by Schlesinger, Joe (1990); Published by Toronto: Random House Canada
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Stolzberg Korobkin, Frieda (2008); Published by Devora Publishing
In Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders: Beyond the Kindertransport, Frieda Stolzberg Korobkin presents a compelling, powerful and vividly described odyssey of her life as a six-year- old child sent by her parents (along with her siblings) from their home in Vienna, Austria to the relative safety of England. It is December 1938, and Friedl’s parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her sisters and brother on a kindertransport to England — organized by Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld.
by Selo, Laura (1992); Published by London: Excalibur Press
The autobiographical story of three sisters who traveled from Prague to London.
by Bentwich, Norman (1956); Published by London: Cresset Press
Norman Bentwich writes of his involvement with the Kindertransport movement.
by Whiteman, Dorit Bader (1993); Published by New York: Insight Books
Dorit Bader Whiteman has woven together the stories of 190 escapees, including several who left via the Kindertransports.
by Milton, Edith (2005); Published by Chicago: University of Chicago Press
by Grainger, Jean (2019); Published by Independently Published
Could you put your children on a train to save their lives? Ariella Bannon is alone except for her two Jewish children. With every passing day, life is becoming more and more dangerous for Liesl and Erich in Berlin. The Nazis are allowing some children out on the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? Amazon bestsellers, The Star and the Shamrock, and its sequel The Emerald Horizon are stories of the darkest days in human history, but amid the terror is the indominable human spirit, and the incredible kindness of strangers.
by Deborah Cadbury (2022); Published by PublicAffairs
In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring plan: to smuggle her school to the safety of England.
As the school she established in Kent, England, flourished despite the many challenges it faced, the news from her home country continued to darken. Anna watched as Europe slid toward war, with devastating consequences for the Jewish children left behind. In time, Anna would take in orphans who had given up all hope: the survivors of unimaginable horrors. Anna’s school offered these scarred children the love and security they needed to rebuild their lives.
Featuring moving firsthand testimony from surviving pupils, and drawing from letters, diaries, and present-day interviews, The School that Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman’s refusal to allow her belief in a better world to be overtaken by hatred and violence.
by Lieberman, J. Nina (2004); Published by New York: Vantage Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Chadwick, W.R. (2010); Published by Matador
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Kramer, Lotte (2000); Published by Ware, England: The Rockingham Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Graham, Eliza (2015); Published by Lake Union Publishing - Amazon
by Zurndorfer, Hannele (1983); Published by London: Quartet Books
Hannele Zurndorfer left Dusseldorf in May 1939 on a children’s transport with her younger sister. She ends her story with the last letter she received from her father. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Phillips, Caryl (1997); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
Published by Down County Museum
Jewish children, who escaped on Kindertransports, and other refugees from Nazi terror found refuge in a remote farm on the Ards peninsula in the late 1930s. The Belfast Jewish community had leased the farm to provide a home and living for these refugees. In Millisle and Donaghadee the local communities, including Millisle Primary School, proved to be firm friends of the farm, providing help with whatever was needed.
by Brookner, Anita (1989); Published by New York: Pantheon Books
by Waite Clayton, Meg (2019); Published by Harper Books
From New York Times bestselling novelist Meg Waite Clayton comes a powerful pre-WWII era novel based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe – and one brave woman, Truus Wijsmuller, who helped them escape.
by Fry, Helen (2007); Published by Sutton Publishing
This book tells the compelling story of the 10,000 German and Austrian nationals who, fleeing Nazi persecution, arrived in Britain between 1933 and 1939, and at the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939 became ‘enemy aliens’. Many volunteered to serve in the British forces, swore allegiance to George VI and became known as ‘the King’s most loyal enemy aliens’. Interviews with several KTA members are featured, as well as an impressive selection of archive photographs, many of which are reproduced for the first time. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Craig-Norton, Jennifer (2019); Published by Indiana University Press
Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory and literature. According to these accounts, the Kindertransport was a straightforward act of rescue and salvation, with little room for a deeper, more complex analysis. Craig-Norton emphasizes the use of archival sources, many of them newly discovered testimonial accounts and letters. This evidence allows compelling insights into interactions between children and parents and caregivers and shows readers a more nuanced and complete picture of the Kindertransport.
by Guske, Iris, Dr (2007); Published by Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
Unpublished doctoral thesis featuring several members of the KTA.