by Zucker, Bat-Ami (2001); Published by Frances Perkins and the German-Jewish Refugees, 1933-1940 (Vol. 89, No. 1)
by Kaplan, Marion A. (1999); Published by New York: Oxford University Press
Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/between-dignity-and-despair-jewish-life-in-nazi-germany-professor-of-history-marion-a-kaplan/55e246ed9c32c598?aid=56539&ean=9780195130928&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Angress, Werner T. (1988); Published by New York: Columbia University Press
Describes the effect on young Jews of Hitler’s rise to power and recounts the experiences of those who attended an agricultural emigration training farm.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/between-fear-and-hope-jewish-youth-in-the-third-reich-werner-angress/3b679ff903dea02b?aid=56539&ean=9780231065986&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Epstein, Helen (1979); Published by New York: Putnam
The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thing in common: their parent’s persecution by the Nazis.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-the-holocaust-conversations-with-sons-and-daughters-of-survivors-helen-epstein/868c9f1839395dde?ean=9780140112849&next=t&next=tby Dwork, Deborah (1991); Published by New Haven: Yale University Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Fogelman, Eva (1994); Published by New York: Doubleday
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Nicholas, Lynn H (2005); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Benz, Wolfgang, ed (1994); Published by Fischer-TB.-Vlg
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Jason, Philip K. and Iris Posners, eds. (2004); Published by Westport, Connecticut: Praeger
Sent across the ocean by their parents and taken in by foster parents and distant relatives, approximately 1,000 children, ranging in age from fourteen months to sixteen years, landed in the United States and out of Hitler’s reach between 1934 and 1945. Seventy years after the first ship brought a handful of these children to American shores, the general public and many of the children themselves remain unaware of these rescues, and the fact that they were accomplished despite powerful forces in and outside the government that did not want them to occur. This is the first published account, told in the words of the children and their rescuers, to detail this unknown part of America’s response to the Holocaust. It will challenge the belief that Americans did nothing to directly and actively save Holocaust victims.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/don-t-wave-goodbye-the-children-s-flight-from-nazi-persecution-to-american-freedom-philip-jason/3ca902b582bc9a86?ean=9780275982294&next=t&next=tby Abish, Walter (2004); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Dwork, Deborah and Jan Van Pelt, Robert (2009); Published by W.W. Norton & Co.
The authors of Auschwitz offer a comprehensive survey of various countries’ responses to the refugee crisis and their often self-serving motives. America, fearing immigrants would become public charges, required financial affidavits from Americans, which were very difficult to get. Britain granted transit visas to the Kindertransport children and visas to famous Jews such as Sigmund Freud. The Dominican Republic allowed refugees to work on agricultural colonies. Internment camps in the Soviet Union offered a chance for survival while camps in France were conduits to the concentration camps.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/flight-from-the-reich-refugee-jews-1933-1946-deborah-dwork/870c5456b54d3575?aid=56539&ean=9780393342642&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Arbabzadah, Nushin (2007); Published by Arcadia Books
This is a collection of memoir, fiction and poetry that explores being British from the perspective of the newly arrived. It presents accounts that range from German-Jews – including several members of the KTA – to Iraqi Kurds, as well as Vietnamese, Afghanis, Chileans and others. The narratives poignantly depict the twin mechanism of loss and hope faced by newcomers to these shores, as they simultaneously search for ways to hold onto memories of lives no longer lived and in turn inhabit new ways of being. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Laqueur, Walter (2001); Published by Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press
This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and “Dr Ruth” Westheimer.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/generation-exodus-the-fate-of-young-jewish-refugees-from-nazi-germany-chairman-international-research-council-walter-laqueur/25f4a791717b48c5?ean=9781860648854&next=t&next=tby Kerry Wallach (Ed) and Aya Elyada (Ed) (2022); Published by Berghahn Books
As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focusing on the relevance and utility of the field for the twenty-first century, German-Jewish Studies explores why studying and applying German-Jewish history and culture must evolve and be given further attention today. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to reconsider the history of antisemitism—as well as intersections of antisemitism with racism and colonialism—and how connections to German Jews shed light on the continuities, ruptures, anxieties, and possible futures of German-speaking Jews and their legacies.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/german-jewish-studies-next-generations-aya-elyada/18341299?ean=9781800736771&next=t&next=t
The 1,400 Holocaust audio interviews and transcripts reflect the vast scope of oral histories collected by researchers which have been archived at the Oral History Division of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They include interviews conducted in the early 1960s. The collection developed over the past 60 years as more research was undertaken by established and emerging scholars and questions relating to the experience of Jews under Nazism broadened. This resource should provide an invaluable tool for researchers in Holocaust studies.
by Rosenzweig, Laura B (2017); Published by New York University Press
Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s
https://bookshop.org/p/books/hollywood-s-spies-the-undercover-surveillance-of-nazis-in-los-angeles-laura-b-rosenzweig/e844eeeb29f34e86?aid=56539&ean=9781479855179&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Auerbacher, Inge (1993); Published by New York: Puffin Books
Inge Auerbacher’s childhood was as happy and peaceful as that of any other German child—until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge’s family was Jewish, she and her parents with sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family’s harrowing story—and how they carried with them ever after the strength and courage of will that allowed them to survive.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-am-a-star-child-of-the-holocaust-inge-auerbacher/e6e2adce21b95226?aid=56539&ean=9780140364019&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby Vegh, Claudine (1984); Published by New York: E.P. Dutton
Interviews with children of the Holocaust. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Borger, Julian (2025); Published by Other Press
This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. 83 years later, Guardian journalist Julian Borger comes across the ad that saved his father, Robert, from the Nazis. Robert had kept this a secret, like almost everything else about his traumatic Viennese childhood, until he took his own life.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-julian-borger/ea0490f59bd82a78?aid=56539&ean=9781635424287&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Robert Sugar
Exhibition by Robert Sugar Showings include: