by Kushner, Tony (2012); Published by Manchester University Press
This pioneering study of migrant journeys to Britain begins with Huguenot refugees in the 1680s and continues to asylum seekers and East European workers today.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-battle-of-britishness-migrant-journeys-1685-to-the-present-professor-tony-kushner/6993ea7a33f0ab54?aid=56539&ean=9780719066412&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Lichtenstein, Jonathan (2020); Published by Scribnner UK
A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein’s father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-berlin-shadow-living-with-the-ghosts-of-the-kindertransport-jonathan-lichtenstein/e062a657c8a2be7c?aid=56539&ean=9780316541015&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=t(2018) Published by The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
A cache of 40 letters discovered recently in a UK loft and digitized for The Wiener Library archive, documents the prelude to this more unusual experience from a child’s perspective. The letters were written by a boy in Vienna to his mother, who was already in the UK, over the course of an agonizing four-month separation. During this time each worked frantically towards a reunion that they could not be certain would happen as war clouds gathered. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Reich, Erich (2017); Published by i2i Publishing
The true story of a Jewish refugee boy, Erich, who arrived in this country from Nazi-occupied Europe three days before the start of the war. He was just four, and would never see his parents again. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Elizabeth Anthony (2021); Published by Wayne State University Press
The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to reestablish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust. Elizabeth Anthony investigates their personal, political, and professional endeavors, revealing the contours of their experiences of returning to a post-Nazi society, with full awareness that most of their fellow Austrians had embraced the Nazi takeover and their country’s unification with Germany, clinging to a collective national identity myth as “first victim” of the Nazis. Anthony weaves together archival documentation with oral histories, interviews, memoirs, and personal correspondence to craft a multilayered, multivoiced narrative of return focused on the immediate postwar years.
The Compromise of Return is the first such social history to depict how survivors, individually and collectively, navigated postwar Vienna’s political and social setting. This book will be of special interest to scholars, students, and readers of Holocaust and European studies.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-compromise-of-return-viennese-jews-after-the-holocaust-elizabeth-anthony/15134062?ean=9780814348383&next=t&next=tPublished by Stories from the Dunera and Queen Mary
A digital storytelling site expanding on the histories presented in Dunera Lives. It documents the lives of nearly 3,000 Dunera and Queen Mary internees brought to Australia in 1940, highlighting personal archives, photographs, artworks, and family‑submitted materials. The project aims to recover the largely undocumented experiences of the majority of internees whose stories remain absent from public records.
by Locke, Tim (2014)
Perspectives on family stories of Görlitz, Dachau, the Kindertransport and the Holocaust. Tim Locke, whose mother Ruth(nee Ruth Neumeyer) and uncle Raimund escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England, investigates and shares his family history from the 18th century forward.
by Williams, Frances (2014); Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Introduction: The Forgotten Kindertransportees: A Scottish Experience 1. Protecting the Status Quo: The Reception of the Trans-migrants 2. The Making of an Invisible Trans-migrant: Kindertransportee Care 3. Scottish Care for the Jewish Minor: Kindertransportees’ Adaptation to a New Jewish Life 4. Creating New Olim in Scotland: The Limitations of a Zionist Endeavour 5. Narrating Life Stories: The Long-term Impact of a Residential Upbringing 6. Imagining Scotland: The Scottish Legacy after Migration Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
(2018) Published by Girl Museum
A lovely online resource, showcasing photographs, documents, and videotaped oral histories, with a robust study guide that meets common core educational goals.
(July 26, 2022) Published by Echoes & Reflections
This page announces a webinar for educators focused on the documentary “Three Minutes: A Lengthening“. The session explores how a movie can be used to teach historical context.
The HOME Project provides a network of child protection services to unaccompanied children in Greece whose families and lives have been effected by war and persecution.
Published by Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
An overview from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust explaining the Kindertransport, outlining how the rescue was organised, who the children were, and what they experienced before, during, and after their arrival in Britain.
(July 27, 2012) Published by CUNYQueensborough
A video about the opening of an exhibit on the Kindertransport, featuring Kindertransport survivors and KTA members.
by Guske, Iris, Dr (2007); Published by Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
Unpublished doctoral thesis featuring several members of the KTA.
by Dr. Amy Williams; Published by Hi-Story Lessons
A comprehensive educational article by Dr. Amy Williams that explains the Kindertransport in its historical, political, and emotional context, with a special focus on the life of Eva Paddock—one of the youngest children rescued from Prague in 1939. The article integrates newly rediscovered Kindertransport lists, archival sources, and survivor testimony to illuminate both the rescue effort and its long‑term legacy.
Published by Kindertransports from North Rhine-Westphalia
This website informs about the Kindertransport from North Rhine-Westphalia to Great Britain and offers individual biographical information on Kindertransport survivors.
by Craig-Norton, Jennifer (2019); Published by Indiana University Press
Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory and literature. According to these accounts, the Kindertransport was a straightforward act of rescue and salvation, with little room for a deeper, more complex analysis. Craig-Norton emphasizes the use of archival sources, many of them newly discovered testimonial accounts and letters. This evidence allows compelling insights into interactions between children and parents and caregivers and shows readers a more nuanced and complete picture of the Kindertransport.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-kindertransport-contesting-memory-british-academy-postdoctoral-fellow-jennifer-craig-norton/3dadf50862e07ccd?ean=9780253042217&next=t&aid=56539&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Jennifer Norton (2010)
Norton’s thesis provides a historical overview of the Kindertransport and examines how its memory has been shaped over time. She traces the rescue operation’s context, the experiences of the children involved, and the ways in which public remembrance, survivor narratives, and commemorative practices have constructed the Kindertransport as a historical event. The work combines archival research with memory studies to show how history and remembrance interact in shaping our understanding of the Kindertransport.
by Fry, Helen (2007); Published by Sutton Publishing
This book tells the compelling story of the 10,000 German and Austrian nationals who, fleeing Nazi persecution, arrived in Britain between 1933 and 1939, and at the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939 became ‘enemy aliens’. Many volunteered to serve in the British forces, swore allegiance to George VI and became known as ‘the King’s most loyal enemy aliens’. Interviews with several KTA members are featured, as well as an impressive selection of archive photographs, many of which are reproduced for the first time. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Shmuel, Naomi Anne (2024); Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
In a variety of genres and narrative styles, author and poet Karen Gershon chronicled her European childhood, rescue on the Kindertransport, and life in the aftermath of the Holocaust, with unmatched candor and stunning insight. Based on Gershon’s private archives and letters to her sister, this biography presents a fascinating portrait of a child survivor whose talent for writing crowned her the voice of a whole generation. The major events of Gershon’s life are presented with great perspicacity alongside her development as a writer forced to change languages.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-legacy-of-karen-gershon-child-survivor-to-author-and-poet-naomi-anne-shmuel/5aa31747b5b9036f?aid=56539&ean=9781036406134&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=t