Understanding the Stories

  • Using this image, consider some of the difficulties these child refugees and their families face in choosing to come to Britain?

Understanding the stories of Kindertransport


Using the stories on the previous page, try to match up the name of the refugee with the difficulty they faced.   
 
Click here to read the stories again. 

 

Name of kinder refugee

 

 

Difficulties they faced

 

Franzi Groszmann

 

Parting from loved ones

 

Losing your family

 

Feeling the emotional pain of separation

 

Losing your home

 

Losing your identity

 

Feeling dependent on other people’s kindness

 

Feeling different from everyone else

 

 

Jack Hellman

 

 

Inge Sadan

 

 

Ursula Rosenfeld

 

 

Eva Hayman

 


The kindertransport came to Britain on their own. They were unaccompanied child refugees.