by Kushner, Tony (2012); Published by Manchester University Press
by Ford, Mary R (Volume 2, Number 2, 1983); Published by Immigrants & Minorities Journal, Routledge
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Wasserstein, Bernard (2014); Published by Harvard University Press
A moving account of courage and of all-too-human failings in the face of extraordinary moral challenges, The Ambiguity of Virtue tells the story of Van Tijn’s work on behalf of her fellow Jews as the avenues that might save them were closed off. Between 1933 and 1940 Van Tijn helped organize Jewish emigration from Germany. After the Germans occupied Holland, she worked for the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam and enabled many Jews to escape. Some later called her a heroine for the choices she made; others denounced her as a collaborator.
by Barnett, Ruth (2004); Published by Purdue University Press
by Wyman, David S. (1984); Published by New York: Pantheon Books
by Greschler, Lori (2009); Published by BookSurge Publishing
by Robbins, Sarah Kate, and Zucker, Stanley (2004); Published by Westchester Holocaust Education Center
A group of four short documentary films that tell the history of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945 through the eyes and words of six survivors. Interweaving the powerful personal accounts of these men and women who were children in Europe during the Holocaust, including KTA member Sel Hubert, the film documents their journeys from persecution through liberation to the shores of America, where they overcame horror and loss to create meaningful, productive lives. Created for use in schools.
by Fox, Anne L. and Eva Abraham-Podietz (1998); Published by Springfield, New Jersey: Behrman House
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Rice, Gunther (2014); Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing
“Part memoir, part biography, this story recounts the trials and tribulations of Gunther Rice (born Gunther Zloczower), the youngest of nine children raised in a Polish Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany. At age 14, he was deported with his family (and other Polish Jews) to Poland and for months lived as a refugee in the no-man’s land between Germany and Poland. He was rescued by the Kindertransport and brought to Cardiff, Wales, three days before the start of World War II. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Dekel, Mikhal (2019); Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, a Russian oligarch, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. With literary grace, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust, whose focus is not the concentration camp, but the refugee, and whose center is not Europe, but Central Asia and the Middle East.
Online resource for secondary school teachers. Includes classroom videos; a documentary profile of the author, pianist Mona Golabek; and a special performance where Mona retells her mother’s story, weaving in the piano music from the book. The website complements the book’s curriculum guide, created by Facing History and Ourselves.
by Spaans, Leen (2018); Published by Committee Statue for Truus Historical Society Alkmaar
The statue for Truus Wijsmuller is finished and is worthy in Alkmaar for placement and unveiling, that is to say: when the corona crisis is over. In principle, Tuesday, April 21, 2020 would have been the day of the unveiling. With a reception in the Grote Kerk, guests from home and abroad, some surviving children from 1938-1940, the sculptors Annet Terberg-Pompe and Lea Wijnhoven, and many others.
by Brent, Leslie Baruch (2009); Published by Bank House Books
“Professor Leslie Baruch Brent (known in the scientific world as Leslie Brent) arrived in England late in 1938 in the first of the many Kindertransports. His German-Jewish family was among millions who were murdered by the Nazi regime. In 1943, at the tender age of eighteen, he volunteered for the armed forces. Having studied zoology at the University of Birmingham he became an eminent immunologist in the field of tissue and organ transplantation. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Marcus, Brian and Hersh, June (2016); Published by Itasca Books
The book melds portraits of Holocaust Survivors, including several Kindertransport Survivors, with meaningful quotes to create a living legacy that both honors and informs. Their portraits reveal insight into who they are and their quotes speak volumes of how they feel the world should be. Browse the online gallery of portraits, draw strength from the quotes and join in the conversation by sharing your own family’s story. Profits from the sale of Still Here will go to charities supporting Holocaust education.
by Segal, Lore and Kluger, Ruth (2003); Published by Feminist Press
Stunning contemplation of human relationships, power, and the creation of history through the prism of one woman’s Holocaust survival… Kluger dives in and out of her narrative to consider such topics as her imperfect relationship with her family, her creation of herself as a social being, and the encounters and relationships she’s had with Germans since the war… A work of such nuance, intelligence, and force that it leaps the bounds of genre. – Kirkus
by Wyden, Peter (1992); Published by Simon and Schuster
The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, when both were students at the Goldschmidt School in Berlin, and who later became notorious as a “catcher” in wartime Berlin, hunting hidden Jews for the Nazis. A compelling, moving and harrowing chronicle of Stella’s agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her daughter in Israel.
by Kranzler, David and Gertrude Hirschler, eds. (1982); Published by New York: Judaica Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Dubrovsky, Gertrude (2003); Published by Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
Six cousins from Leipzig, aged 7 months to 14 years, were among the 2,000 Kindertransport children who arrived in Cambridge. The story of these children brings to life the issues faced by all who travelled on the Kindertransports. Six from Leipzig puts the subject into historical perspective and will be invaluable to those who want to know how rescue was organized, by whom, and under what circumstances. It also emphasizes the role played by women in the rescue of these children, and in running refugee children’s committees; a fact that has not received the attention that it deserves.
by Newberry, Linda (2003); Published by Random House
There are two time frames in this novel for young adults that deals with issues of ethnicity, otherness and prejudice. In contemporary Northampton we find Hilly and her friends and family. Her grandmother, Heidigran, suffers from Alzheimer’s. The second time frame – before, during and immediately after the second world war, follows young Sarah Reubens, who is sent from Cologne on the Kindertransport to safety in Northampton. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
(2021) Published by The Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Trust
This website features information and documentation on the life and work of Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized Kindertransports from Prague in the months before WWII. The exhibition page (https://www.nicholaswinton.com/exhibition) covers the whole of Sir Nicholas’ life as well as his Kindertransport work and showcases many documents, photographs and artifacts from the archive to illustrate his story.