When the Kindertransport was created many parents had to make the choice of giving up their children to possibly save them or to keep the children with them and wait out the horror that was happening. This was a difficult decision for many parents. Some parents chose to keep their children with them which their children resented them for. As Ruth Klüger felt when her mother was given one last chance to leave: My heart pounded, for I would have loved to leave, even if it had been a betrayal of her. But she didn't ask me or even look at me once, rather she said 'No. One does not separate a child from her mother.' On the way home I struggled with my disappointment, which I could not express to her without hurting her. I believe I never forgave her for this" (Kaplan, 118).
This includes Lory Cahn whose father pulled her out of the train widow as it was leaving the station. She was devastated that she was not on the train but her father was so happy that she was with him again. These two girls now have to fight with the anger at their parent's decision because there was a chance for them to escape what would happen to them. They also cannot tell their parents how they feel because that would upset them. Hopefully they understood that their parents loved them so much that it became so unbearable to let them go. There were only heartbreaking farewells for parents that chose to let their children go so that they could possibly escape what was to come. The parents were trusting strangers to take care of their children in their place. A fifteen year old boy, Kurt, who was suppose to be one of the children who would be taken care of, he ended up being the stranger taking care of someone else. As he was leaning "out the open window to get a last glance at my parents, who were waving good-bye, when suddenly a woman ran up and handed me a large bundle. 'Give her to my sister at the station!' she screamed" (Fox and Abraham-Podietz, 59).