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Kitchener Camp Refugees to Britain in 1939

by Weissenberg, Clare (2017)

The aim of this website is to gather together Kitchener camp documents, letters, photographs, and histories. We hope to create a better understanding: of how the Kitchener men escaped from Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in 1939 of what their lives and routines were like in Kitchener camp and of what they went on to do when the camp closed down.

Kindertransports from North Rhine-Westphalia

by Lissner, Cordula, Reuter, Ursula, Stellmacher, Adrian (2016); Published by Kindertransport Project Group of the Yavneh Memorial and Educational Centre

The Project ‘Kindertransports from North Rhine-Westphalia’ had the aim of putting together the full story of the Kindertransport from the Rhineland and Westphalia, about which up until now only fragments had been known, and making the results available to the memorial centres in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, especially their educational departments.

Kindertransport: Tylers Green Hostel for young Jewish Refugees

by Koschland, Bernard (2007); Published by Jewish Historical Society of England

This article in the journal Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions, Volume 41, describes two wartime hostels for young refugees who arrived in Britain under the auspices of the Refugee Children’s Movement. Clearly written, it provides details of the daily life and problems (budgets,etc) of the kind of hostels to which Kinder were sent.

Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph

by Sharples, Carolyn (2004); Published by History Today Magazine

Caroline Sharples discusses the bitter-sweet experiences of the Jewish children permitted to travel to England to escape the Nazi regime, leaving their families behind them. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Kindertransport: Terror, Trauma and Triumph

by Sharples, Carolyn (2004); Published by History Today Magazine

Caroline Sharples discusses the bitter-sweet experiences of the Jewish children permitted to travel to England to escape the Nazi regime, leaving their families behind them.

Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora

by Neumeier, Beate (2003); Published by Rodopi

This chapter in the book “Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments” provides a comparative and insightful analysis of Lore Segal’s personal account “Other People’s Houses;” Diane Samuel’s stage play “Kindertransport,” and the documentary film “Into the Arms of Strangers.” May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora

by Neumeier, Beate (2003); Published by Rodopi

This chapter in the book “Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments” provides a comparative and insightful analysis of Lore Segal’s personal account “Other People’s Houses;” Diane Samuel’s stage play “Kindertransport,” and the documentary film “Into the Arms of Strangers.”

Kindertransport: Britain’s rescue plan

by Kaczmarska, Ela (2010); Published by National Archives

The Wiener Library holds many personal accounts of children evacuated from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia between December 1938 and September 1939. Using individual first-hand accounts sourced from The Wiener Library and documents held at The National Archives, this talk gives insights into how Britain dealt with the refugee children who arrived on the Kindertransports and the difficulties they faced.

Kindertransport: a Rescued Child

by Mimi Ormond (2016)

Mimi Schleissner was only twelve years old when the Nazis invaded the Sudentenland, and she was forced to leave her home and family through the Kindertransport child rescue effort. A memoir.

Kindertransport: A Child’s Journey

by Conway, Jeanne and Sosa, Kena (2019); Published by 4rv Children's Corner

Just before the outbreak of World War II, the Nazis pushed Jewish families to do something they never imagined they would. They sent their children away on a train to faraway places to live with strangers so that they would be safe until the danger passed. As she gets onboard the Kindertransport, a train to hope, ten-year-old Helen will never be the same.

Kindertransport, Before and After, Elegy and Celebration: Sixty Poems, 1980-2007

by Kramer, Lotte (2007); Published by Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

KIndertransport Teaching Resources, British National Archives

Published by British National Archives

A collection of Kindertransport related documents, downloadable for classroom use.

Kindertransport Photographs

by Arbuckle, Alex Q.

A webpage of an introduction to the Kindertransport history and photographs of Kinder arriving and at Dovercourt.

KIndertransport Museum in Vienna

(2014) Published by Milli Segal

“Für das Kind” is dedicated to all who helped ten thousand – mostly Jewish – children in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to escape and to survive the Nazi machinery of death between 1938 and 1939. The first Kindertransport from Vienna left on 10 December 1938 going from Westbahnhof to London, the last one on 22 August 1939. Visits by appointment.

Kindertransport Memory Quilt

by Grosz, Hanus, Kirsten Grosz and Anita Grosz (2000); Published by The Kindertransport Association

Beautiful photographs of the Kindertransport Memory Quilt panels combined with the moving stories behind each square. Can be purchased through the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI.

Kindertransport Memory Quilt

by Grosz, Hanus, Kirsten Grosz and Anita Grosz (2000); Published by The Kindertransport Association

Beautiful photographs of the Kindertransport Memory Quilt panels combined with the moving stories behind each square. Can be purchased through the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI.

Kindertransport Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain

In 1933 Meeting for Sufferings (the executive body of the Society of Friends) set up the Germany Emergency Committee (GEC), later renamed the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA), in response to anti-Jewish laws of the new Nazi regime. This is a list of Kindertransport research resources.

Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History

by Robert Sugar

Exhibition by Robert Sugar Showings include:

  • Temple Am Shalom (Glencoe, IL): April 2007
  • Central College Drama Department (Pella, IA): Winter 2007
  • Florida Atlantic University: April 2006
  • The New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum and Study Center: Fall 2006.

Kindertransport Association Oral History Project Interviews

by Hacker, Grosz, Kollisch

A selection of the interviews conducted by the KTA Oral History Project. Interviewers were all KT2. Interviews done at reunions in the early 1990’s. Placed online by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Interviews and transcripts are also at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan & the Wienner Library, London.

Kindertransport

by Childers, Jennifer (2009); Published by U.S.A: The Wild Rose Press

A romance novel taking place in pre war Nazi Germany. Nurse Erika Lehmier cares for the children housed at Grafeneck Castle as though they were her own. When the SS confiscates Grafeneck, Erika discovers plans to turn the castle into a treatment center that will end the lives of children with disabilities. Erika must find a way to escape – or face the heartbreaking decision to give them a peaceful death by her own hand. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.