by Pnina Rosenberg (2013); Published by Yeshiva University
Rosenberg’s article looks at Frank Meisler’s Kindertransport memorials and explores how their design, symbolism, and placement shape public understanding of the Kindertransport. She discusses how the sculptures evoke themes of separation, movement, and survival, and how they function as powerful tools of Holocaust education by inviting emotional and historical reflection.
by Jane Brooks (2019); Published by Berghahn Books
This article examines the experiences of Kindertransport girls who entered the nursing profession in Britain during the Second World War. Brooks shows how these young refugees navigated barriers such as restrictions on “enemy aliens,” workplace discrimination, and the emotional burden of displacement. At the same time, she highlights how nursing offered many of them a path toward stability, belonging, and professional opportunity. The study draws on personal testimonies to illuminate both the challenges and the empowering aspects of their wartime training and work.
by Gerald Holton; Published by The Examiner Club
A personal autobiographical essay by Gerald Holton—Professor of Physics and History of Science, Emeritus at Harvard University—written at age 100 for the Examiners Club. Holton reflects on his childhood in Vienna and Berlin, his escape from Nazism via the Kindertransport, his family’s survival, and his later academic career. He frames his life as shaped by two intertwined forces: the “Celebratory Century” of scientific and cultural progress, and the “Tragic Century” of fascism, war, and genocide.
Published by DOKIN
DOKIN is a Dutch documentation platform dedicated to the histories of German and Austrian refugee children who fled the Third Reich after Kristallnacht and found temporary refuge in the Netherlands. While the British Kindertransport is widely known, DOKIN highlights the lesser‑known fact that almost 2,000 children were admitted to the Netherlands between late 1938 and 1940. The site preserves their names, stories, letters, and the history of the Dutch homes and foster networks that sheltered them.
Published by Crestwood
A biographical oral-history page about Paul Heimann, born in Austria in 1924, who escaped Nazi persecutuon via the Kindertransport.
by Louisa Walters (January 15, 2025); Published by Jewish News
A news report on new historical findings about the rescue of thousands of Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution before the Second World War. The article highlights recent archival research that sheds light on the networks, routes, and individuals involved in helping children flee Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia—often through lesser‑known pathways beyond the well‑documented Kindertransport to Britain. The discoveries deepen understanding of how families, aid organisations, and volunteers worked under extreme pressure to secure children’s safety.
by Jessica Reinisch (2015); Published by History & Policy
Reinisch’s short policy paper argues that refugee crises cannot be understood through simplified historical analogies. She shows that while past events—such as the Kindertransport or post‑war displacement—are often invoked in public debates, these comparisons usually ignore the specific political, social, and institutional contexts that shaped them. Her central point is that history is essential for understanding refugee movements, but only when used carefully and context‑sensitively rather than as moral shortcuts or symbolic references.
Published by Frank Meisler
A new installation of the Holocaust Memorial created by renowned sculptor Frank Meisler, himself a Kindertransport survivor, is scheduled for Coconut Grove, Florida in 2026. The project is being brought forward by his daughter, KT2 Marit Meisler, continuing her father’s artistic and commemorative legacy. The memorial forms part of Meisler’s internationally recognized series honoring the rescue of nearly 10,000 Jewish children through the Kindertransport.
Published by Another Life
A short biographical page on Kindertransport survivor Lotte Kleiderling.
Published by DHHRM
A special exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum presenting the history of the Kindertransport – the rescue effort that, over nine months in 1938–39, brought thousands of unaccompanied Jewish children from Nazi‑occupied Europe to safety in the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, family stories, and firsthand testimony, the exhibition illuminates the wrenching decisions parents made, the journeys the children undertook, and the new lives they began in Britain. Created by the Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin, the exhibition highlights resilience, loss, and the enduring legacy of those who survived.
Published by Lern- und Gedenkort Jawne
A page from the Jawne Center informing about the Kindertransport departures from North Rhine-Westphalia.
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.
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.
Published by Kitchener Camp
A digital archive documenting the Kitchener Camp in Kent, the 1939 British rescue project that admitted nearly 4,000 Jewish men, many fathers of Kindertransport children, released from Nazi camps.
(2025) Published by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
A webpage announcing the global live broadcast of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, inviting institutions worldwide to host communal viewings. The ceremony will be streamed on the Museum‘s YouTube channel with English translations.
by CERN (15 January, 2013)
A biography of Max Reinharz, a Viennese-born Jewish refugee who fled to the UK in 1939, was interned and deported to Australia during the war, and later returned to become a physicist. The resource traces his scientific career at CERN, his contributions to major particle‑physics experiments, and his deep commitment to justice, staff advocacy, and international scientific cooperation throughout and after his career.
by Marie-Catherine Allard (2019); Published by UCL Press
Allard’s article examines Frank Meisler’s Kindertransport – The Arrival as a memorial that links the historical Kindertransport to today’s experiences of displaced children. By showing how the sculpture communicates loss, movement, and resilience across generations, the piece highlights why remembering the Kindertransport matters in current debates about forced migration.
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 Benno Black (2016); Published by World Without Genocide
This document is a first-person testimony by Benno Black, a Kindertransport survivor born in Breslau in 1926. Black recounts his childhood under rising Nazi persecution, and his new life in England. He describes wartime life, work, joining the British Army and eventually learning about his families fate during the Holocaust.
Published by Jewish Museum London
A detailed conference report on the KT80 Symposium, held at University College London, which brought together historians, social scientists, linguists, literary scholars, Kindertransport survivors, and descendants to reassess the history of the Kindertransport eighty years after the rescue of approximately 10,000 mainly Jewish children from Nazi‑occupied Europe. The report highlights new research, and emerging debates that challenge long‑held assumptions about the Kindertransport and broaden understanding of its dimensions.