The Big Issue

I was welcomed into the UK after fleeing the Nazis. Government hostility towards today’s refugees is unconscionable

This year marks the 85th anniversary of the last train of the Kindertransport rescue effort that brought 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children to safety in the UK. I was one of them. At six years old, I was one of the youngest and, if I’m honest, I didn’t really understand how perilous my situation was.

However, as she waved me off at Prague station, I’m sure my mother understood only too well.

Although many of us

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