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Labour peer who fled on Kindertransport makes emotional address to Parliament

Source: PA Archive

A Labour peer who fled to Britain on the Kindertransport scheme during the Second World War has made an emotional address to Parliament to commemorate the Holocaust.

Lord Dubs held back tears as he recalled his experience of travelling to the UK from Czechoslovakia aged six.

While remembering Sir Nicholas George Winton, who rescued hundreds of children from the Nazis, he told the Lords it

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