The Kindertransporte were special trains of unaccompanied children brought to Britain in 1938 and 1939. A number of different refugee organisations, concerned at the worsening position of Jews in Germany and Austria, had lobbied the British government to allow children in without visas. The government had agreed, on condition that the refugee organisations raised the necessary funds, found sponsors for each child, and organised travel and resettlement in this country.

Some 10,000 children were brought from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in this way. Many of them, like Grete, never saw their families again.

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