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Kindertransport is the name of the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of World War II.
The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, and the occupied territories of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig.
The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, and farms.

On 15 November 1938, after "Kristallnacht", a delegation of British Jewish leaders appealed in person to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain.
They requested that the British government permit the temporary admission of Jewish children and teenagers who would later re-emigrate.
The Jewish community promised to pay guarantees for the refugee children.
The British Cabinet debated the issue the next day and subsequently decided that the nation would accept unaccompanied children ranging from infants up to teenagers under the age of 17.

A small percentage of the Kindertransport children were reunited with parents, who had either spent the war in hiding or survived the Nazi camps.
The majority of Kindertransport children lost home and family forever.