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 Keesing, Miriam (2014); Published by Duitse Oorlogskinderen In Nederland
Dokin is a Dutch acronym for Duitse Oorlogskinderen In Nederland (German War Children in the Netherlands). Here you will find information about the refugee children from the Third Reich who came to the Netherlands after Kristallnacht. Almost 2000 children came to the Netherlands between November 1938 and September 1939.
by Snow, Dan and Litvack, Leon (2013); Published by BBC One Television
Dan Snow interviews Leon Litvack about the Millisle Farm Project.
by Friedler, Ya'acov (1994); Published by R. Padligur (Hagen)
Friedler became a journalist well known for his work for the Jerusalem Post and the Israeli radio network. As a Jewish school boy in a small Ruhr Valley town, he was transported to Holland and placed with other refugee children into an old orphanage where the treatment reminds the reader of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”. On the day of Holland’s capitulation he was able to escape to the UK on an old freighter which was strafed at sea by the Luftwaffe. In this book, we follow Friedler from childhood through his life today. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Berth, Christine (2005); Published by Munich, Germany: Dolling und Galitz
Interviews. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds. (2003); Published by Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Samuels, Diane (2014); Published by Nick Hern Books
The author’s guide to Kindertransport, an invaluable and uniquely authoritative resource for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play. First staged by the Soho Theatre Company in London in 1993, Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport has enjoyed huge success around the world and is widely studied in colleges. The play tells the story of nine-year-old Eva, a German Jewish girl, sent by her parents on the Kindertransport to start a new life with a foster family in Britain just before the outbreak of World War Two. Years later, she has changed her name to Evelyn and denied her roots.
by Salewsky, Anja (2001); Published by Munich: Claassen
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Göpfert, Rebekka (1999); Published by Frankfurt: Campus
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Benz, Wolfgang, ed (1994); Published by Fischer-TB.-Vlg
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by Neuburger, Werner (2006); Published by Maryland: PublishAmerica
Neuburger recounts growing up in Germany, his relocation in England as part of the Kindertransport, his emigration to the United States and military service during World War II, and his life after the war. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Schubert, Linda (2012); Published by Brandylane Publishers
Berlin had been safe for Anita Powitzer for as long as she could remember. But when Hitler came to power, everything changed. Now policemen harmed instead of helped, and Anita couldn’t even talk to her best friend. Flung from her secure childhood into a fearful world, she and her family had to find a way to flee Berlin before it was too late. It was risky, and Anita had to be separated from her loved ones, but this was the only way out. Alone in a country with a language she didn’t understand, staying with people she had never met, Anita had to wait and hope her parents could join her. Would she and her family be safe?
A journey fraught with danger from Germany to Great Britain, and finally to America, this is the true story of one Jewish family’s escape from Nazi Berlin.
by Weber, Ilse (2017); Published by Bunim & Bannigan Ltd. in association with Yad Vashem
Ilse’s letters, written from 1933 to 1944, serve not just as an autobiography, but as a timeline of catastrophic events. Most of the letters are written to her Swedish friend, Lilian von Lowenadler, Lilian’s mother, Gertrude, and to her dear son, Hanus. Hanus was placed on a Sir Nicholas Winton transport to England and was then taken to Sweden by Lilian.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/dancing-on-a-powder-keg-the-intimate-voice-of-a-young-mother-and-author-her-letters-composed-in-the-lengthening-shadow-of-the-third-reich-her-poems/1c0cc595884f407d?aid=56539&ean=9781933480398&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby 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 Fogelman, Eva (1994); Published by New York: Doubleday
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Fast, Vera (2010); Published by IB Taurus
Drawing on unpublished interviews, journals, and articles, Vera K. Fast examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. Children’s Exodus captures the life-affirming stories of child refugees with vivid detail and examines the motivations — religious or otherwise — of the people that orchestrated one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-s-exodus-a-history-of-the-kindertransport-vera-k-fast/6928947182bfdd9b?aid=56539&ean=9781848855373&listref=kindertransport-history&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 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 David, Ruth L. (2002); Published by London: I.B. Tauris
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Bader, Alfred (2009); Published by Orion Publishing Group
In a fast-paced but incredibly detailed and honest description of his adventures, we learn of Bader’s four jobs: philanthropist,art collector, art dealer, and chemist. The book is a tale of high stakes in the art world and of deep friendships maintained over decades.It is a tale of great loss, and of great finds; of shabby treatment, and of incredible sharing and generosity; a tale of a great love, and a great family. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.