The Kindertransport children 80 years on: ‘When I was 14, my mother appeared out of nowhere’
Ruth Barnett and her brother were helped by the Quakers to get to the UK from Berlin. But, four years after the war, she was forced to return to Germany by her mother• Bob and Ann Kirk: ‘We thought we were going on an adventure’• Bernd Koschland: ‘I’m grateful my parents sent me away to carry on living’• Bea Green: ‘I was bowled over that these non-Jewish people were nice to us’
Ruth Barnett, 83, was born in 1935, in a Germany that was already descending into Nazi tyranny. Her Jewish father was a judge who had been deprived of his post and frogmarched out of his court by the SS in 1933; her non-Jewish mother ran a cinema-advertising business in Berlin. “We had a brilliant future in front of us until
