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Do you know these children? The mystery of the Kindertransport photos

The quest of a daughter of a Kindertransport survivor to discover the identity of others who accompanied her

April 5, 2018 15:14
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The photographs are old — 77 years old — but the children in them are young. Some look serious, while others smile. At that point in time, it was still not yet clear that they had escaped from the ultimate horror. As children of the Kindertransport, some of them would never have seen their family again.

On the back of some of the pictures are messages — a few only barely leg­ible.

“To my Dear Irma, in friendship,” says one.

“Remembrance of the trip ‘on that wonderful ship’ from London to Boston.”