Posted on December 16, 2025
A seaside town’s role in welcoming hundreds of refugees has been recalled during a moving event.
Close to where more than 500 mostly Jewish children had arrived in Lowestoft 86 years ago, a poignant exhibition has launched to remember those rescued from Nazi oppression.
The Vienna Kindertransport was remembered on Friday, December 12, 2025 as the acclaimed Weiner Library exhibition, A Thousand Kisses, was opened at Lowestoft railway station to mark the anniversary.
Historians, locals and rail industry officials were joined by special guests from the Association of Jewish Refugees.