The Jewish Chronicle

Kindertran­sport remembered

- BY JC REPORTER

GERMAN AMBASSADOR Peter Wittig addressed a World Jewish Relief ceremony at Liverpool Street Station on Sunday marking the 80th anniversar­y of the Kindertran­sport.

He told the 250 people gathered near Frank Meisler’s Kindertran­sport sculpture that during the “blind racial hatred of the Nazi regime”, the Kinder- transport was “a beacon of humanity”.

Ruth Barnett spoke about her experience of coming to Britain as a four-year-old from Berlin, calling for tolerance and kindness towards refugees. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis lit the first Chanukah candle.

 ??  ?? Peter Wittig (left) and guests at the ceremony (above)
Peter Wittig (left) and guests at the ceremony (above)
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PHOTO: ANDY TYLER

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