It is thanks to the discovery of historic documents by Nottingham Trent University freelance research fellow Dr Amy Williams.

Records used by border officials in Holland to allow Jewish children to pass through there on trains to the UK as part of the Kindertransport have been discovered in Yad Vashem’s archives in Israel.

Dr Williams told the Jewish Telegraph: “The documents will help answer questions that many Jewish people who were on the Kindertransport have carried for their entire lives.”

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