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| Anniversary for Kindertransport | Anniversary for Kindertransport |
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| Prince Charles is helping to mark the 70th anniversary of a decision to allow thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe into the UK. | Prince Charles is helping to mark the 70th anniversary of a decision to allow thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe into the UK. |
| The prince is meeting "Kindertransport" refugees, now elderly citizens, at a reunion in north-west London. | The prince is meeting "Kindertransport" refugees, now elderly citizens, at a reunion in north-west London. |
| About 10,000 mainly Jewish children were allowed into the UK following a 1938 Commons debate on refugee policy. | About 10,000 mainly Jewish children were allowed into the UK following a 1938 Commons debate on refugee policy. |
| The Association of Jewish Refugees says the decision saved the youngsters from "certain death". | The Association of Jewish Refugees says the decision saved the youngsters from "certain death". |
| However, their parents remained in Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. | However, their parents remained in Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. |
| Charitable organisations such as the Red Cross organised the Kindertransport, involving unaccompanied children - aged five to 17 - travelling to Britain by train and boat via Holland. We are celebrating one of the single most important decisions ever taken by the British government Erich ReichAssociation of Jewish Refugees 'We lived on hope and promises'In pictures: Kindertransport | Charitable organisations such as the Red Cross organised the Kindertransport, involving unaccompanied children - aged five to 17 - travelling to Britain by train and boat via Holland. We are celebrating one of the single most important decisions ever taken by the British government Erich ReichAssociation of Jewish Refugees 'We lived on hope and promises'In pictures: Kindertransport |
| Many were orphaned and remained in the UK. | Many were orphaned and remained in the UK. |
| Sunday's gathering is taking place at the Jewish Free School in Kingsbury. | Sunday's gathering is taking place at the Jewish Free School in Kingsbury. |
| The school was instrumental in helping many of the youngsters to be moved from London to Ely, near Cambridge, at the beginning of World War II. | |
| Among those attending are Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, welfare minister Tony McNulty, director Lord Attenborough and former Conservative minister Edwina Currie. | Among those attending are Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, welfare minister Tony McNulty, director Lord Attenborough and former Conservative minister Edwina Currie. |
| Erich Reich, chairman of the Association of Jewish Refugees' Kindertransport committee, said: "We are celebrating one of the single most important decisions ever taken by the British government. | |
| "Thanks to its intervention some 10,000 children, myself included, were saved from certain death." | "Thanks to its intervention some 10,000 children, myself included, were saved from certain death." |