When Alf Dubs was six years old, his mother put him on a train in Prague knowing she might never see him again. The year was 1939, and Czechoslovakia was already in the clutches of Nazi Germany as World War II neared. For many parents, the only hope was the Kindertransport — a rescue mission that saved thousands of predominately Jewish children from Nazi death camps in eastern Europe. Dubs, today a Labour Party peer in the House of Lords, remembers being confused and frightened as the train pulled out: “I knew something significant was going on but did not know what it was.

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