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Liverpool, England

The port city where Rolf Schild arrived in 1939, a fifteen year old refugee from Nazi Germany traveling on the Kindertransport.

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Liverpool, the major English port city on the River Mersey, is where Rolf Schild arrived in 1939 at age fifteen, having left Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. His parents remained behind in Cologne; he never saw them again.

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