The story of the ‘Kindertransporte’ (Kindertransports)

December 1938 to May 1940

  In December 1938, some children from Hattingen, Brigitte and Hans-Joachim Markes, and Fredi and Rika Glücksman, were rescued with one of the first Kindertransports.* Four boys from Bochum were part of the last transport from the Netherlands that took place in May 1940, the war having already begun. On board the SS Bodegraven with a group of 74 Jewish children, they managed to reach the safe haven of England. Norbert Ripp**, Horst Walter Adler, David Werner and Bodo Solomon were then together accommodated in a hostel in Manchester.
Jacob Friedler from Oberhausen, who had previously been in an orphanage in Amsterdam together with the boys from Bochum and his younger brother, was also on board the SS Bodegraven.
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   Ebenfalls auf der SS Bodegraven befand sich Jacob Friedler aus Oberhausen, der mit den Bochumer Jungen und seinem jüngeren Bruder zuvor in einem Waisenhaus in Amsterdam gewesen war.
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*Thomas Weiß, "Diese Tränen werde ich nie vergessen..." Geschichte der Synagogengemeinde Hattingen (‚These Tears I will never forget...‘ Story of the Hattingen synagogue’s congregation’), Hattingen 2005, p. 35

**Ralf Piorr (ed.), "Nahtstellen, fühlbar, hier ..." Zur Geschichte der Juden in Herne und Wanne-Eickel (‘Joints, perceptible, here….’ About the story of Jews in Herne and Wanne-Eickel), Essen 2002, p. 161-169

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