Posted on August 4, 2025
Holocaust experts told historian Amy Williams there was no such thing as a list of the Jewish children rescued in the iconic Kindertransport rescue operation, which saw some 10,000 relocated from continental Europe to Britain and other countries between 1938 and 1940.
Contrary to the assumption of experts, however, Williams has meticulously pinned down documents created for 9,000 of the Jewish children evacuated on the Kindertransport. For decades, those documents had lain buried at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum, deep within a Dutch file on “foreign nationals” in the Netherlands — until Williams identified them at the end of 2024.