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The History Hour: The Kindertransport children

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The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis

31/08/2019 GMT

The Kindertransport children

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The Kindertransport children

Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone

The children sent by their parents to safety in the UK, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus when Nina Simone went to live in Liberia.

Around 10,000 children were sent by their parents to safety in the UK out of Nazi-dominated Europe in the run-up to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. Many of the so-called Kindertransport children never saw their parents again. We hear from Dame Stephanie Shirley who arrived in London as a five-year-old girl. 
Also, how the legendary singer Nina Simone went to live in Liberia, plus a key breakthrough in criminal forensics, the lynching of a black teenager that galvanised America's civil rights movement, and the murder of Mexican young women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez.

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