[History: Human Connection] The Train That Said Goodbye: How 10,000 Children Were Saved by Strangers
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were placed on trains out of Nazi-occupied Europe by parents who knew they might never see their sons and daughters again. The children arrived in Britain — alone, frightened, and carrying only what fit in a single suitcase. Waiting for them were strangers who had agreed to take them in. It remains one of the most extraordinary acts of collective human decency in recorded history.
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