I have to admit to being extremely ignorant about many of the harrowing details of the Nazi invasion of so many countries and the Holocaust – especially the child victims of it – for no other reason than that I find it very, very distressing so I rarely watch or read anything about it.

This is because I once watched a film called Sophie’s Choice which was about a woman who had to choose which of her children – her son or her daughter – to allow a Nazi to take away from her and supposedly kill, and it so deeply disturbed me, even though it was well over ten years ago that I saw it, I can recall it in almost every detail.

So, it was with trepidation that I watched last night’s Kindertransport Story which is part of the Passover Festival of programmes, and I was both right and wrong to fear it… Read more & comment »