Kindness saved us from the Nazis. Now we must help child refugees

Dame ‘Steve’ Shirley is urging other Kindertransport survivors to donate their restitution money to aid today’s children fleeing war and conflictEighty years ago this weekend a frightened five-year-old arrived at Liverpool Street station in London, clutching the hand of her older sister. Vera and Renate Buchthal had been put on a Kindertransport train in Vienna by their mother as the Nazi grip on Germany and Austria tightened and Jews feared for their lives.

A few weeks ago, Dame Stephanie Shirley – as she is now – received a cheque from the German government for €2,500 in restitution for that life-shaping event. The payment is available to all survivors of the Kindertransport programme, which saved around 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazis after the Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938.

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