Posted on July 2, 2025
During my recent fellowship at Yad Vashem, I gained access to the Kindertransports lists from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. I also accessed the Austrian collection at the National Library of Israel which has Kindertransport lists to Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, America, Australia, Belgium, and France as well as many other files from the era. Other lists to Switzerland are available at the United States Holocaust Memorial and the Danzig/ Gdansk lists are at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. Furthermore, I found some of the Kitchener Camp and post-war Kindertransport lists of children who survived the concentration camps in the archives at Yad Vashem and the National Library of Israel.
The World Jewish Relief (WJR) archive is a vital resource for helping me locate Kindertransport lists. Not all the families know their relatives’ Kindertransport number or the exact date of their travel. This information is found within the WJR files. The Kindertransport lists are yet to be made digitally searchable, so everything at the moment is done by hand, so I have to manually search through the material. However, if I know the name of the Kindertransport refugee, their Kindertransport number, and their date of departure or arrival I can find their lists within minutes.
Dr. Amy Williams