The Dark Side of the Kindertransport

03/01/2026
60 min
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Bringing 10,000 unaccompanied German and Austrian children to Britain in 1939, the Kindertransport has long been a source of national pride. Recent research has uncovered an inconvenient truth: many children suffered abuse, estrangement and forced conversions to Christianity. Read Between the Lines focuses on Martha Braun; taken from her loving Hamburg family into a Manchester home where she was barred from school and made to be their unpaid servant until, in her own words, “I escaped.” Leon Duval, tour guide at Yad Vashem, joins educator Trudy Gold to share this vital story.

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Leon Duval

Leon Duval taught and consulted in the area of strategic financial management. Now retired, he devotes his time to guiding visitors through Yad Vashem and reading and writing about Jewish history and contemporary issues affecting both Israel and the Jewish people.

Trudy Gold

Trudy Gold is the former CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and one of the founder members of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. She has taught Modern Jewish History in schools and universities and for adult groups throughout the World. She is the author of a timeline of Jewish History, […]

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The Dark Side of the Kindertransport

03/01/2026
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60 min

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Leon Duval

Leon Duval taught and consulted in the area of strategic financial management. Now retired, he devotes his time to guiding visitors through Yad Vashem...

Trudy Gold

Trudy Gold is the former CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and one of the founder members of the British delegation to the...