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Kinder Transportees

Stephen Fairclough and the Eye team hear how the lives of two women - one aged 85, the other 90 - were saved when their parents put them on trains and into the care of strangers.

30 minutes

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Sun 17 Feb 2019 18:30

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The families of both women were later murdered by the Nazis.

Ellen Davies describes how she was beaten by boys from her local Hitler Youth who later forced her and other children to watch as they pushed an old man from the top of a building.

The eldest of seven children, she was the only one her parents could put on a refugee transport as war loomed. Her father survived the war but her mother and siblings were shot as they were taken off a train.Β 

Renate Collins remembers her departure from Prague on the last train arranged by Sir Nicholas Winton even though she was only five and had a fever from chickenpox.

She learned last year that her mother and grandmother were summarily executed when the train taking them to the Treblinka death camp broke down.

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  • Wed 13 Feb 2019 18:30
  • Sun 17 Feb 2019 18:30

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