The Boy on the Train: A Father and Son's Kindertransport Story - Softcover

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Oldenburg, Germany, November 1938: Georg Hahlo had emerged unscathed from the horrors of Kristallnacht, seemingly due to a bureaucratic oversight. Now he was standing in front of the Polizeiamt, the intimidating police administration building, preparing to take an audacious gamble: could he get his family and himself out of the country before the Nazis finally came for him?

This is the story of how Georg risked his life for his fatherland in the First World War and how that country then turned its back on him. How he was forced to put his young children alone on to trains to England, to abandon his wife and to flee to another continent. It is a story of bravery, resilience and of huge personal cost to family, relationships and happiness. How does the family recover? How does a twelve-year-old boy cope with arriving on his own in another country whose language he does not understand? Can he build a new life?

Thanks to the actions of my grandfather Georg Hahlo, who fled to Bolivia, and my father Dieter Hahlo, who arrived in England on the Kindertransport, my brothers and I are here to tell this story. Many refugees, including Kindertransport children, have helped to build the prosperity of this country, a lesson that seems to be in the process of being forgotten. That’s why stories such as these are important.

Any proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to The Wiener Holocaust Library in London.

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