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In the tally of victims, not counted are those who fled the madness and escaped with their lives. Though they did not go up in smoke, they lost their homes, their families, and their place in society. Among those were children who were shipped out from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland just before Germany marched into Poland and England was drawn into the war. To save their children, parents sent them to Holland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal — in fact, to any country that permitted them to enter. The largest number, 10,000, were sent to England where they survived; most never saw their parents after their last goodbye.
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Refugee Children’s Movement, Second Annual Report, 1940. p.6. See also Amy Gottlieb, Men of Vision: Anglo-Jewry’s Aid to Victims of the Nazi Regime, 1933–1945 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), pp.79–80.
As reported by Shaul Esh, ‘The Establishment of the “Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland” and its Main Activities’, Yad Vashem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance (Jewish Agency, Yearbook, Vol.7, 1957), p.24.
Richard Bolchover, British Jewry and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p.103.
He used the authority of the agency of the Chief Rabbi to approach government officials to obtain their cooperation for programs he wanted established. See, for example: David Kranzler and Gertrude Hirschler, Solomon Schonfeld: His Page in History (New York: Judaica Press, 1982).
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Dubrovsky, G.W. (2001). Six from Leipzig. In: Roth, J.K., Maxwell, E., Levy, M., Whitworth, W. (eds) Remembering for the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-66019-3_77
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