by Angela Davis (2019); Published by Oral History Society
This article explores how Holocaust survivors narrate their relationships with their mothers, focusing on the emotional tension between closeness and distance. Drawing on forty oral‑history interviews with women who later lived in Britain and Israel, Davis examines how pre‑war family dynamics, wartime separation, migration, and later motherhood shaped survivors’ memories and self‑understanding. The study shows that mother‑child bonds were often marked by ambivalence, shifting attachments, and the long aftereffects of trauma.
by Sophie Herxheimer (June 6, 2024)
This blog post by artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer announces two events she is participating in, reflects on her childhood memories of drawing, describes her ongoing practive and shares images from recent workshops. She mentions her recent comissions from the AJR and KTA, where she facilitated paired story-collecting sessions with first- and second-generation Kindertransport descendants and shaped their contributions into a collective poem-
(July 1, 2013) Published by James Kirchick
A narrative article about Marion House, a 90‑year‑old German‑born Kindertransport survivor, who unexpectedly becomes a participant in the Berlin Jewish Museum’s provocative exhibition “The Whole Truth: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Jews.” The exhibit featured a three‑sided glass box in which a real Jewish person sat for two hours each day to answer visitors’ questions. Initially hesitant, Marion ultimately steps into the box—transforming the moment into a profound encounter between survivor and museum visitors.
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.
(April 11, 2012) Published by Claude Kacser
The story of Claude Kacser, who fled Nazi Europe as part of the One Thousand Children (The American Kindertransport) to the United States.
by Fogelman, Eva (1994); Published by New York: Doubleday
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
Published by Jewish Food
A cooking video with Kindertransport survivor and KTA member Ruth Zimbler.
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 Sharon Otterman (November 9, 2023); Published by The New York Times
This New York Times article explores Governor Kathy Hochul‘s appointment of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the famed sex therapist and Kindertransport survivor, as New York State‘s first Honorary Ambassador to Loneliness.
Published by Dunera & Queen Mary Association
The official website of the Dunera Association, an organisation dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the Dunera and Queen Mary internees who were transported from Britain to Australia in 1940.
Published by National Museum of Australia
A concise historical overview from the National Museum of Australia about the Dunera Boys, the group of over 2,000 mainly Jewish refugees from Nazi‑occupied Europe who were deported by Britain to Australia aboard the HMT Dunera in 1940. The page outlines their arrest, transport, internment, and later contributions to Australian cultural and intellectual life.
Published by State Library of NSW
A page informing about the 2025 exhibion from the State Library of New South Wales about the Dunera internees. The page outlines the exhibition‘s focus.
by Susanne Batzdorff (February 13, 1999); Published by America Magazine
A reflective article by Susanne Batzdorff, a refugee from Breslau and later wife of Kindertransport survivor Alfred Batzdorff. She discusses her aunt Edith Stein‘s canonization and what it signifies for Catholic-Jewish relations. The article blends personal family memory with commentary on interfaith understanding.