Emeritus Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has called for Britain to respond to the refugee crisis with a humanitarian gesture similar to the Kindertransport rescue of Jewish children before the war. He said that Britain needed to take a more generous approach to accepting refugees. Speaking on BBC2’s Newsnight programme, Lord Sacks said: “Some of the images we have seen in the last few days have brought back images that we thought we would never see again. “They take our mind way back to the Holocaust and it is important to remember simple humanitarian gestures like the Kindertransport which rescued 10,000 children in Germany. “It was only 10,000 out of six million, but it lit a light in the darkest period of history.”