Posted on October 26, 2011
The focus was on how World War II events dramatically altered the lives of a generation of children. Five panelists described the profound effects of dislocation on European children who participated in Kindertransport and other evacuation plans. As a result of being separated from their homes, and, sometimes, their families, thousands of young Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German and Hungarian, children had to adjust to new languages and cultures.