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The Kindertransport children

The Kindertransport children

FromThe History Hour


The Kindertransport children

FromThe History Hour

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Around 10,000 children were sent by their parents to safety in the UK out of Nazi-dominated Europe in the run-up to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. Many of the so-called Kindertransport children never saw their parents again. We hear from Dame Stephanie Shirley who arrived in London as a five-year-old girl.
Also, how the legendary singer Nina Simone went to live in Liberia, plus a key breakthrough in criminal forensics, the lynching of a black teenager that galvanised America's civil rights movement, and the murder of Mexican young women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez.

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Released:
Aug 31, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.