The Kindertransport children 80 years on: 'I'm grateful my parents sent me away to carry on living'
Bernd Koschland recalls the synagogues burning on Kristallnacht – and how he never saw his parents again after he escaped Nazi Germany the following year• Bob and Ann Kirk: ‘We thought we were going on an adventure’• Ruth Barnett: ‘When I was 14, my mother appeared out of nowhere’• Bea Green: ‘I was bowled over that these non-Jewish people were nice to us’
Bernd Koschland, 87, was born into a family of Orthodox Jews in Fürth, near Nuremberg, in northern Bavaria. His father was a travelling salesman, his mother a housewife, and he had a sister, Ruth, who was seven years older. He says his parents sheltered him from the deteriorating conditions for Jews in the 1930s, but recalls seeing brownshirts – SA paramilitaries – parading in the streets and once caught
