What were the consequences of the Kindertransport?
The most immediate consequence was that we survived; had we stayed in Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia, we would have perished in the Nazi death camps. Furthermore, those parents who sent their children away had a better chance of surviving, either hidden, or by making their way to other countries. However, the majority did not survive and were killed in the concentration camps. Most of us Kinder became productive citizens of whatever country we eventually settled in. Among us are at least one Nobel Prize winner, a very well known screen writer, a costume designer for stage and screen (she turned Dustin Hoffman into a woman in “Tootsie”), scientists, writers, doctors, artists, philanthropists, etc.
