Kinder Transport - 1939

One and a half million children
Were killed in the Nazi camps,
Turned into smoke in the sky,
A few into shades of lamps,
While the US Congress found,
They could not give them refuge
On 'religious family grounds',
But the British opened their ports
And homes to 10.000 children
Through their Kinder Transports,
Those kids were the remnants
Of a lost generation,
And for this, our hearts go out
To the British nation.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz