Kitchener's Camp near Sandwich
Between February 1939 and the outbreak of World War Two on 3 September 1939, 3,500 adult Jewish refugees, all of them men, were put on trains from Berlin and Vienna. They travelled via Ostende and Dover to Sandwich in East Kent, where the Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF) had rented an old First World War base known as Kitchener's camp.
Meanwhile in Elham Mary Smith had taken an interest in the plight of refugees from Nazism at the Kitchener Camp, and at Athelstan School in Folkestone where many of her colleagues were Jewish refugees from Germany.
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