>She must have been terrified at the time. Did she discuss her experience with you?
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>>My mother left Germany at 7 on the Kindertransport. When she started school in England, the teacher (!) made fun of her because she didn't speak English. She decided on the spot to learn English as fast as she could and to forget German. (And, amazingly, at 77, still tells this story--obviously, it made a deep impression.)
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Not the fear. When she left Germany, she was with her two older sisters, and they had an aunt in London, so it wasn't quite the total ripping apart from family it could have been. (She and these two sisters had previously been sent to live with two other aunts in a town where they could go to school, because the local school was closed to them.)

She tells a lot of her stories about her life in England. She was one of the lucky ones, placed with two different families that really cared for her, one in London, and then as children were evacuated to the countryside, one elsewhere. Her older sisters had much worse experiences.

Tamar