My mother, Vera Schaufeld, who has died aged 95, came to Britain from Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport train in 1939. Later she became a primary school teacher, latterly specialising in taking on pupils for whom English is a second language. Over her last three decades she also talked about her early experiences with countless groups of children and adults, encouraging them to treat people with empathy.
She often spoke at the invitation of organisations such as the Holocaust Education Trust and the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, but also responded positively to requests from other channels. In 2019 she was appointed MBE for her services to Holocaust education and an honorary doctor of the University of Roehampton, where she had done her teaching training.
