Kindertransport

thumb|Young refugees of the first Kindertransport after their arrival at Harwich International Port|Harwich, Essex, in the early morning of 2 December 1938 thumb|Jewish refugee children on their arrival in London on the Warszawa thumb|1939 issued Identity Document for travelling to the UK, used by a child on the Kindertransport thumb|Hope Square plaque

The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–39 during the nine months prior to the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, occupied Czechoslovakia and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools, and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust. The programme was supported, publicised, and encouraged by the British government, which waived the visa immigration requirements that were not within the ability of the British Jewish community to fulfil. The British government placed no numerical limit on the programme; it was the start of the Second World War that brought it to an end, by which time about 10,000 kindertransport children had been brought to the country.