Editing Hook of Holland (section)

==Kindertransport monument==
[[File:Hoek van Holland Channel Crossing to Life, Kindertransports 1938-1939 des Bildhauers Frank Meisler auf dem Koningin Emmaboulevard im Fährhafen von Hoek van Holland, Rotterdam 04.jpg|left|thumb|''{{Ill|Channel Crossing to Life|nl|Kindertransport Monument Hoek van Holland}}'', [[Frank Meisler]], unveiled November 2011<ref>With the boy sitting down the daily paper ''De Rotterdammer'' of November 11, 1938 is shown with the articles ''Het toelaten van Duitsche Jodenkinderen'' (The admission of German Jewish children) and ''Duizenden Joden moeten Duitschland verlaten'' (Thousands of Jews have to leave Germany).</ref>]]

The ''[[kindertransport]]'', with which Jewish children from [[Germany]], [[Austria]], [[Poland]] and [[Czechoslovakia]] could be brought to England from December 1938 until the outbreak of the [[World War II]], usually went from the children's home stations to the Netherlands by train. The crossing to [[Harwich]] then largely took place from Hook of Holland. The transports were supported by the Dutch government and by volunteers. The first transport, which started on December 1, 1938, at the [[Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof]], reached England on December 2, 1938. When the transport was allowed, the British government stipulated that the children could not be older than seventeen and that their parents could not come along. The [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] stipulated, among other things, that the children at the railway station were not allowed to say goodbye to those left behind. By the time the war broke out in 1939, approximately 10,000 children had been brought to Britain in this way.<ref>[https://historiek.net/kindertranport-monument-in-hoek-van-holland/13776/ Kindertransport-monument in Hoek van Holland]. On: ''Historiek'', online geschiedenismagazine.</ref>
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