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Thank you.

The Editor. :-)

Something I'd never heard about before: the UK accepted some 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria from 1938 to the last train in 1940.

• The National Archives
• Quakers
• Kinderstransport Association
• Wikipedia

As ever it seems a mixed story. The fact that the children were able to come to Britain is a fantastic example of interreligious cooperation, and proves that it is possible. But some of the older children ended up interned as enemy aliens, some exported to Canada and other locations, and some ended up working in the British war effort in military and non-military roles.

Unfortunately, still too little, too late. No one wanted to accept the parents earlier, when there was a chance.

 Cool idea from Toxin labs.

Cake

• 120g butter
• 180g sugar
• 180g self raising flour
• 2 large eggs
• 50cc milk
• zest of one lemon

Lemon sauce

• juice of one lemon
• 90g sugar

Beat the butter, beat in the sugar, add the lemon zest, beat in the eggs and milk. Add the flour and beat well.

Pour into a cake tin and cook at 180 degrees centigrade for 25 to 35 minutes.

When done, leave in the tin. Warm the lemon juice to dissolve the sugar, and pour over the cake. Leave to cool in the tin.

This is my grandmother Rene's recipe - tastes fantastic.

Fantastic new page from the University of Tokyo IT section.

Shades of Big Brother?