Posted on April 24, 2025
Stories of the Kindertransport service, which saved the lives of hundreds of children at the beginning of World War Two, are to be told at a special event at Swanage bandstand in Dorset.
At 11 am on Thursday May 15th 2025, children and grandchildren of Kindertransport evacuees will be in Swanage to give their thanks for the town’s kindness almost 90 years ago. Among them will be Paul Walder to give a talk about his father Peter, who came to the town on Kindertransport with wartime hero Trevor Chadwick, whose statue now looks over the bandstand.
Trevor Chadwick, who moved to Swanage in 1928 when his father set up Forres School in Northbrook Road, became one of a handful of mainly British volunteers in 1938 who rescued children in Prague most threatened by an impending German Nazi occupation.