By the time war was declared in September 1939, this brave undertaking had saved 10,000 lives. Twelve days later, the British government implemented an imaginative plan, known informally as the Kindertransport, which allowed many children to leave the horrors of the Nazi regime and find temporary refuge within British families and hostels. In November 1938, international public opinion was shocked by the news of Kristallnacht - the anti-Jewish pogrom that led to the burning of synagogues and the first mass arrests of Jewish men. By the time war was declared in September 1939, this brave undertaking had saved 10,000.
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