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Part of the Family, Christadelphians and the Kindertransport

by Hensley, Jason

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.

Postcards to a Little Boy. A Kindertransport Story

by 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.

Project Jewish Life in Frankfurt

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.

Reconstructing the Past: Refugee Writings on the Kindertransport

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.

Remembering Refugees: Then and Now

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.

Rescue Operation for Jewish Children from Nazi Germany. the Kindertransporte of 1938-1939

by Muller-Knospe, Bernd (2017); Published by Grin Publishing

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

Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport

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.

Rettet wenigstens die Kinder Kindertransporte aus Frankfurt am Main – Lebenswege von geretteten Kindern

by Rieber, Angelika and Lieberz-Gross, Till (2019); Published by Fachhochschulverlag

Seven authors have collaborated with the project Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main to research and compile biographies of children transport children. These life stories vividly show how the National Socialist policies affect life of the children and how the forced escape from Germany and the most final Separation of relatives shaped their lives.

Rosa’s Child, The True Story of One Woman’s Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past

by Bechhofer, Susie and Jeremy Josephs (1996); Published by London: I.B. Tauris

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

Rosa’s Child, The True Story of One Woman’s Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past

by Bechhofer, Susie and Jeremy Josephs (1996); Published by London: I.B. Tauris

Salt of the Earth: An intergenerational journey of a family’s life, heartbreak and triumph before, during and after the Holocaust

by Pfeffer Vignola, Janet & Pfeffer Pfaff, Margaret; Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An intergenerational journey of a family’s life, heartbreak and triumph before, during and after the Holocaust. Written by two KT2s.

Shefford: The Story of a Jewish School Community in Evacuation 1939-1945

by Grunfeld, Judith (1980); Published by London: Soncino Press

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

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

by Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds (Fall 2004); Published by Kindertransporte 1938/39 - Rescue and Integration. Special Issue 23, no. 1

This entire issue is dedicated to “Kindertransporte 1938/39 – Rescue and Integration”. The table of contents is available here. Online access to the articles requires a login account to Project MUSE.

Six from Leipzig: Kindertransport and the Cambridge Refugee Children’s Committee

by Dubrovsky, Gertrude (2003); Published by Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Six cousins from Leipzig, aged 7 months to 14 years, were among the 2,000 Kindertransport children who arrived in Cambridge. The story of these children brings to life the issues faced by all who travelled on the Kindertransports. Six from Leipzig puts the subject into historical perspective and will be invaluable to those who want to know how rescue was organized, by whom, and under what circumstances. It also emphasizes the role played by women in the rescue of these children, and in running refugee children’s committees; a fact that has not received the attention that it deserves.

Solomon Schonfeld: His Page in History

by Kranzler, David and Gertrude Hirschler, eds. (1982); Published by New York: Judaica Press

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

Stella, One Woman’s True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler’s Germany

by Wyden, Peter (1992); Published by Simon and Schuster

The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, when both were students at the Goldschmidt School in Berlin, and who later became notorious as a “catcher” in wartime Berlin, hunting hidden Jews for the Nazis. A compelling, moving and harrowing chronicle of Stella’s agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her daughter in Israel.

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

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

Still Here: Inspiration From Survivors & Liberators of the Holocaust

by 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.

Sunday’s Child? A Memoir

by 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.

Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

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.