"Kindertransport" by Diane Samuels [Theater program].
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HISTORY OF THE KINDERTR ANSPORT After the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht, in which thousands of Jewish businesses and institutions were destroyed and Jews were assaulted, killed, and 30,000 herded into concentration camps, the Movement for the care of Children from Germany was formed. Between 1938 and 1939, nearly 10,000 unaccompanied children rode trains out of Germany to freedom in Britain, America or Paraguay. At one point, seven hundred children arrived in Britain every week, their passports altered so that all the boys were Jacob and all the girls Sarah, their ages ranging from four to sixteen. Once the war with Britain began, trains stopped. Most of the children never saw their parents again. Based on the real-life accounts of these children, this moving play tells the story of one of them ... (p. 3 program)