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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