Cyclists retrace route of Kindertransport

Cyclists have begun a commemorative ride retracing the journey of 10,000 children who were rescued from Nazi Europe on the Kindertransport 80 years ago.

A group of 42 people, including descendants and one of the youngest Kinder children, set off yesterday from Friedrichstrasse Station in Berlin, where the first train departed in 1938. The riders will cycle to the Hook of Holland and take a ferry to Harwich in Essex before arriving at Liverpool Street Station in London on Saturday.

The Kindertransport was organised shortly after the anti-jewish violence of Kristallnacht in November 1938.