by Ney, Peter (2009); Published by iUniverse, Incorporated
Two nights before his 7th birthday, Peter Ney and his family were awakened by the sound of yelling and of breaking glass as their home was vandalized. Two months later, Peter was granted safe refuge in England via the Kindertransport. Spanning seventy years, Getting Here tells of Peter’s journey from Germany through his tenure as a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals. The book not only describes his journey, but rejoices in the fulfilling of the American dream—from a seat on a refugee train to a seat on the appellate bench.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/getting-here-from-a-seat-on-a-train-to-a-seat-on-the-bench-peter-ney/d2365a03af347779?aid=56539&ean=9781440171383&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby Kollisch, Eva (2001); Published by Thetford, Vermont: Glad Day Books
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center
by Watts, Irene N (2008); Published by Tundra Books
As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding. No longer allowed to go to school or even sit in a café, Marianne’s only comfort is her beloved mother. Things are bad, but could they get even worse? Based on true events, this fictional account of hatred and racism speaks volumes about both history and human nature.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/good-bye-marianne-a-story-of-growing-up-in-nazi-germany-irene-n-watts/f074e50791fd2fa6?aid=56539&ean=9780887768309&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby Segal, Lore (1985); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love affair–one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/her-first-american-lore-segal/bf4bfe138916ba1b?aid=56539&ean=9781565849495&listref=kindertransport-fiction&next=tby Anderson, Mark M., ed. (1998); Published by New York: New Press
Hitler’s Exiles is a panoramic, first-person account of the flight from Hitler’s Germany to America. From forgotten archives and obscure published sources, Hitler’s Exiles brings to life the unknown voices of that harrowing time by focusing on the ordinary people who underwent a most extraordinary voyage. Also included are little-known writings by such major figures as Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. Hitler’s Exiles is at once a moving human account and a new classic of the literature of exile.
by Rosenzweig, Laura B (2017); Published by New York University Press
Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s
https://bookshop.org/p/books/hollywood-s-spies-the-undercover-surveillance-of-nazis-in-los-angeles-laura-b-rosenzweig/e844eeeb29f34e86?aid=56539&ean=9781479855179&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Laura B. Rosenzweig (September 19, 2017); Published by New York University Press
The book explores how Jewish studio moguls in 1930s Hollywood organized the first anti‑Nazi resistance group in the United States. It traces their covert surveillance of Nazi activity in Los Angeles, showing how the film industry became an unexpected front line against fascism. Through archival research, it reveals the political risks these figures took and how their efforts shaped early American awareness of the Nazi threat.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/hollywood-s-spies-the-undercover-surveillance-of-nazis-in-los-angeles-laura-b-rosenzweig/e844eeeb29f34e86?ean=9781479855179&next=t&aid=56539&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-inby Chitra Ramaswamy (2022); Published by Canongate Books
This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution.
This is a story of migration, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. It is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/homelands-the-history-of-a-friendship-chitra-ramaswamy/18334662?ean=9781838852665&next=t&next=tby Auerbacher, Inge (1993); Published by New York: Puffin Books
Inge Auerbacher’s childhood was as happy and peaceful as that of any other German child—until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge’s family was Jewish, she and her parents with sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family’s harrowing story—and how they carried with them ever after the strength and courage of will that allowed them to survive.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-am-a-star-child-of-the-holocaust-inge-auerbacher/e6e2adce21b95226?aid=56539&ean=9780140364019&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby 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
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
by Borger, Julian (2025); Published by Other Press
This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. 83 years later, Guardian journalist Julian Borger comes across the ad that saved his father, Robert, from the Nazis. Robert had kept this a secret, like almost everything else about his traumatic Viennese childhood, until he took his own life.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-julian-borger/ea0490f59bd82a78?aid=56539&ean=9781635424287&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby 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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/one-life-the-true-story-of-sir-nicholas-winton-and-the-prague-kindertransport-barbara-winton/113b63093aa3c16b?aid=56539&ean=9781639367405&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/kindertransport-olga-levy-drucker/3967133d218a25b8?aid=56539&ean=9780805042511&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby 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.