by Segal, Lore and Kluger, Ruth (2003); Published by Feminist Press
Stunning contemplation of human relationships, power, and the creation of history through the prism of one woman’s Holocaust survival… Kluger dives in and out of her narrative to consider such topics as her imperfect relationship with her family, her creation of herself as a social being, and the encounters and relationships she’s had with Germans since the war… A work of such nuance, intelligence, and force that it leaps the bounds of genre. – Kirkus
https://bookshop.org/p/books/still-alive-a-holocaust-girlhood-remembered-ruth-kluger/84758303997be6e4?aid=56539&ean=9781558614369&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby Marcus, Brian and Hersh, June (2016); Published by Itasca Books
The book melds portraits of Holocaust Survivors, including several Kindertransport Survivors, with meaningful quotes to create a living legacy that both honors and informs. Their portraits reveal insight into who they are and their quotes speak volumes of how they feel the world should be. Browse the online gallery of portraits, draw strength from the quotes and join in the conversation by sharing your own family’s story. Profits from the sale of Still Here will go to charities supporting Holocaust education.
The official website of the Stolpersteine project, the world’s largest decentralized Holocaust memorial created by artist Gunter Demnig. It documents the placement of over 100,000 small brass plaques installed in sidewalks across Europe to commemorate individuals persecuted and murdered by the Nazis. The site provides background on the project, searchable information on stones and locations, guidance for initiating new stones, and educational materials.
(2024) Published by classroom without borders
An event listing for a public talk by filmmaker and KTA Executive Director Melissa Hacker, whose mother was a Kindertransport survivor. The program highlights her work documenting Kindertransport histories.
(23 January 2013) Published by Queensborough Community College
A student-led interview featuring Holocaust and Kindertransport survivor Anita Weisbord and intern Gaelle Muzac.
by Jennifer Krebs (July 29, 2025); Published by Legacy Book Press, LLC (audio: Live Oak Studios)
A riveting and impeccably researched intergenerational family saga of loss, resilience and love written by a KT2. Unique among second-generation memoirs, this book shines a light on some lesser-known stories of migration and adaptation.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stumbling-blocks-jennifer-krebs/b8a6b8e5b25b0643?ean=9798990538726&next=t&aid=56539&listref=kindertransport-memoirby Intrator, Joanne (2023); Published by She Writes Press
On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator’s father poses two unsettling questions: “Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?”
Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did. Repeatedly, Joanne’s restitution quest brings her into confrontation with yet another of her profound fears surrounding Germany and the Holocaust. Having to call on reserves of strength she’s unsure she possesses, the author leans into her professional command of psychiatry, often overcoming flabbergasting obstacles perniciously dumped in her path.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/summons-to-berlin-nazi-theft-and-a-daughter-s-quest-for-justice-joanne-intrator/f002ee7cfa810423?ean=9781647425135&next=t&aid=56539&listref=second-and-third-generationsby Brent, Leslie Baruch (2009); Published by Bank House Books
“Professor Leslie Baruch Brent (known in the scientific world as Leslie Brent) arrived in England late in 1938 in the first of the many Kindertransports. His German-Jewish family was among millions who were murdered by the Nazi regime. In 1943, at the tender age of eighteen, he volunteered for the armed forces. Having studied zoology at the University of Birmingham he became an eminent immunologist in the field of tissue and organ transplantation. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
(11 June 2021) Published by LET‘S CEE
A recorded conversation in which Holocaust survivor and KTA member Ilse Melamid speaks with Iris Singer (MoRaH Austria) and Markus Priller (projektXchange).
