Gabriele Keenaghan, 96, one of the oldest Kindertransport survivors, has shared her story to mark HolocaustMemorialDay 💬 “I want to keep telling my story in the hope it helps people turn away from hatred and division”
On 14 July 1939, some of the 235 Jewish child refugees who came to Britain on the ‘kindertransport’ on their arrival from Vienna at Liverpool Street Station, London
And so her grandmother arranged for her to escape the country through the Kindertransport . In the wake of Nazi’s persecution of Jews, the British government agreed to allow unaccompanied minors under the age of 17 from the German Reich to enter as refugees. From December 1938 until May 1940, the Kindertransport efforts brought about 10,000 children to safety in Great Britain.
“I’ll always remember the sounds of them crying. We were all alone and some were only four years old. Gabriele was evacuated to a boarding convent school in Kent and despite the barriers, she became fluent in English and excelled in her studies. But just after her 16th birthday, she received the news that she was considered an “enemy alien” and she couldn’t stay there.
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