After Kristallnacht, refuge was offered in Great Britain to some 10,000 children whose parents wished to send their children off the European mainland for safety. Many of the children who were sent to England were Jewish children escaping Germany. They were all placed with families in Britain; some with Jewish families, others not. The children thought that their stay in England would be temporary, and that once the trouble had died down they would return to their parents.

Most of the children never saw their parents again. The experience of children who were refugees or were hidden during the war is often overlooked because they were not in the camps. They, too, were victims of the Nazis. They, too, escaped otherwise certain death.