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Gerda's Story

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Gerda Mayer of Vienna recalls saying good bye in 1939 to her parents, killed in Auschwitz.

Gerda Mayer of Vienna recalls saying good bye in 1939 to her parents as she boarded a plane to England as part of the Kindertransport (Children's Transport), a series of rescue missions that saved thousands of Jewish children. The rest of Gerda's family was killed in the Holocaust.

AIR DATE 9/21/16

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