Britain unveiled a monument to commemorate the arrival of 10,000 Jewish refugee children in the United Kingdom on the eve of World War II. Speaking Tuesday at the dedication ceremony at London’s Liverpool Street station, Orthodox chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks thanked Britain for welcoming the children in the days when a refuge “meant a difference between life and death.”
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