Kindertransport – Steven Derby

My mother and her sister, my aunt, aged 15 and 17 respectively, were on a Kindertransport out of Vienna, Austria in January 1939.

The Kindertransport was a British scheme to rescue nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi occupied territories. There are a few links at the end of this page if you want to read more about the Kindertransports.

In addition to family, gratitude is expressed to World Jewish Relief and Dr Amy Williams for the provision of these documents and papers. And those that organised the rescue!

*Departure: my mother’s Kindertransport document*

*Requires no visa……my aunt’s Kindertransport document*

*Arrival at Harwich and Aliens Registration two or three weeks later*

*All letters are equal but some are more equal than others….*

*Incredibly important…..extremely grateful*

Listed to live: the following are lists of some of the children to leave Vienna on Kindertransports, including my mother and aunt.

*Thank you, Mrs Schwab (grandmother of Rabbi Julia Neuberger)*

A few links, that open in new pages or tabs, if you want to know more about the Kindertranports:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum here

Kindertransport: Saving refugee children? From the National Archive here

Historical Timeline by the Kindertransport Association here