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'Kinder' Mark Their Escape From Nazi-Occupied Homelands

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the "Kindertransport," a program which shuttled Jewish children out of Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland before the Nazis wiped out the Jewish population. Many of those "kinder" -- now mostly in their 80s -- eventually ended up in California. We caught up with a few of them at a recent reunion in Irvine.

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