Jewish refugees in Southampton, 1939

Jewish children who are fleeing from the Nazis to Great Britain, receive food at the Southampton train station before they continue their journey to London. Children of the Refugee Children Movement arrived with the US steamer Manhattan in Southampton. Between December 1938 and September 1939 the lives of over 10, 000 children were saved. Various refugee organizations financed the Refugee Children Movement and found foster parents and homes for them. Within a short time, volunteers in Germany made up lists of particularly endangered children. Children who were in danger of being deported, orphans and children whose parents were already in concentration camps

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