The story of the ‘Kindertransporte’ (Kindertransports)

Christian and Jewish organisations

   Ruth Meyer, who had moved with her family from Gemünd in the Eifel region to Aachen after the November pogrom, had her departure organised by the British Quakers in May 1939. The Jewish community in Aachen had previously enabled the departure of her brother Alfred, who escaped also with a Kindertransport.*

   Irene Herz from Witten was baptized a Protestant and at first could not find any organisation that was prepared to arrange her departure, until finally the Jewish community did assume responsibility for her. She had moved from Witten to Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, where she was not allowed to continue attending the girls’ grammar school.**

*Hans Dieter Arntz, Judenverfolgung und Fluchthilfe im deutsch-belgischen Grenzgebiet. Kreisgebiet Schleiden, Euskirchen, Monschau, Aachen und Eupen/Malmedy ('The persecution of Jews and rescue operations on the German-Belgian frontier in the districts of Schleiden and Euskirchen‘, Monschau, Aachen and Eupen/Malmedy), Euskirchen, 1990 pp. 379-382

**Interview with Irene D., b. Herz, led by Martina Kliner-Fruck, Stadtarchiv Witten (Witten City Archives)


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