by Tim Locke (17 July 2022); Published by WordPress
A blog post (written by a KT2) documenting the discovery of Dela Blakmar‘s letters, photos, and wartime papers which reveal a hidden love story between Hans Neumeyer and Dela Blakmar and her links to anti-Nazi resistance networks.
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
(March 12, 2014) Published by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
A recorded YIVO Institute for Jewish Research event (October 27 2013) featuring survivors and scholars discussing the One Thousand Children (OTC) – Jewish minors rescued from Nazi Europe and brought to the United States without their parents. The program includes a roundtable with Eve Boden, Debórah Dwork, Henry Frankel, Iris Posner, Steven Pressman, and Erwin Tepper, exploring rescue networks and postwar experiences.
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 Jessica Reinisch (2015); Published by History & Policy
Reinisch’s short policy paper argues that refugee crises cannot be understood through simplified historical analogies. She shows that while past events—such as the Kindertransport or post‑war displacement—are often invoked in public debates, these comparisons usually ignore the specific political, social, and institutional contexts that shaped them. Her central point is that history is essential for understanding refugee movements, but only when used carefully and context‑sensitively rather than as moral shortcuts or symbolic references.
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=t(2022) Published by Claims Conference
Video of the International Holocaust Survivors Night in 2022 with the Holocaust and Kindertransport survivor Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
by Robert Sugar
Exhibition by Robert Sugar Showings include:
Published by Kitchener Camp
A digital archive documenting the Kitchener Camp in Kent, the 1939 British rescue project that admitted nearly 4,000 Jewish men, many fathers of Kindertransport children, released from Nazi camps.
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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Published by Tumblr
“Letters from Liberators” documents the immediate reactions of Allied soldiers who liberated Nazi concentration camps in April and May 1945. Although many had heard reports of Nazi atrocities, nothing prepared them for the reality they encountered. Shock, grief, anger, and disbelief shaped the letters and reports they wrote to superiors and loved ones. These firsthand accounts, supported by historic film footage, artifacts, and oral histories, capture the urgency soldiers felt to ensure the world would know what had happened.
by 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.
(2025) Published by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
A webpage announcing the global live broadcast of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, inviting institutions worldwide to host communal viewings. The ceremony will be streamed on the Museum‘s YouTube channel with English translations.