Uncle Willi survived the war in a sanatorium in Nice, and corresponded with Grete regularly.

Grete was fortunate in that Olive Rudkin was a kind and sensitive woman, who did her best for Grete and later adopted her. After the war, Grete, now Grete Rudkin, took up teaching as a profession. She never married, and died in 1972.

Many of the 10,000 Kinder settled in Britain. In the 1980s they began to meet again and organise reunions under the auspices of the Reunion of Kindertransport organisation. Although they may feel fortunate to have escaped death in the Holocaust, most have been deeply affected by their separation as children from their original language and culture, the loss of their families, and their need to take on a new identity in Britain. Life for Grete Rudkin, and her fellow refugees, was never easy.

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