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The Lost Café Schindler

by Schindler, Meriel (2024); Published by W. W. Norton & Company

Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to confront not only their fractured relationship, but also the truth behind their family history.

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The Millisle Farm in Co Down

Published by Down County Museum

Jewish children, who escaped on Kindertransports, and other refugees from Nazi terror found refuge in a remote farm on the Ards peninsula in the late 1930s. The Belfast Jewish community had leased the farm to provide a home and living for these refugees. In Millisle and Donaghadee the local communities, including Millisle Primary School, proved to be firm friends of the farm, providing help with whatever was needed.

The One Thousand Children: Their complete story

(April 28, 2011) Published by Claude Kacser

A YouTube video that describes the One Thousand Children – about 1,400 mostly Jewish children who fled Nazi Europe and arrived in the United States unaccompanied, making them the closest American parallel to the Kindertransport. It briefly features Thea Lindauer, an OTC child, and notes that the video creator Claude Kacser is himself an OTC survivor.

The rescue of Jewish Children Before, During & After the Holocaust

(May 2025) Published by The Ghetto Fighters‘ House Museum

An international online conference organised by The Ghetto Fighters’ House, marking the 30th anniversary of Yad LaYeled, the children’s memorial museum. The event explores the rescue and rehabilitation of Jewish children before, during, and after the Holocaust, highlighting both the Kindertransport and other rescue efforts. It features scholars and institutions including Western Galilee Academic College, Children of War – Holocaust and Genocide Project, and Yad LaYeled France, focusing on historical documentation and postwar recovery.

The Rescue of the Prague Refugees: 1938/39

by Chadwick, W.R. (2010); Published by Matador

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

The resilience of the refugee: how Kindertransport memoirs complicate understandings of “resilience”

by Stephanie Homer (2019); Published by UCL Press

The article examines how Kindertransport memoirs challenge simplified ideas of “resilience.” By analysing autobiographical writings of former Kindertransport refugees, the author shows that their experiences do not fit neatly into heroic or triumphant narratives. Instead, the memoirs reveal emotional complexity: ongoing trauma, ambivalent identities, and the long‑term struggle to rebuild life after forced separation and displacement. The article argues that the popular use of “resilience” can obscure these nuanced realities and oversimplify refugee experiences.

The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

by Deborah Cadbury (2022); Published by PublicAffairs

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring plan: to smuggle her school to the safety of England.

As the school she established in Kent, England, flourished despite the many challenges it faced, the news from her home country continued to darken. Anna watched as Europe slid toward war, with devastating consequences for the Jewish children left behind. In time, Anna would take in orphans who had given up all hope: the survivors of unimaginable horrors. Anna’s school offered these scarred children the love and security they needed to rebuild their lives.

Featuring moving firsthand testimony from surviving pupils, and drawing from letters, diaries, and present-day interviews, The School that Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman’s refusal to allow her belief in a better world to be overtaken by hatred and violence.

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The UK Holocaust Map

Published by AJR

The UK Holocaust Map is an interactive platform that documents Holocaust-related sites, events, and histories across the United Kingdom.

The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy: Voices of Those Who Escaped Before the “Final Solution.”

by Whiteman, Dorit Bader (1993); Published by New York: Insight Books

Dorit Bader Whiteman has woven together the stories of 190 escapees, including several who left via the Kindertransports.

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They Found Refuge

by Bentwich, Norman (1956); Published by London: Cresset Press

Norman Bentwich writes of his involvement with the Kindertransport movement.

They were saved by strangers – Kindertransport

(January 25, 2025) Published by British Embassy Vienna I UN Mission & OSCE

A video about KTA Executive Director Melissa Hacker on the experiences of Kindertransport survivors and the lessons we must not forget.

Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context: German-Jewish Child Refugees’ Accounts of Displacement and Acculturation in Great Britain

by Guske, Iris (2009); Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The present volume is the result of an interdisciplinary oral history research project, which was carried out at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. While each Holocaust survivor’s developmental story is unique, it is, however, linked to the others’ by the common experience of negotiating an identity between two countries, cultures, and religions against the background of unparalleled political upheavals, and as such also sheds light on, and offers ways out of, the traumata suffered in present-day contexts of enforced migration and displacement.

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Unfulfilled Promise – Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Refugee Children in the United States 1934-1935

by Baumel, Judith Tydor (1990); Published by Juneau, AK: Denali Press

A scholarly book by the author of two theses on the Kindertransport movement. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Verfolgung, Flucht, Rettung (Persecution, Flight, Rescue): Die Kindertransportet 1938/39 nach Grossbritannien

by Curio, Claudia (2006); Published by The Zentrum fuer Antisemitismusforschung of the Technische Universitaet Berlin

In this book, her doctoral dissertation, Claudia Curio delves into the question of why for so long pre-WWII emigration studies tended to overlook the Kindertransport experience in contrast to the attention given to the Youth Alijah. Through use of well documented case studies and extensive analysis Curio provides raises many issues of intimate concern to Kinder, and which, as she skillfully shows, had lasting influence on their lives. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

We All Came Alone – The Kindertransport story

(7 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul

An original documentary about the Kindertransport, an effort to rescue Jewish kids. It has been screened for the first time during Yom Hashoah Ceremony at Macdonal International Shul in Netanya, Israel.

We Came as Children: A Collective Autobiography

by Gershon, Karen (1966); Published by New York: Harcourt Brace and World

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

We made no difference – The Rowledge house story – Edie Marcovitch

(8 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul

Edie Marcovitch tells about the Bachad Hostel she and her late husband Shalom managed in Rowledge between 1942 and 2945, where they hosted Jewish children evacuated from London. Some of the children were from the Kindertransport.

We were the only complete family to arrive on a Kindertransport

(8 May, 2019) Published by MacShul - McDonald International Shul

Renee Moss, who came on a Kindertransport aged 20 months tells the story about how the family was separated and by a miracle eventually came reunited to England.

Werner Rothschild: I felt like an American from day one

by Brigitte Hofacker; Published by Jüdisches Leben in Frankfurt

A biographical profile of Werner Rothschild, a Jewish child from Frankfurt who escaped Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport and later built a life in the United States. His story traces the rupture of forced displacement, the challenges of resettlement, and his eventual service in the U.S. Air Force.

What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution?

by Sonnert, Gerhard and Holton, Gerald (2006); Published by New York, Palgrave Macmillan

This book aims to create a collective biography of Jewish young people who were born in Germany or Austria between 1918 and 1935 and fled to the United States. It endeavors to present a statistical picture as well as to capture personal experiences based on a five-year, in-depth study. One of the book’s aims is to provide readers with information to influence the view of immigrant newcomers in the United States today.

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