by Taylor, Marilyn (2001); Published by History Ireland
The story of the Refugee Resettlement Farm, which existed in Millisle, County Down from 1938 to 1948, is one of the little-known ‘secret histories’ of the Second World War in Ireland. To this remote, disused farm on the beautiful Ards peninsula, came, in the late 1930s, Jewish children who escaped on Kindertransports, together with older members of religious Zionist youth groups, and some adults, all refugees from Nazi terror.
by Behrendt, Gideon and Claudia Curio (2001); Published by Frankfurt: Fischer
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Paul Regelbrugge and Julia Thompson (2021); Published by Holocaust Center for Humanity
What is it like for a child of eight to leave the only home he’s ever known, traveling alone by land and sea to an uncertain future? On the eve of World War II, this was the journey of young Steve Adler. Born in 1930 to a German-Jewish family, Steve was one of the lucky ones: finding refuge from persecution and danger during the Holocaust in England and later the United States.
This true story takes the reader swirling along with moments in history as seen through Steve’s eyes: from the moment his happy world in Berlin was shattered; to separation, evacuation, and foster homes in England; and finally, to stability and strength in the United States. Steve’s refugee story transcends time and place to illuminate the costs of war and bigotry, while also offering a beacon of human hope and resilience.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/more-than-any-child-should-know-a-kindertransport-story-of-the-holocaust-paul-v-regelbrugge/17932710?ean=9781737760108&next=t&next=tby Rowe Fraustino, Lisa and Coats, Karen, Editors (2016); Published by University Press of Mississippi
Chapter 4: The Women Who Sent Their Children Away: Mothers in Kindertransport Fiction. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Hacker, Melissa (1996); Published by Bee's Knees Productions
Award-winning documentary film directed by the daughter of a Kind from Vienna.
For more information, and to purchase dvds or to arrange a screening, contact melissa@kindertransport.org
by Backer, Ivan (2016); Published by Skyhorse
The breathtaking memoir by a member of “Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer. Now an eighty-six-year-old who remains an activist for peace and justice. He has been influenced by his Jewish heritage, his Christian boarding school education in England, and the always present question “For what purpose was I spared the Holocaust?”.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-train-to-freedom-a-jewish-boy-s-journey-from-nazi-europe-to-a-life-of-activism-ivan-a-backer/ea7b51b6488c1e87?aid=56539&ean=9781634506045&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Judith (2012); Published by Purdue University Press
This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children. Based on archival sources and follow-up interviews with refugee children both forty and seventy years after their flight to Britain, this book gives a unique perspective into the political, bureaucratic, and human aspects of the Kindertransport scheme prior to and during World War II.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/never-look-back-the-jewish-refugee-children-in-great-britain-1938-1945-judith-tydor-baumel-schwartz/7e301b51787fa349?aid=56539&ean=9781557536129&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Emmanuel, Muriel and Vera Gissing (1982); Published by Edgware, England: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
When Nicholas Winton met a friend in Prague in December 1938, he was shocked by the plight of thousands of refugees and Czech citizens desperate to flee from the advancing German army. A British organisation had been set up to help the adults, but who would save the children? Winton felt he could not walk away. He set up a makeshift office and in just three weeks interviewed thousands of distraught parents who had the courage to part with their children and send them alone to England. Armed with their details and photos, he returned to London to convince the Home Office of the urgency of the situation. He knew he was working against time. His supreme efforts resulted in eight trainloads bringing 669, mainly Jewish, children to London.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/nicholas-winton-and-the-rescued-generation-save-one-life-save-the-world-muriel-emanuel/d2e85f24082f92bc?aid=56539&ean=9780853034254&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Korman, Gerd (2005); Published by University of Wisconsin Press
Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated St. Louis; the mother left for the United States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own path–from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir plumbs the depths of twentieth-century history to rescue the remarkable life story of one of its survivors.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/nightmare-s-fairy-tale-a-young-refugee-s-home-fronts-1938-1948-gerd-korman/5c4ba1e6567562e5?aid=56539&ean=9780299210847&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby Ramler, Sigfried (2009); Published by Ahuna Press
The book begins with Sig’s childhood in Vienna and follows him at age 14 on the Kindertransport to London, where he experienced the Blitz as well as V-1 and V-2 rocket attacks. After the war, his facility with languages brought him to one of the defining moments of his life: the Nuremberg trials. Working in the new field of simultaneous translation, Sig came face to face with the war’s criminals: Göring, Hess, Höss, and Hitler’s architect, Speer. A meeting with a pretty Hawaiian-Chinese court reporter, Piilani Ahuna, led to marriage and a journey to Hawaii. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Schulhof Rybeck, Erika (2013); Published by Summit Crossroads Press
Erika Schulhof Rybeck tells her story as a tribute to the parents who shielded her from the Nazi horrors swirling around her, horrors that led to their deportation and disappearance. After being a teacher, mother and volunteer, she looks back at age 84 at rare experiences – living in castles and cottages, being sheltered by Catholics, discovering her Jewish heritage, and learning of her illustrious family.
