by Hayman, Eva (1992); Published by Auckland: Random Century New Zealand
In June 1939, 15-year-old Eva and her 11-year-old sister Vera were evacuated via Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. They spent most of the war in Poole, Liverpool, Hastings and Monmouth. When writing letters to their parents became impossible, Eva kept a diary of events, not only of the war, but of a teenager grappling with spiritual questions, the rights and wrongs of patriotism as well as being a parent to her sister, the writer Vera Gissing. Suitable for teeenagers.
by Lawson, Peter (2008); Published by Bergan Journals
This essay in the journal CRITICAL SURVEY, Vol 20, No. 2, discusses how the Holocaust affected the work of Jewish poets who were relocated to England as part of the Kindertransport. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. The interviews were selected from a much larger oral history project, the Living Memory of the Jewish Community, which recorded testimony between 1988-2000. The project was developed with the specialist advice of leading Jewish historians and complements a number of collections held by the Sound Archive on Jewish life in Britain.
by Wasserstein, Bernard (1979); Published by New York: Oxford University Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Kleine-Ahlbrandt, William Laird (2001); Published by Purdue University Press
Twelve Purdue University faculty who were holocaust survivors tell their story in this oral history. One of these survivors is KTA member Joseph Haberer, who was on the first Kindertransport to England. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Fox, Ann (2005); Published by ComteQ Publishing
KTA member Anne Fox takes us behind the lines of her family’s experience in the Holocaust. She shares with us the sorrows of parents and children separated by war, as revealed in letters that came into her possession years later. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by 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 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=t(2020) Published by BBC
In 1938, Nicholas Winton was a young stockbroker in London. He was keenly aware of the events unfolding on the continent. Jews were under threat in Nazi-occupied Europe. Anti-Semitism was established in law and violence against Jewish buildings and businesses was increasing. It was clear to many that worse would follow.
By typing “Kindertransport” in the search field, you will access all programs relating to the Kindertransport aired on BBC television, radio and websites.
by Desai, Anita (2000); Published by Harper Perennial
The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany — and his Jewish heritage — for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war’s end.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/baumgartner-s-bombay-anita-desai/a447cd982650a9d9?aid=56539&ean=9780618056804&listref=kindertransport-fiction&next=tPublished by WartimeNI
Ballyrolly House stood in 70 acres of land in Millisle, Co. Down. The Belfast Jewish Community saw to it that the farm would house Kindertransport refugees.
by Sebald, W.G. (2001); Published by New York: Random House
A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
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by Maier, Lilly (2023); Published by Titletown Publishing, LLC
What do a 75-year-old Los Angeles based rocket engineer and an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Austria have in common? Not much at first glance, but Arthur and Lilly influenced each other’s lives in a fateful way.
In 1939, Arthur’s Jewish parents sent their son abroad on a so-called Kindertransport (“children’s transport”), hoping to save him from the Holocaust. The separation is a traumatic experience for the ten-year-old. Although he is rescued – from Austria via France to the United States – his family is murdered by the Nazis. He never sees them again. Sixty-five years later: During a visit to his parents’ former apartment in Vienna, Austria, Arthur Kern meets eleven-year-old Lilly Maier. A decisive encounter for both of them, which not only shapes Lilly’s further life but also leads to Arthur receiving a long-lost legacy from his parents.
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This student-oriented web page offers an overview of the Kindertransport as well as a profile of Nicholas Winton and a link to an article about Kind Alfred Batzdorff.
by Hill, Paula (2002); Published by Ph.D. thesis, University of London
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Turner, Barry (1991); Published by London: Bloomsbury
A history of the Kindertransport movement. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Åsbrink, Elisabeth (2020); Published by Penguin Random House
Otto Ullmann, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. 13 year old Otto was granted permission to enter the country in accordance with the Swedish archbishop’s secret plan to save Jews on condition that they convert to Christianity. With thorough research, including files initiated by the predecessor to today’s Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) and 500+ letters, Elisabeth Åsbrink illustrates how Swedish society was infused with anti-Semitism, and how families are shattered by war and asylum politics.
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