Susi bechhofer biography of alberta

Susi Bechhofer was just three when she and her twin sister Lotte were packed off on to a train out of Germany.

It must have been terrifying for the Jewish sisters – sent away from their homes with little idea of where they might end up.

Their mother was aware she might never see them again, but she also knew it was the only way of saving them from the persecution of the Nazis.

Susi, who now lives in Rugby, was one of 10,000 young war refugees taken out of Germany just before the Second World War on what became known as Kindertransport.

It probably saved them the horror of the Nazi death camps.

Susi and Lotte weren’t alone. Thousands of other children were rushed out of the country to Britain.

They rode on trains in an evacuation made possible through a Britain rescue mission to save 10,000 Jewish children from what was to come – The Holocaust which claimed the lives of an estimated six m My mother made the ultimate sacrifice to save us from the Nazis SOG