by Camis, Ilse and Molly (2015); Published by StoryCorps
Kindertransport survivor Ilse Camis speaks with daughter Molly Camis at the 2015 Kindertransport Association conference.
by Winton, Barbara (2014); Published by Troubador Publishing Ltd
Barbara Winton’s biography of her father. There are around 6000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton. They are the descendants of a group of refugee children rescued by him from the Nazi threat in 1939. Some of them know of his existence and the part he played in their history, many others do not.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/one-life-the-true-story-of-sir-nicholas-winton-and-the-prague-kindertransport-barbara-winton/113b63093aa3c16b?aid=56539&ean=9781639367405&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby 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 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 Leverton, Bertha and Shmuel Lowensohn (1990); Published by Sussex, England: Book Guild
The founder of the Reunion of Kindertransport in London put together this collection of writings by Kinder. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by 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 Chitra Ramaswamy (2022); Published by Canongate Books
This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution.
This is a story of migration, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. It is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/homelands-the-history-of-a-friendship-chitra-ramaswamy/18334662?ean=9781838852665&next=t&next=t
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, based in London, has an online archive of articles about the Kindertransports.
Located in Michigan, the Holocaust Memorial Center’s collection includes the three Kindertransport Memory Quilts, made with memorial squares contributed by members of the Kindertransport Association.
(2005) Published by BBC 2 Wales
This documentary, broadcast on BBC 2 Wales on Holocaust Day 2005, features the reminiscences of some of the 200 Kindertransport children who found a haven at Gwrych Castle in North East Wales.
by Gissing, Vera (2007); Published by Teachers TV
A 5 minute video of Vera Gissing, a Kind from Czechoslovakia, remembering her Kindertransport experience and reuniting with an old friend.
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 Anderson, Mark M., ed. (1998); Published by New York: New Press
Hitler’s Exiles is a panoramic, first-person account of the flight from Hitler’s Germany to America. From forgotten archives and obscure published sources, Hitler’s Exiles brings to life the unknown voices of that harrowing time by focusing on the ordinary people who underwent a most extraordinary voyage. Also included are little-known writings by such major figures as Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. Hitler’s Exiles is at once a moving human account and a new classic of the literature of exile.
by Segal, Lore (1985); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love affair–one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/her-first-american-lore-segal/bf4bfe138916ba1b?aid=56539&ean=9781565849495&listref=kindertransport-fiction&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 Krauss, Nicole (2010); Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Great House, a novel consisting of four stories divided among eight chapters, has a number of narrators: Nadia, a young writer living in New York; Aaron, an old Israeli, mourning the death of his wife and desperate to connect to his son, Dov, estranged since the Yom Kippur War; Arthur, a retired Oxford don, married for almost 50 years to the intense Lotte Berg, a Jewish writer who came to England with the Kindertransport; and Izzy, an Oxford student.
by Watts, Irene Kirsten (1995); Published by Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama
This play is aimed at audiences in grades 4 – 6. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Watts, Irene N (2008); Published by Tundra Books
As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding. No longer allowed to go to school or even sit in a café, Marianne’s only comfort is her beloved mother. Things are bad, but could they get even worse? Based on true events, this fictional account of hatred and racism speaks volumes about both history and human nature.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/good-bye-marianne-a-story-of-growing-up-in-nazi-germany-irene-n-watts/f074e50791fd2fa6?aid=56539&ean=9780887768309&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby Rosborough, Kelsey
Girl Museum is the first museum in the world dedicated to girlhood. We are a virtual museum for exhibitions, education, and raising awareness about girls and girlhood globally. We are also an information platform for social/cultural dialogue and investigation. We research and collect cross-cultural historic and contemporary images and stories from and about girlhood around the world. Through exhibitions, publications, and projects, we explore and document the unique experience of being born and growing up female.
by Kollisch, Eva (2001); Published by Thetford, Vermont: Glad Day Books
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center