By Luke WelbournBishop Grosseteste University

Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport

What is the Kindertransport?

What I will be covering today

How Kristallnacht started

What exactly was Kristallnacht?

The situation

Morality of the Kindertransport

Goals for this video/presentation • To know what Kristallnacht means and know a summary of the events that took place

• To understand what caused Kristallnacht

• To Understand that Kristallnacht is part of a series of chronological events within history

• To know what the Kindertransport was and how it relates to the events of Kristallnacht

• To understand that each of these events within history exist within the situation and context of the time

• To be able to identify the theological questions that arise from the study of these subjects

What does Kristallnacht mean?• Night of broken glass

• 9th November 1938

Pogrom – An organised Massacre of a particular ethnic group

Expulsion of Polish Jews in Germany

Herschel  Grynszpan

Shooting of Vom Rath

How did it start?

Who was committing the violence?

Why was this a turning point?

What was the response from the world?

The questions

A turning point

Why was Kristallnacht so important?

A event in the context of history

What was the Kindertransport?

The Kindertransport

10,000 children9 months before the beginning of WWII

• Sponsors

• Dovercourt bay summer camp

• Other institutions

The Kindertransport wasn’t perfect

Tough theological questions

• What was the outlook of the survivors?

• Where was God during these events?• Did God allow these events to happen?

• With events such as these is there any justification for a God?

• Was there a duty from the UK government to enact the Kindertransport?

I hope you learnt something