Campaigners said their predecessors had relied on Britain’s generosity to flee the Nazis and that a sense of gratitude had motivated them to help vulnerable unaccompanied child refugees, many of whom are fleeing persecution. Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, whose parents fled Nazi-occupied Europe and who has been instrumental in galvanising support for modern child refugees, said: “Both my parents were refugees at the age of 16: both fled Germany. I would not have been born.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jewish children, evacuated from Europe by the Kindertransport programme, at a holiday camp near Harwich, Essex, in December 1938. Britain’s Jewish community now hopes to raise enough to rescue all the unaccompanied children there who have a right to enter the UK. As Europe faces another child refugee crisis, it’s amazing to see the British Jewish community so passionate about sponsoring today’s generation of children in need of protection and sanctuary.”

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2016 06:00 UTC