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DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR | Gerda’s Story | PBS

Premieres Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9/8c on PBS.
Gerda Mayer of Vienna recalls saying good bye in 1939 to her parents as she boarded a plane to England as part of the Kindertransport (Children’s Transport), a series of rescue missions that saved thousands of Jewish children. The rest of Gerda’s family was killed in the Holocaust.

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