The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'I was bowled over that these non-Jewish people were nice to us'
Bea Green found a place on a Kindertransport out of Munich in June 1939. She will never forget the warm welcome she received after crossing into the Netherlands• 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’• Ruth Barnett: ‘When I was 14, my mother appeared out of nowhere’
Bea Green’s father was a lawyer in Munich. He had suffered early at the hands of the Nazis – he was beaten up in 1933 for daring to complain to the police about the treatment of one of his clients. They paraded him around the town with a placard round his neck saying: “I am a Jew and I will never again complain to the police.” He came home, the sound of him entering the house waking the eight-year-old Bea
