Kindertransport
German, noun[ˈkɪndɐtʁansˌpɔʁt]
Kindertransport is spelled K-I-N-D-E-R-T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T (15 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 219,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kindertransport is a German masculine noun meaning “The transportation of children” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Transport von Kindern”.
What does Kindertransport mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineThe transportation of children.
- 2
masculineThe organized rescue of (predominantly Jewish) children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig, placing them in British foster homes, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Transport von Kindern 2. Ausreise jüdischer Kinder aus Deutschland/Österreich nach Großbritannien in den Jahren 1938/39
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kindertransport
- Kindertransportes genitive
- Kindertransports genitive
- Kindertransporte plural
- Kindertransporten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kindertransport?
- [ˈkɪndɐtʁansˌpɔʁt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kindertransport in German?
Kindertransport appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).