![Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, soon after arriving in Harwich. [LCID: 69141a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fa16bc48-df16-431c-bb5c-226fb3b9b499.jpg "Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, soon after arriving in Harwich. [LCID: 69141a]")
Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, soon after arriving in Harwich. Great Britain, December 2, 1938.
Item View![Jewish refugee children—part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport)—from Vienna, Austria, arrive at Harwich. [LCID: 73340]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/17debf1a-3380-4aa5-90a4-d26d3c57617c.jpg "Jewish refugee children—part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport)—from Vienna, Austria, arrive at Harwich. [LCID: 73340]")
Jewish refugee children—part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport)—from Vienna, Austria, arrive at Harwich. Great Britain, December 12, 1938.
Item View![Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, upon arrival in Harwich. [LCID: 69286]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/792df13b-cde9-4e28-b729-9223fe34edd9.jpg "Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, upon arrival in Harwich. [LCID: 69286]")
Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, upon arrival in Harwich. Great Britain, December 12, 1938.
Item View![Refugee girl, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport), shortly after arrival in Harwich. [LCID: 72039]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c2ff0ae6-8dbb-4782-affc-de246bd1cc5a.jpg "Refugee girl, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport), shortly after arrival in Harwich. [LCID: 72039]")
Refugee girl, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport), shortly after arrival in Harwich. Great Britain, December 2, 1938.
Item View![Two Austrian refugee children, part of a group of predominantly Jewish refugee children on a Children's Transport (Kindertransport), ... [LCID: 81309]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5ec59759-8725-4c8e-8faa-4e752ad7ce74.jpg "Two Austrian refugee children, part of a group of predominantly Jewish refugee children on a Children's Transport (Kindertransport), ... [LCID: 81309]")
Two Austrian refugee children, part of a group of predominantly Jewish refugee children on a Children's Transport (Kindertransport), upon their arrival in Great Britain. Harwich, Great Britain, December 12, 1938.
Item View![Children who arrived in Great Britain on Children's Transports (Kindertransporte) from Germany and Austria take a meal in Harwich. [LCID: 69192]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2c023cbb-a755-4cf5-bf5d-eaf66f0e0b89.jpg "Children who arrived in Great Britain on Children's Transports (Kindertransporte) from Germany and Austria take a meal in Harwich. [LCID: 69192]")
Jewish refugee children, who are members of the first Kindertransport from Germany, eat a meal at the Dovercourt Bay holiday camp near Harwich, England.
![Jewish refugee children from Germany—part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport)—at the holiday camp at Dovercourt Bay, ... [LCID: 10673]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/52df7736-cdd2-4358-85cf-7b6098dba4d7.jpg "Jewish refugee children from Germany—part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport)—at the holiday camp at Dovercourt Bay, ... [LCID: 10673]")
Jewish refugee children from Germany—part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport)—at the holiday camp at Dovercourt Bay, near Harwich, shortly after their arrival in England. Dovercourt Bay, Great Britain, after December 2, 1938.
Item View![Passport issued to Gertrud Gerda Levy, who left Germany in August 1939 on a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) to Great Britain. [LCID: 07816]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/444717ae-3620-4ec2-be1c-41d7155a8b8b.jpg "Passport issued to Gertrud Gerda Levy, who left Germany in August 1939 on a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) to Great Britain. [LCID: 07816]")
Passport issued to Gertrud Gerda Levy, who left Germany in August 1939 on a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) to Great Britain. Berlin, Germany, August 23, 1939.
Item View![Berta and Inge Engelhard play with the pigeons in fron of the Feldherrenhalle in Munich. [LCID: 99683]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2664e4c2-8d51-4794-9435-e31302ab0340.jpg "Berta and Inge Engelhard play with the pigeons in fron of the Feldherrenhalle in Munich. [LCID: 99683]")
Prewar family photograph of Berta and Inge Engelhard holding pigeons in a public square in Munich. Photograph taken in Munich, Germany, 1937.
Following increased anti-Jewish measures, Berta and brother Theo (not pictured here) left Germany on a Kindertransport in January 1939. Inge followed on a different transport a few months later. While the siblings were eventually housed together in England, they faced many challenges during the war including the pain of separation from their parents.
Parents Moshe and Rachel eventually escaped, and the family was ultimately reunited in England.
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Dorrith was born in Kassel, Germany, in December 1938. Her parents were Hans and Trudi Oppenheim. Following increased anti-Jewish measures, Dorrith was among the children sent on Kindertransports to find refuge in the United Kingdom. She left Germany on July 24, 1939. She never saw her parents again. They were deported to Auschwitz, where they perished in October 1944.
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