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KIndertransport Museum in Vienna

(2014) Published by Milli Segal

“Für das Kind” is dedicated to all who helped ten thousand – mostly Jewish – children in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to escape and to survive the Nazi machinery of death between 1938 and 1939. The first Kindertransport from Vienna left on 10 December 1938 going from Westbahnhof to London, the last one on 22 August 1939. Visits by appointment.

Kindertransport Photographs

by Arbuckle, Alex Q.

A webpage of an introduction to the Kindertransport history and photographs of Kinder arriving and at Dovercourt.

KIndertransport Teaching Resources, British National Archives

Published by British National Archives

A collection of Kindertransport related documents, downloadable for classroom use.

Kindertransport, Before and After, Elegy and Celebration: Sixty Poems, 1980-2007

by Kramer, Lotte (2007); Published by Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Kindertransport: A Child’s Journey

by Conway, Jeanne and Sosa, Kena (2019); Published by 4rv Children's Corner

Just before the outbreak of World War II, the Nazis pushed Jewish families to do something they never imagined they would. They sent their children away on a train to faraway places to live with strangers so that they would be safe until the danger passed. As she gets onboard the Kindertransport, a train to hope, ten-year-old Helen will never be the same.

Kindertransport: a Rescued Child

by Mimi Ormond (2016)

Mimi Schleissner was only twelve years old when the Nazis invaded the Sudentenland, and she was forced to leave her home and family through the Kindertransport child rescue effort. A memoir.

Kindertransport: Britain’s rescue plan

by Kaczmarska, Ela (2010); Published by National Archives

The Wiener Library holds many personal accounts of children evacuated from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia between December 1938 and September 1939. Using individual first-hand accounts sourced from The Wiener Library and documents held at The National Archives, this talk gives insights into how Britain dealt with the refugee children who arrived on the Kindertransports and the difficulties they faced.

Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora

by Neumeier, Beate (2003); Published by Rodopi

This chapter in the book “Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments” provides a comparative and insightful analysis of Lore Segal’s personal account “Other People’s Houses;” Diane Samuel’s stage play “Kindertransport,” and the documentary film “Into the Arms of Strangers.” May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora

by Neumeier, Beate (2003); Published by Rodopi

This chapter in the book “Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments” provides a comparative and insightful analysis of Lore Segal’s personal account “Other People’s Houses;” Diane Samuel’s stage play “Kindertransport,” and the documentary film “Into the Arms of Strangers.”

Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph

by Sharples, Carolyn (2004); Published by History Today Magazine

Caroline Sharples discusses the bitter-sweet experiences of the Jewish children permitted to travel to England to escape the Nazi regime, leaving their families behind them. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

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