Steve Shirley
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Dame Vera Stephanie Shirley was a German-born British information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist.
Shirley in 2013
Kindertransport
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The Kindertransport was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–39 during the nine months prior to the Second World War. The United Kingdom took i
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…and women's rights activist Rosa Buchthal. In July 1939, at the age of five, Shirley and her nine-year-old sister Renate travelled to Britain as Kindertransport child refugees. She was fostered by parents in Sutton Coldfield. She was later re-united with her biological parents, but said she "never really bonded…
Young refugees of the first Kindertransport after their arrival at Harwich, Essex, in the early morning of 2 December 1938
Jewish refugee children on their arrival in London on the Warszawa
1939 issued Identity Document for travelling to the UK, used by a child on the Kindertransport
Hope Square plaque