The University of York commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day, 27th January, with a public online lecture, led by Dame Stephanie Shirley CH. Arriving in Britain in 1939 with her older sister, Shirley was one of the ‘Kindertransport children’. Shirley expressed extreme gratitude at being able to escape: “Hundreds of thousands of children never had the chance to make it to safety. Shirley pointed out that these women would have likely been aware of the ill fate awaiting them upon their return. Shirley pointed out that she may have embellished or forgotten certain details of that journey over the years.