Title: Journey to life
Description: Vera's story poignantly describes how Hitler affected the life of one child, and determined her future. Her parents put her on the Kinder- transport train to Britain on 1 July 1939. She never saw them again. She spent the War years in Sheffield with a foster family, then her life took her around the world with her husband, John O'Brien.
Subjects: Jewish children, Biography, Kindertransports (Rescue operations), Jewish refugees, Refugees, World War, 1939-1945, Jewish Personal narratives, Jewish women, Army spouses
Places: Austria, Great Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand
People: Vera O'Brien (1929-2007)