by Chad McDonald; Published by Routledge (2018)
McDonald’s article explores how Kindertransport survivors describe the moment they learned the fate of their parents after the Holocaust. Through close analysis of survivor testimonies, she shows how these discoveries shaped their identities, their sense of belonging, and their understanding of what it meant to become “British aliens.” The article highlights the emotional complexity of reconstructing family histories marked by loss, silence, and fragmented information, and it examines how survivors narrate these experiences many decades later.