by Katz, Fred Emil (1993); Published by State University of New York Press
What is it in the behavioral makeup of ordinary people, operating in the course of ordinary daily living, that lends itself to participating in horrendous activities – and doing so at times with zeal, at times with joy, at times without duress? Katz demonstrates that we do not need any special behavioral equipment for doing evil. The very same behaviors can take us in both directions for either living humanely and decently or for doing evil. This book demonstrates how some of these processes work, and sensitizes us to the potential for evil in our ongoing daily activities. This knowledge about ordinary behavior can empower us to take charge of our own direction, and help us turn away from beguilings of evil when they come our way.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/ordinary-people-and-extraordinary-evil-a-report-on-the-beguilings-of-evil-fred-emil-katz/9201c875aef58138?aid=56539&ean=9780791414422&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Hensley, Jason (2016)
Christadelphians, the Kindertransport, and Rescue from the Holocaust “Part of the Family” is a book and video project attempting to catalogue the lives and experiences of Jewish refugees who lived with Christadelphians during the 1930s and 1940s. To that end, if readers know of anyone who could possibly be included in a future volume, please contact us.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/part-of-the-family-christadelphians-the-kindertransport-and-rescue-from-the-holocaust/9d9f1fe18abd2d5f?ean=9781532740534&next=t&next=tby Foner, Henry (2013); Published by Yad Vashem Publications
Henry Foner (Heinz Lichtwitz), who had lost his mother at a young age, was sent from Berlin to Wales and lived there with a Jewish couple, who provided him with a warm, loving home. From the moment they parted, Henry’s father sent him colorful illustrated postcards written in German and later on in English. This authentic and moving document presents the postcards and letters that Henry received from his father and other relatives and friends, along with their translation. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Lieberz-Gross, Till and Rieber, Angelika (2012)
The focus of our work is to keep in memory the lives of former Jewish Frankfurt citizens and to learn and teach about present-day Jewish life.
by Sharples, Carolyn (2006); Published by Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
This article analyses the memoirs of the former refugees themselves and sets out the case for re-examining popular representations of the scheme, addressing the diversity of experience for the children once in England, the hardships and emotional upheaval encountered during this stage of their young lives and looking at some of the limitations of the Kindertransport itself. Volume 12, Number 3, pp. 40-62 May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Kushner, Tony (2006); Published by Manchester University Press
Chapter 4 deals specifically with the Kindertransports. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Muller-Knospe, Bernd (2017); Published by Grin Publishing
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Hodge, Deborah (2012); Published by Tundra Books
This book, for children aged 10 and older, includes a compilation of accounts of Kindertransport children and is illustrated with archival photographs, paintings by artist Hans Jackson, and quilt squares created by the Kinder commemorating their rescue.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/rescuing-the-children-the-story-of-the-kindertransport-deborah-hodge/06cf870d777cbf15?aid=56539&ean=9781770492561&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby Shmuel Refael (Editor), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (Editor) (2021); Published by Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
This book is composed of over 30 chapters written by prominent researchers worldwide who belong to the “Second Generation” and “Third Generation” of Holocaust offspring.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/researchers-remember-research-as-an-arena-of-memory-among-descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-a-collected-volume-of-academic-autobiographies-judith-tydor-baumel-schwartz/17407166?ean=9783034341547&next=t&next=t