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Revisiting the Kindertransport

Jonathan Lichtenstein talks to us about how he accompanied his father on a journey back to Berlin, retracing the steps he took in 1939

Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Playwright Jonathan Lichtenstein talks to us about his new book, The Berlin Shadow, which describes how he accompanied his father on a journey back to Berlin, retracing the steps he took in 1939 on the Kindertransport

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