Why was the Kindertransport important?
The Kindertransport saved only 10,000 children, a small number compared to the million and a half children who perished, yet it has its importance. The children were able to go to a friendly country not through luck, contacts or subterfuge, but through the will of the British people as expressed by their representatives in Parliament. This demonstrates that, even in the worst of times, actions can be taken to save lives. We are but a small part of Holocaust History, but an important one. We were spared the horrors of the death camps, but we were uprooted, separated from our parents, and transported to a different culture where we faced not the unmitigated horror of the death camps, but a very human mixture of kindness, indifference, occasional exploitation, and the selflessness of ordinary people faced with needy children.