Published by The Forward
A short video segment shared by The Forward in honor of its 125th anniversary, featuring Kindertransport survivor Ruth Zimbler in conversation with Padma Lakshmi on Hulu’s Taste the Nation. In the clip, Zimbler reflects on her childhood in Vienna, her family’s flight from Nazism, and the meaning of safety and belonging in America.
by Dekel, Mikhal (2019); Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, a Russian oligarch, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. With literary grace, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust, whose focus is not the concentration camp, but the refugee, and whose center is not Europe, but Central Asia and the Middle East.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/tehran-children-a-holocaust-refugee-odyssey-mikhal-dekel/df73e429946c5084?ean=9781665122412&next=tby Rice, Gunther (2014); Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing
“Part memoir, part biography, this story recounts the trials and tribulations of Gunther Rice (born Gunther Zloczower), the youngest of nine children raised in a Polish Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany. At age 14, he was deported with his family (and other Polish Jews) to Poland and for months lived as a refugee in the no-man’s land between Germany and Poland. He was rescued by the Kindertransport and brought to Cardiff, Wales, three days before the start of World War II. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Fox, Anne L. and Eva Abraham-Podietz (1998); Published by Springfield, New Jersey: Behrman House
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Sabrina Bossert (October 27, 2022); Published by Swiss National Museum
This article recounts the history of the 300-Kinder-Aktion, a 1939 Swiss rescue initiative that admitted mostly Jewish children from southern Germany shortly before World War II. Originally intended as a temporary stay before onward migration, the outbreak of war forced many children to remain in Switzerland for years, which ultimately saved their lives. The piece focuses on the story of Anneliese Laupheimer, a Jewish girl with an intellectual disability, tracing her journey from escape to long-term care, the fate of her family, and the postwar asylum and compensation processes. It also contextualizes the broader Swiss refugee policies and the role of Jewish aid organizations.
by Greschler, Lori (2009); Published by BookSurge Publishing
The 10,000 Children That Hitler Missed reveals the largest and most poignant rescue of endangered children from the brutal clutches of the Nazi empire. The movement was coined the Kindertransport. Over a nine month period before the outbreak of World War II, Britain heroically brought children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in an effort to save their lives. Forced to leave their parents behind, the children were torn apart from their loved ones and said their last goodbyes. With few instructions, they boarded trains, sailed by boat, crossed the English Channel and traveled distances that they could barely comprehend while their parents remained trapped in Nazi territory and many inhaled their final breath under the Nazi regime. Now after seven decades their stories are being told, in their own words from child survivors. The testimonies are chilling and painful; searing with fear and entrenched with tragedy yet beneath their pain they show astonishing resilience.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-10-000-children-that-hitler-missed-stories-from-the-kindertransport/d5a515c608a57a60?aid=56539&ean=9781439243336&listref=kindertransport-history&next=t(November 22, 2018) Published by The Conversation
A The Conversation article offering a historical analysis of the Kindertransport, highlighting both its life‑saving impact and the limitations, exclusions, and political constraints surrounding the rescue of 10,000 Jewish children before WWII. The article explains how the program operated, who was left out, and why the rescue cannot be viewed as wholly successful.
by Barnett, Ruth (2004); Published by Purdue University Press
by Ruth Barnett (2004); Published by Purdue University Press
The article explores how Kindertransport refugees adapted to life in Britain and how their experiences are remembered and discussed across generations. It examines the emotional and cultural challenges the children faced as they adjusted to a new country, often without their parents, and how these experiences shaped their identities. Through intergenerational conversations, the article shows how memories of the Kindertransport are transmitted, reinterpreted, and sometimes contested within families, revealing both continuity and change in how this history is understood.
by Wasserstein, Bernard (2014); Published by Harvard University Press
A moving account of courage and of all-too-human failings in the face of extraordinary moral challenges, The Ambiguity of Virtue tells the story of Van Tijn’s work on behalf of her fellow Jews as the avenues that might save them were closed off. Between 1933 and 1940 Van Tijn helped organize Jewish emigration from Germany. After the Germans occupied Holland, she worked for the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam and enabled many Jews to escape. Some later called her a heroine for the choices she made; others denounced her as a collaborator.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ambiguity-of-virtue-bernard-wasserstein/f037f20123105b71?aid=56539&ean=9780674281387&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Ford, Mary R (Volume 2, Number 2, 1983); Published by Immigrants & Minorities Journal, Routledge
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.