Books

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Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

by Kaplan, Marion A. (1998); Published by New York: Oxford University Press

Between Fear & Hope: Jewish Youth in the Third Reich

by Angress, Werner T. (1988); Published by New York: Columbia University Press

Between the Lines: Letters from the Holocaust

by Fox, Ann (2005); Published by ComteQ Publishing

KTA member Anne Fox takes us behind the lines of her family’s experience in the Holocaust. She shares with us the sorrows of parents and children separated by war, as revealed in letters that came into her possession years later. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty For Survival From Nazi Terror

by Kleine-Ahlbrandt, William Laird (2001); Published by Purdue University Press

Twelve Purdue University faculty who were holocaust survivors tell their story in this oral history. One of these survivors is KTA member Joseph Haberer, who was on the first Kindertransport to England. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945

by Wasserstein, Bernard (1979); Published by New York: Oxford University Press

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

Broken Homes: Three Kindertransport Poets

by Lawson, Peter (2008); Published by Bergan Journals

This essay in the journal CRITICAL SURVEY, Vol 20, No. 2, discusses how the Holocaust affected the work of Jewish poets who were relocated to England as part of the Kindertransport. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

By the Moon and the Stars

by Hayman, Eva (1992); Published by Auckland: Random Century New Zealand

In June 1939, 15-year-old Eva and her 11-year-old sister Vera were evacuated via Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia to Great Britain. They spent most of the war in Poole, Liverpool, Hastings and Monmouth. When writing letters to their parents became impossible, Eva kept a diary of events, not only of the war, but of a teenager grappling with spiritual questions, the rights and wrongs of patriotism as well as being a parent to her sister, the writer Vera Gissing. Suitable for teeenagers.

Chemistry & Art: Further Adventures of a Chemist Collector

by Bader, Alfred (2009); Published by Orion Publishing Group

In a fast-paced but incredibly detailed and honest description of his adventures, we learn of Bader’s four jobs: philanthropist,art collector, art dealer, and chemist. The book is a tale of high stakes in the art world and of deep friendships maintained over decades.It is a tale of great loss, and of great finds; of shabby treatment, and of incredible sharing and generosity; a tale of a great love, and a great family. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Child of Our Time: A Young Girl’s Flight From the Holocaust

by David, Ruth L. (2002); Published by London: I.B. Tauris

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

Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors

by Epstein, Helen (1979); Published by New York: Putnam

Helen Epstein’s pioneering look at the second generation.

Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

by Dwork, Deborah (1991); Published by New Haven: Yale University Press

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

Children’s Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport

by Fast, Vera (2010); Published by IB Taurus

Drawing on unpublished interviews, journals, and articles, Vera K. Fast examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. Children’s Exodus captures the life-affirming stories of child refugees with vivid detail and examines the motivations — religious or otherwise — of the people that orchestrated one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.

Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

by Fogelman, Eva (1994); Published by New York: Doubleday

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

Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

by Nicholas, Lynn H (2005); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf

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

Dancing on a Powder Keg: The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in The Lengthening Shadow of Hitler’s Third Reich, Her Poems from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

by Weber, Ilse (2017); Published by Bunim & Bannigan Ltd. in association with Yad Vashem

Ilse’s letters, written from 1933 to 1944, serve not just as an autobiography, but as a timeline of catastrophic events. Most of the letters are written to her Swedish friend, Lilian von Lowenadler, Lilian’s mother, Gertrude, and to her dear son, Hanus. Hanus was placed on a Sir Nicholas Winton transport to England and was then taken to Sweden by Lilian.

Dark Clouds Don’t Stay Forever: Memoirs of a Jewish German Boy in the 1930s and 1940s

by Neuburger, Werner (2006); Published by Maryland: PublishAmerica

Neuburger recounts growing up in Germany, his relocation in England as part of the Kindertransport, his emigration to the United States and military service during World War II, and his life after the war. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center

Das Exil der kleinen Leute. Alltagserfahrung deutscher Juden in der Emigration

by Benz, Wolfgang, ed (1994); Published by Fischer-TB.-Vlg

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

Der Jüdische Kindertransport von Deutschland nach England 1938/39

by Göpfert, Rebekka (1999); Published by Frankfurt: Campus

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

Der olle Hitler soll sterben!: Erinnerungen an den jüdischen Kindertransport nach England

by Salewsky, Anja (2001); Published by Munich: Claassen

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

Die Kindertransport 1938/39. Rettung und Integration

by Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds. (2003); Published by Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

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