Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Otto Braun was the youngest in his family, and his brothers and sisters were too old to be included in the Kindertransport.
Otto Braun was on one of the last trains out of Germany.
He left with only one small brown suitcase, which contained some clothing, a picture of his family, whom he never saw again, and ten Deutschmarks.
The Germans required a bounty escrow of 50 pounds for every child be paid to the Government, to fund their return trip once the war was over.

Quakers met Otto Braun and the other children at the bahnhoff, and escorted them to Holland, and helped them board ships across the channel to England where others, Jews and Christians, met them, and sent to private homes and shelters.

In 1939, Otto Braun was sent to Whittinghame Farm School after he arrived in Britain via Kindertransport.
In late June, 1940, Otto Braun was arrested, and given over for special treatment, while some of his friends were sent to internment camps in places like the Isle of Mann.
He was sent to Glasgow as a prisoner.
He, and fellow Jewish prisoners, were marched through the streets of Glasgow, to be deported to Canada.

In 1939, Ester Dobkowsky was sent to Whittinghame Farm School after she arrived in Britain via Kindertransport.
She joined a MI HA, Middle Hachshara.

From 1939 to 1941, Joseph Folger lived at Whittinghame Farm School.

From 1939 to 1941, Sonja Ibermann lived at Whittinghame Farm School.

In July, Harry Nomburg went to live at Whittinghame Farm School.

In July, 1939, Ruth Peschel went to live at Whittinghame Farm School.

Siegfried Pollack was sent to Whittingehame Farm School, where he learned to speak English, his cousin, John Katz, having provided a German-English dictionary.
His plan of emigrating from Britain to Palestine failed.

Otto Braun, his fellow Jewish prisoners, and hundreds of Italians, were loaded on board.
Barbed wire was strung along the deck, railings and upper structures to be sure and keep the prisoners contained.

Otto Braun was rescued, and put back on another ship with other German Jews, Italians and Germans, and sent to Nova Scotia for internment.
After a year, he was released and joined the Canadian Army.