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January 21, 2026

The Jewish Children Who Found Refuge in France on the Eve of World War II

French authorities weren’t sure they could be turned into useful French citizens.

Between November 1938 and September 1939, thousands of Jewish children were spirited out of Nazi Germany and Austria in what came to be known as the Kindertransport. Most found safety in Britain or the U.S. But a few hundred were taken to France, where danger eventually caught up with them. Sonya Michel reviews a new book by Laura Hobson Faure that tells their story: 

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