Books

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Hitler’s Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America

by Anderson, Mark M., ed. (1998); Published by New York: New Press

I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust

by Auerbacher, Inge (1993); Published by New York: Puffin Books

I Came Alone

by Leverton, Bertha and Shmuel Lowensohn (1990); Published by Sussex, England: Book Guild

The founder of the Reunion of Kindertransport in London put together this collection of writings by Kinder. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center

I Didn’t Say Goodbye

by Vegh, Claudine (1984); Published by New York: E.P. Dutton

Interviews with children of the Holocaust. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center

If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton

by Winton, Barbara (2014); Published by Troubador Publishing Ltd

Barbara Winton’s biography of her father. There are around 6000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton. They are the descendants of a group of refugee children rescued by him from the Nazi threat in 1939. Some of them know of his existence and the part he played in their history, many others do not.

In My Pocket

by Sim, Dorrith M. (1996); Published by New York: Harcourt Brace & Company

This book is suitable for very young children. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Interrupted Journeys, Young Refugees from Hitler’s Reich

by Gill, Alan (2005); Published by Pymble, NSW: Simon & Schuster Australia

Stories of Kindertransport and other young refugees who wound up in Australia. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Into the Arms of Strangers

by Oppenheimer, Deborah and Mark Jonathan Harris (2000); Published by London: Bloomsbury

The companion book to the film. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Jews in North Devon During the Second World War: The Escape from Nazi Germany and the Establishment of the Pioneer Corps.

by Fry, Helen P. (2005); Published by Tiverton, England: Halsgrove

This book details the training of some 90 young Jewish refugees – some of whom were Kinder – for immigration to Palestine. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

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.

Kindertransport

by Drucker, Olga Levy (1995); Published by New York: Henry Holt

Olga Levy Drucker’s Kindertransport memoir, covering her six years in England and reunion with her parents in 1945. Written for ages 9 – 15.

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: 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: 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.”

Last Waltz in Vienna: The Rise and Destruction of a Family: 1842-1942

by Clare, George (1982); Published by New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

by Eire, Carlos (2010); Published by Free Press

With the same passionate immediacy as Eire brought to his memoir of a Cuban boyhood, the National Book Award–winning Waiting for Snow in Havana (2002), he writes now about coming to America at age 11. The story takes readers from the journey to American itself – Eire was one of 14,000 unaccompanied refugee children in 1962’s Operation Pedro Pan – through his time in foster homes, both kind and harsh, and eventually to joining his uncle in Chicago, “where everyone came from somewhere else.”

Letter to Alexander: A Family’s Kindertransport Experience

by Laxova, Renata (2001); Published by Cincinnati, OH: Custom Editorial Productions

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

Lifesaving Letters: A Child’s Flight from the Holocaust

by Roth, Milena (2004); Published by Seattle: University of Washington Press

Lily Renée, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer

by Robbins, Trina (2011); Published by Lerner Publishing Group

In 1938, Lily Renée Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily’s life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. In this graphic novel for readers 10-14, follow the story of a brave girl who becomes an artist of heroes and a true pioneer in comic books.

Literatur und Holocaust

by Bayer, Gerd and Freiburg, Rudolf (2009); Published by Koenigshausen & Neumann

The chapter “Die Erfahrung des Kindertransports in der Englischen Literatur,” by Christoph Houswitschka, pages 76-97, may be of interest. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.