...There were a lot of tears, there was a lot of hugging and kissing, but parents were steeling themselves to put their children on the train and send them away.” The older children seemed to understand and accept their separation from their parents since they witnessed the discrimination and humiliation their parents, siblings, and themselves suffered. In contrast, due to the events younger children experienced in school, they felt secure and safe with their parents. Once everyone said their goodbyes, the children traveled alone to their new, usually permanent, homes. Each child could have a small suitcase to ride with one the train, and another larger one with more clothing in baggage. The small cases usually held underwear, socks, toys, books, and photographs of their loved ones who they left behind. The children could not bring anything expensive with them (Fast). Norbert Wollheim recollected a time during his first transport when the train stopped at the Holland border. The Schutzstaffel checked the children’s belongings to make sure they had nothing of value, paying no mind to their documents which Wollheim had assumed they stopped the train to check (Byers 21). In addition, only several escorts could ride each train with the children. The escorts had to return to Germany

     When they arrived at the camps, most of the families who were shipped out together, ended up being separated. Often, the transports were a sampling of what went on in the camps: cruelty by the officers, near starvation of those being transported, as well as fetid and unsanitary conditions. For the people who survived the trip, it was just the beginning of the living nightmare that they would face inside the walls of Auschwitz.