Holocaust survivors re-create kindertransport trip

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: Associated Press

It took 70 years for this reunion, but when the vintage steam train pulled into London with a group of elderly Holocaust survivors, the emotions started to flow.

Under the sprawling canopy of the Liverpool Street Station, the survivors were reunited Friday with the man who as a fearless young stockbroker saved every one of them from the Nazis.

Nicholas Winton, now at 100 frail and leaning on a stick, greeted some of the hundreds of Jewish children that he worked so hard to evacuate from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.

"It's wonderful to see you all after 70 years," he said, shaking hands with former evacuees as they stepped off the train. "Don't leave it quite so long until we meet here again."

The three-day trip from Prague - by rail and ferry - recreated the fateful journey the survivors made as children, part of the kindertransports organized by Winton that carried 669 mostly Jewish children to safety in England.


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[Solly Mack]

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[Suich]

3. What an amazing story!

Thanks for posting this, Behind the Aegis!

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[Tempest]

4. There are two excellent documentaries on the Kindertransports

"My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport" and "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport".

My Knees Were Jumping is the better of the two.

[proteus_lives]

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What an amazing story!

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