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Dame Stephanie Shirley was among thousands of mostly Jewish unaccompanied children, who were sent by their parents to safety in the UK fleeing the rise of the Nazis in Europe. She was just five years old when her mother put her on a train in Vienna bound for London, not knowing if they would ever meet again. Dame Stephanie tells Witness History about the lasting trauma left by her mother's "fantastic act of love"

Photo: Some of the Jewish child refugees on their arrival from Vienna at Liverpool Street Station in London, July 1939 (Getty Images)