Kindertransport: Tylers Green Hostel for young Jewish refugees

This article describes two wartime hostels for young refugees who arrived in Britain under the auspices of the Refugee Children’s Movement. One hostel was in Tylers Green, a village near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and the other in Great Chesterford, Essex, ten miles south of Cambridge. Also mentioned is the postwar Freshwater Hostel at 833 Finchley Road, Golders Green, London NWi 1. Tylers Green will be the main focus, however, since this is where the author lived from 1941 till its closure in 1947. The archives of the Committee, now my possession, consist of the minute book, in which the first entry is dated 24 January 1940, and other documents including letters and financial statements beginning in 1941 and concluding in 1946. These will eventually be deposited for preservation in an appropriate institution.

More than 9000 youngsters arrived in Britain between the end of 1938 and the outbreak of War under

Written by

Bernd Koschland

Published in

Volume 41

2007

Other articles within the volume

• In memoriam: Lionel Kochan, 1922-2005
• Kindertransport: Tylers Green Hostel for young Jewish refugees
• Mac Goldsmith
• Addendum III: Lieutenant Marcus Bloom: a Jewish hero of the SOE
• Addendum II: More than just a few: Jewish pilots and aircrew in the Battle of Britain
• Addendum I
• Captain Isidore Newman, SOE
• A Jewish contribution to British psychiatry: Edward Mapother, Aubrey Lewis and their Jewish and refugee colleagues at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, 1933-66
• Hagedud Ha-Sini: The Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, 1932—42
• Jewish missionary activity in Portugal between the Wars
• Izak Goller (1891—1939): Zionist poet, playwright and preacher
• Two Hebrew grammars and the Enlightenment
• England expects…: British Jews under the white ensign from HMS Victory to the loss of HMS Hood in 1941
• John Braham — from meshorrer to tenor
• An eighteenth-century Sephardi lady: her relations and her property
• The Mahamad as an Arbitration Court
• The Domus Conversorum: the personal interest of Henry III
• Preface