Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week, why Nina Simone chose to leave America at the height of her fame in the 1970s to live in Liberia.

Can you imagine the pain and the energy spent trying not to be yourself?

Plus, a lynching that helped change the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.

We'll have the story of multiple murders during the 1990s in the Mexican border town of

Siedad Juarez and a forensic breakthrough beyond fingerprinting hand analysis.

I have been known on many occasions on a train to sort of lean across to somebody and say,

look I'm terribly sorry and I hope you don't think this is rude but

would you mind terribly if I took a photograph of the back of your hand?

That's all coming up later in the podcast but before all that we're going

back 80 years to the period of rising tension across Europe in the run up to the Second World War.

Sensing the implicit and explicit aims of the Nazis in Germany,

Jewish populations in those countries which appeared to be in the firing line

had some very serious decisions to make, face the coming storm or try to outrun it.

Against this background in the months leading up to the outbreak of the war, thousands of unaccompanied

Jewish and in some cases non-Jewish children were sent on journeys into an unknown future.

They arrived without their parents in the UK.

Mike Lanchin has spoken to Dame Stephanie Shirley,

who came to England aged five as part of this kinder transport.

200 boys and girls wave a greeting to England, Land of the Free. Sport. Jewish and non-airian child refugees from Germany be provided with a temporary home here

while arrangements are made for them to immigrate.

Well I was a little girl called Vera Bhushtau

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