75 Years ago Kindertransport evacuees to 10,000 children from Nazi territory to the safety of England on the eve of the second world war. To commemorate the occasion and the people who saved their lives, some 400 members of Kindertransport survive gathered at a Jewish school in London for a meeting on Sunday.
Some revelers saw each other for the first time in decades, and many had similar, harrowing stories to tell.
"We say goodbye to our parents, who said that we would look for a happy reunion in a few weeks," Herman Hirschberger told BBC, "but that is the last time to see". Hirschberger was eleven years old when Kindertransport you sent to Britain.
Two of the attendees had Kindertransport thank not only for safety but for your wedding. Bob and Ann Kirk were transported to England weeks and years later after meeting in a London refugee centre, married to CNN reports.
"Took it him three weeks to take courage to take me out." Three weeks later we were unofficially engaged, "Ann Kirk told CNN.
He returned to connect with other Kinders in BBC notes could be the last great gathering of Kindertransport, given the age of the participants.
"We share something," Bob Kirk told CNN. "All our stories are slightly different, but there is an underlying uniformity. We are survivors."
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