Kindertransport play coming to UK train station

Seventy-five years ago, train stations across the country filled with child refugees arriving from Nazi-occupied Europe, at the start of what became known as the Kindertransport.

Now, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the rescue mission, which saved more than 9,500 children, a theatre company is touring station platforms and concourses across the UK, with a production portraying the experience of those children.

Suitcase is an original theatre piece that fuses a site-specific promenade performance with live music. The audience watches and participates as bewildered Kindertransport children meet their foster parents for the first time.

According to director Ros Merkin: “Suitcase marks moments and stories in what will be the last major anniversary for many of the Kinder.”