Mike Levy

One might think the plight of Jewish children in Nazi Germany must have been obvious at the time - the clearest, most compelling, most extreme circumstances calling for international humanitarian assistance. Yet as Mike Levy's thoroughly researched and well-written account makes clear the Kindertransport depended on the determination and charity of many individuals, whose stories, sometimes fascinating and often inspiring, have been by and large forgotten, except by the Kinder. The British Government's official contribution was in many ways deliberately unhelpful. In our time, another age of refugees, the tale woven from these lives is an important one.… (mere)