Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 15 November 2018

  • Great Ayton and the Kindertransport

    Great Ayton and the Kindertransport

    80 years ago today Jewish, Quaker and other Christian leaders met with Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, to appeal to him to offer help to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. This was just five days after Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, the anti-Jewish riots in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia when synagogues, shops and…