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Manfred Lindenbaum

Manfred Lindenbaum, born 1932, is a Kindertransport holocaust survivor. Lindenbaum was only six years old when he and his family were forced to leave Germany in 1938 due to their Polish ancestry. When they made it to Poland, Lindenbaum's mother heard of a potential way for children to get to England, the Kindertransport.

Kindertransport, or "children's transport" in German, was a rescue effort that took place 9 months before the start of World War Two. The UK rescued almost 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Danzig. The kids saved by Kindertransport were put into foster and most were even the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust.

Lindenbaum and his brother Siegfried were sent away on a boat headed for England but unfortunately his 14-year-old sister, Ruth was thought to be too old for the Kindertransport operation. Sadly Ruth and Lindenbaum's parents were all killed in Auschwitz.

After the war when it was time for Lindenbaum to settle down, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was there to help him get back on his feet.

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