In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps. This is the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, East Kent, to which up to 4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas. The rescue was funded by the British Jewish community, with help from American Jewry. How would the people of Sandwich - a town the same size as the camp - react to so many German-speaking Jewish foreigners, especially as there was a well-organised branch of the British Union of Fascists in Sandwich. This is not just a story of salvation, but also a revealing account of how a small English community reacted to the arrival of so many German Jews in their midst.
