by Presland, John (1944); Published by Bloomsbury House
Out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Bader, Alfred (1995); Published by London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
This is the autobiography of the distinguished chemist, art collector and philanthropist, Alfred Bader. Born in Vienna, Bader fled to England at the age of 14, on a Kindertransport ten months before the outbreak of World War II. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.Although a Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he was interned in 1940 and sent to a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp. In this book, he tells the story of his success through hard work and studies in the United States.
by Åsbrink, Elisabeth (2020); Published by Penguin Random House
Otto Ullmann, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. 13 year old Otto was granted permission to enter the country in accordance with the Swedish archbishop’s secret plan to save Jews on condition that they convert to Christianity. With thorough research, including files initiated by the predecessor to today’s Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) and 500+ letters, Elisabeth Åsbrink illustrates how Swedish society was infused with anti-Semitism, and how families are shattered by war and asylum politics.
by Turner, Barry (1991); Published by London: Bloomsbury
A history of the Kindertransport movement. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Hill, Paula (2002); Published by Ph.D. thesis, University of London
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Fox, Ann (2005); Published by ComteQ Publishing
KTA member Anne Fox takes us behind the lines of her family’s experience in the Holocaust. She shares with us the sorrows of parents and children separated by war, as revealed in letters that came into her possession years later. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Kleine-Ahlbrandt, William Laird (2001); Published by Purdue University Press
Twelve Purdue University faculty who were holocaust survivors tell their story in this oral history. One of these survivors is KTA member Joseph Haberer, who was on the first Kindertransport to England. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Wasserstein, Bernard (1979); Published by New York: Oxford University Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Lawson, Peter (2008); Published by Bergan Journals
This essay in the journal CRITICAL SURVEY, Vol 20, No. 2, discusses how the Holocaust affected the work of Jewish poets who were relocated to England as part of the Kindertransport. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Bader, Alfred (2009); Published by Orion Publishing Group
In a fast-paced but incredibly detailed and honest description of his adventures, we learn of Bader’s four jobs: philanthropist,art collector, art dealer, and chemist. The book is a tale of high stakes in the art world and of deep friendships maintained over decades.It is a tale of great loss, and of great finds; of shabby treatment, and of incredible sharing and generosity; a tale of a great love, and a great family. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Fast, Vera (2010); Published by IB Taurus
Drawing on unpublished interviews, journals, and articles, Vera K. Fast examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. Children’s Exodus captures the life-affirming stories of child refugees with vivid detail and examines the motivations — religious or otherwise — of the people that orchestrated one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.
by Weber, Ilse (2017); Published by Bunim & Bannigan Ltd. in association with Yad Vashem
Ilse’s letters, written from 1933 to 1944, serve not just as an autobiography, but as a timeline of catastrophic events. Most of the letters are written to her Swedish friend, Lilian von Lowenadler, Lilian’s mother, Gertrude, and to her dear son, Hanus. Hanus was placed on a Sir Nicholas Winton transport to England and was then taken to Sweden by Lilian.
by Göpfert, Rebekka (1999); Published by Frankfurt: Campus
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Salewsky, Anja (2001); Published by Munich: Claassen
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds. (2003); Published by Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Berth, Christine (2005); Published by Munich, Germany: Dolling und Galitz
Interviews. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Friedler, Ya'acov (1994); Published by R. Padligur (Hagen)
Friedler became a journalist well known for his work for the Jerusalem Post and the Israeli radio network. As a Jewish school boy in a small Ruhr Valley town, he was transported to Holland and placed with other refugee children into an old orphanage where the treatment reminds the reader of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”. On the day of Holland’s capitulation he was able to escape to the UK on an old freighter which was strafed at sea by the Luftwaffe. In this book, we follow Friedler from childhood through his life today. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Moratz, Ralph (2015)
Ralph Moratz writes of his childhood journey from Berlin, via Kindertransport to France, and in September 1941 to New York. One of his childhood companions was concert promoter Bill Graham.
by Carlson Berne, Emma (2017); Published by Capstone Press
by Eisinger, Josef (2016); Published by Josef Eisinger
After a calm, middle-class childhood, the author escapes, at fifteen, from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Britain. He finds work as a farm ‘lad’ in Yorkshire, and then, as a dish washer in a Brighton hotel. Following the fall of France, he is interned as an ‘enemy alien’ and is transported to Canada.
Josef Eisinger, professor emeritus at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, is the author of more than 150 articles in scientific journals. His recent books, Einstein on the Road and Einstein at Home were published by Prometheus Books (2011, 2016).