Britain Cannot Turn Its Back on Lone Children Now

Expand A statue dedicated to the 'Children of the Kindertransport' outside Liverpool Street Station in London. It expresses “gratitude to the people of Britain for saving the lives of 10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children who fled from Nazi persecution." © 2020 Alex Firth/Human Rights Watch Eighty-one years ago last month, the first of the Kindertransport trains arrived in the United Kingdom, bearing children fleeing conflict and persecution ahead of the outbreak of World War II. In total, the Kindertransport rescue effort ferried 10,000 child refugees to safety in Britain. But now, the…

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