by Clare, George (1982); Published by New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
On February 26, 1938, 17-year-old Georg Klaar took his girlfriend Lisl to his first ball at the Konzerthaus. His family was proudly Austrian; they were also Jewish, and two weeks later came the German Anschluss. This incredibly affecting account of Nazi brutality towards the Jews includes a previously unpublished post-war letter from the author’s uncle to a friend who had escaped to Scotland. This moving epistle passes on the news of those who had survived and the many who had been arrested, deported, murdered, or left to die in concentration camps, and those who had been orphaned or lost their partners or children. It forms a devastating epilogue to what has been hailed as a classic of holocaust literature.
by Eire, Carlos (2010); Published by Free Press
With the same passionate immediacy as Eire brought to his memoir of a Cuban boyhood, the National Book Award–winning Waiting for Snow in Havana (2002), he writes now about coming to America at age 11. The story takes readers from the journey to American itself – Eire was one of 14,000 unaccompanied refugee children in 1962’s Operation Pedro Pan – through his time in foster homes, both kind and harsh, and eventually to joining his uncle in Chicago, “where everyone came from somewhere else.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/learning-to-die-in-miami-confessions-of-a-refugee-boy-carlos-eire/4fd63706a30e45f5?aid=56539&ean=9781439181911&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Bayer, Gerd and Freiburg, Rudolf (2009); Published by Koenigshausen & Neumann
The chapter “Die Erfahrung des Kindertransports in der Englischen Literatur,” by Christoph Houswitschka, pages 76-97, may be of interest. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Steinitz, Lucy and David Szonyi, eds. (1976); Published by New York: Bloch Publishing
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Moskovitz, Sarah (1983); Published by New York: Schocken Books
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Gay, Peter (1998); Published by New Haven: Yale University Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Rabinowitz, Dorothy (1976); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Bukiet, Melvin Jules (2003); Published by New York: W. W. Norton
History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation.
“Nothing Makes You Free” considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of many German concentration camps: “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes You Free”).
https://bookshop.org/p/books/nothing-makes-you-free-writings-by-descendants-of-jewish-holocaust-survivors-melvin-jules-bukiet/7f18302984cdd8a2?aid=56539&ean=9780393324259&listref=second-and-third-generations&next=tby 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 Wyman, David S. (1985); Published by New York: Pantheon Books
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Heims, Steve J., ed. (1987); Published by US distributor: Marianne Phiebig
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 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 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=tby Morton, Frederic (2010); Published by Simon and Schuster
One of the most revered essayists and novelists of his generation, Frederic Morton has captured with matchless immediacy the glamour of Vienna before World War I in his bestselling and award-winning works. Now, in his first book in more than fifteen years, he delivers a luminous look at his own unique pursuit of the American dream. Like many Austrian boys in 1936, the author idolizes Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire. When his family is forced to flee Vienna, Fritz Mandelbaum becomes Fred Morton and immigrates to New York City. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Bergman, Carol (1999); Published by New York: Mediacs
This memoir traces the journey of three American women – a Jewish Holocaust survivor, her daughter, and her granddaughter – in search of their family’s history. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stella-one-woman-s-true-tale-of-evil-betrayal-and-survival-in-hitler-s-germany-peter-wyden/1551b6f19bd7106f?aid=56539&ean=9780385471794&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby 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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/tehran-children-a-holocaust-refugee-odyssey-mikhal-dekel/df73e429946c5084?ean=9781665122412&next=tby Wyman, David S. (1984); Published by New York: Pantheon Books
In this landmark work, David S. Wyman argues that a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousand of the Nazis’ victims.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-abandonment-of-the-jews-america-and-the-holocaust-1941-1945-professor-david-s-wyman/18480545e418d40a?aid=56539&ean=9781595581747&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Ford, Mary R (Volume 2, Number 2, 1983); Published by Immigrants & Minorities Journal, Routledge
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.