The ordinary suburban street with a long-hidden tale of daring rescue

Posted on January 28, 2025

Linnet Lane, Aigburth

Among the grand Victorian houses on Linnet Lane in Sefton Park is a building with a very special history. During the war, Number 19 Linnet Lane was used as a hostel to shelter 42 Jewish children who had fled the Nazi regime on the Kindertransport programme.

The Kindertransport was a rescue effort which took place between 1938 and 1939 in the lead-up to war with Nazi Germany. Around 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, arrived in the UK from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia when it became clear Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies would endanger their lives.

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