Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
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Continue reading ➞ Holocaust Memorial Day – Ordinary People, Bulldogs Bank and the Dann Sisters
November 2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, a British led programme which rescued over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi persecution in Germany and annexed territories. The first trains arrived in Britain on 2nd December 1938 and the scheme continued until the outbreak of war in 1939. Many of the transports arrived in Harwich…
Continue reading ➞ Kindertransport and refugees in West Sussex
West Sussex Record Office 