Bertha Bracey was recognised as a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2010 by Gordon Brown, for her work in helping to bring 10,000 Jewish Kindertransport children from Germany to Britain between December 1938 and September 1939.

In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, sixty Basque refugee children arrived at The Beacon on Tea Garden Lane in Rusthall. The local community’s role in welcoming, healing and nurturing these traumatised children should be celebrated.