A MAN who escaped from the Nazis on a Kinderstransport is to give a talk at Rawdon Community Library.

The talk, at 2pm on February 8, promises to be both thought-provoking and humbling according to the library's publicity officer Emma Glaisher.

She said: "Martin Kapel was born in Germany to Jewish Polish parents. In 1938, when Martin was just 8 year old, he and his family were forcibly expelled from Germany by the Nazis. They eked out a living in Poland, staying with family in Krakow and later in a small village.

"Fortunately, Martin’s mother was able to secure him and his sister a place on a Kindertransport, a train that would bring them to England – a new country where he couldn’t speak the language and the culture was very different to that he knew.

"This is a rare opportunity to hear from someone who experienced life under the Nazis at first hand, and we are very grateful to Martin for coming to talk to us."

Martin said: “I think that the Holocaust has a great deal to teach us. Before that Europeans smugly felt that we were now civilised, we were no longer in the middle ages, we were civilised people and so on. Then the Holocaust taught us that we weren’t as civilised as all that.”

Tickets cost £5.