The Holocaust and Wales: Kindertransport 3

Description

Fleeing across Europe to escape the Nazis, about 10,000 Jewish children arrived in Britain between December 1938 and September 1939 on the Kindertransport (children’s transport). The British government only admitted unaccompanied minors through this scheme, even though most of them had lived with their parents and other members of their families before their flight. In this collection of resources, we explore some of the stories of child refugees who came on the Kindertransport to Wales.

Image above: Enemy Aliens and Internees card for Maria Beate Siegel. Findmypast. Original document: © Crown Copyright. Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England.

Kindertransport 3: Arrival in Wales.

This third resource explores the story of Bea Green, a German Jewish child refugee, who travelled to Britain on Kindertransport and lived in Wales after her school was evacuated there.

This resource was produced as part of the 'Côf a lithr, llythyrau a geidw: creating Holocaust resources for Welsh schools' partnership project between Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP), Aberystwyth University, and Jewish History Association of South Wales/Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW/CHIDC). The project is kindly supported by the Association of Jewish Refugees, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Jewish Historical Society of England and Garfield Weston Foundation.

Curriculum for Wales

Health and Wellbeing, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and Communication

Age: 9-14 / Progression Step:3 & 4

Learning Activity Pack

This resource provides learning activities for your students using our website. It is one of a series of 4 on the topic of 'Kindertransport’. Here are links to the other resources in this series:

Kindertransport 1

Kindertransport 2

Kindertransport 4

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