by Sís, Peter (2021); Published by W.W. Norton & Company
In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter Sís dramatizes Winton’s story in this distinctive and deeply personal picture book. He intertwines Nicky’s efforts with the story of one of the children he saved–a young girl named Vera, whose family enlisted Nicky’s aid when the Germans occupied their country. As the war passes and Vera grows up, she must find balance in her dual identities–one her birthright, the other her choice.
by Emmanuel, Muriel and Vera Gissing (1982); Published by Edgware, England: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
by Rabinowitz, Dorothy (1976); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Judith (2012); Published by Purdue University Press
This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children. Based on archival sources and follow-up interviews with refugee children both forty and seventy years after their flight to Britain, this book gives a unique perspective into the political, bureaucratic, and human aspects of the Kindertransport scheme prior to and during World War II.
by Backer, Ivan (2016); Published by Skyhorse
The breathtaking memoir by a member of “Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer. Now an eighty-six-year-old who remains an activist for peace and justice. He has been influenced by his Jewish heritage, his Christian boarding school education in England, and the always present question “For what purpose was I spared the Holocaust?”.
by Hacker, Melissa (1996); Published by Bee's Knees Productions
Award-winning documentary film directed by the daughter of a Kind from Vienna.
For more information, and to purchase dvds or to arrange a screening, contact melissa@kindertransport.org
by Fox, Anne (1996); Published by Edgware, England: Vallentine Michell
Anne Fox’s Kindertransport memoir.
by Gunning, Greg (2006); Published by ArtsPower National Touring Theatre
Family theater production based on the life of Anne Fox.
by Gay, Peter (1998); Published by New Haven: Yale University Press
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Voorhoeve, Anne (2012); Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Press
At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents, Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself because she doesn’t know when or if she’ll see her true family again. Against the backdrop of war-torn London, Frances struggles with questions of identity, family, and love. Originally published in Germany. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Jacoby, Ingrid (2009); Published by Cornwall, UK: United Writers Publications Ltd
In her third diary we follow Ingrid Jacoby’s life from the age of 23 to 26 years. Still in Oxford and now working for Rosenthals’ Antiquarian Booksellers, Ingrid remembers, at the age of 12, being transported via Kindertransport from Vienna to Falmouth with her sister Lieselotte, discovering that her mother was lost forever after dying in a German concentration camp and subsequently being unable to properly find a close relationship with her father and his new wife. Eventually Ingrid meets Stan, and as the pages come to a close we know that her heart and life have become secure. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Rowe Fraustino, Lisa and Coats, Karen, Editors (2016); Published by University Press of Mississippi
Chapter 4: The Women Who Sent Their Children Away: Mothers in Kindertransport Fiction. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Paul Regelbrugge and Julia Thompson (2021); Published by Holocaust Center for Humanity
What is it like for a child of eight to leave the only home he’s ever known, traveling alone by land and sea to an uncertain future? On the eve of World War II, this was the journey of young Steve Adler. Born in 1930 to a German-Jewish family, Steve was one of the lucky ones: finding refuge from persecution and danger during the Holocaust in England and later the United States.
This true story takes the reader swirling along with moments in history as seen through Steve’s eyes: from the moment his happy world in Berlin was shattered; to separation, evacuation, and foster homes in England; and finally, to stability and strength in the United States. Steve’s refugee story transcends time and place to illuminate the costs of war and bigotry, while also offering a beacon of human hope and resilience.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/more-than-any-child-should-know-a-kindertransport-story-of-the-holocaust-paul-v-regelbrugge/17932710?ean=9781737760108&next=t&next=tby Behrendt, Gideon and Claudia Curio (2001); Published by Frankfurt: Fischer
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Metzger, Lois (1999); Published by New York: Penguin USA Viking Childrens Books
Lois Metzger’s young adult novel features a young main character whose mother was on a Kindertransport.
by Taylor, Marilyn (2001); Published by History Ireland
The story of the Refugee Resettlement Farm, which existed in Millisle, County Down from 1938 to 1948, is one of the little-known ‘secret histories’ of the Second World War in Ireland. To this remote, disused farm on the beautiful Ards peninsula, came, in the late 1930s, Jewish children who escaped on Kindertransports, together with older members of religious Zionist youth groups, and some adults, all refugees from Nazi terror.
by Gottlieb, Amy (1998); Published by London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Lichtenstein, Jonathan (2006); Published by London: Nick Hern Books Limited
A drama involving a Kindertransport family, Memory was first performed at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Wales in November 2006 and subsequently produced at the 59E59 Theaters in New York City in 2007. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Gold, Michele (2014); Published by Kotarim International Publishing, Ltd
Memories That Won’t Go Away tells the stories of hundreds of these kinder. Their experiences as strangers in a strange land were often complicated and painful, but as this book illustrates, the rescued children – and their many thousands of descendants – remain grateful to the nation that saved them.
by Adam Gidnitz (2024); Published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London.
Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling companions, one on each shoulder, a kobold and a dybbuk named Berg and Stein.
Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. It merely involves accomplishing the impossible: becoming a British spy.
The first book in a duology, Max in the House of Spies is a thought-provoking World War II story as only acclaimed storyteller Adam Gidwitz can tell it—fast-paced and hilarious, with a dash of magic and a lot of heart.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/max-in-the-house-of-spies-adam-gidwitz/20582785?aid=56539&ean=9780593112083&listref=kindertransport-fiction