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by Angela Davis (2019); Published by Oral History Society
This article explores how Holocaust survivors narrate their relationships with their mothers, focusing on the emotional tension between closeness and distance. Drawing on forty oral‑history interviews with women who later lived in Britain and Israel, Davis examines how pre‑war family dynamics, wartime separation, migration, and later motherhood shaped survivors’ memories and self‑understanding. The study shows that mother‑child bonds were often marked by ambivalence, shifting attachments, and the long aftereffects of trauma.
by Chad McDonald (2018); Published by Routledge
McDonald’s article explores how Kindertransport survivors describe the moment they learned the fate of their parents after the Holocaust. Through close analysis of survivor testimonies, she shows how these discoveries shaped their identities, their sense of belonging, and their understanding of what it meant to become “British aliens.” The article highlights the emotional complexity of reconstructing family histories marked by loss, silence, and fragmented information, and it examines how survivors narrate these experiences many decades later.
(October 19, 2022) Published by Austrian Cultural Forum
A film about the exhibition ‘Für das Kind / For the Child‘ – Launch Event in Ottowa.
by Judita Matyášová (November 2, 2023); Published by HateFree Culture
This interview features Karen Kruger, daughter of one of the children rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton‘s Czech Kindertransport. She reflects on her family’s history and the urgency of Holocaust education amid rising global antisemitism.
(October 2, 2024) Published by Sousa Mendes Foundation
A recorded Zoom meeting hosted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation featuring Melissa Hacker, Rachel Dahill-Fuchel, and Susan Mirow, Ph.D. The session discusses Kindertransport experiences and psychological perspectives.
by Wendx Sims Schouten, Paul Weindling (February 8, 2022)
A scholarly article comparing two major British child-migration programs – the British Home Child scheme and the Kindertransport – with a focus on how ideas of mental and physical deficiency, eugenics, and biological determinism shaped decisions about which children were excluded or returned.
(June 19, 2025) Published by DHHRM
A recorded testimony program featuring Bert Romberg, a German‑Jewish child refugee who escaped Nazi persecution via the Kindertransport. Presented at the Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum, the event is part of the museum’s annual Summer Survivor Speaker Series, where Holocaust survivors, refugees, hidden children, and second‑generation descendants share their personal histories.
Published by IWM
This article presents six individual Kindertransport stories through personal objects carried by Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution in 1938–1939. Each vignette highlights one child’s journey, the item they brought with them, and the fate of their family—illustrating both the trauma of separation and the small material traces that preserved memory.
by Hannam, Charles (1977); Published by London: Andre Deutsch
Charles Hannam’s Kindertransport memoir. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Blend, Martha (1996); Published by Edgware, England: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
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