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  • Teaching about the Kindertransport without the Kinder

      Primary History article
    The Kindertransport, literally ‘children’s transport’, was the rescue operation of almost 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish child refugees to Britain between December 1938 and the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.  Many of the Kinder (children) regularly share their experiences in primary schools, where their visit is regarded as...
    Teaching about the Kindertransport without the Kinder

  • The Phoney War: teaching WWII

      Primary History article
    The term ‘phoney war’ refers to the period at the beginning of WWII between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting. It was brought to an abrupt end by the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. The term is thought to have been coined by an...
    The Phoney War: teaching WWII