by Figes, Eva (1988); Published by New York: Persea Books
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Wolfenden, Barbara (2008); Published by Praeger
As Europe prepared for war, the newly-founded Stoatley Rough School began to shelter hundreds of traumatized Jewish children fleeing (usually alone) from Nazi persecution. Little Holocaust Survivors, based on dozens of original interviews, tells their stories, and the stories of the teachers and benefactors who created this refuge in a country house on a hillside in Surrey, donated by its philanthropic owner. Author Barbara Wolfenden (wife of one of the boys educated at Stoatley Rough) has interviewed many of the children (both ‘Hut Boys’ and ‘Household Girls’) from the school. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Voorhoeve, Anne C (2008); Published by Ravensburger Verlag
Contained within the story of ten-year-old Ziska (Franziska Mangold) is a whole slice of prewar and wartime history, from Kristallnacht to Auschwitz, from the Kindertransport taking Jewish children to safety in England (hence the title ‘Liverpool Street’) to the varied fortunes of the young refugees, and from wartime sacrifices to deportations to the Isle of Man. This moving novel portrays the growing up of a young girl amongst scenes of great tragedy. Currently available in German only, translations will soon be released: USA (Penguin); France; Netherlands. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Steinitz, Lucy and David Szonyi, eds. (1976); Published by New York: Bloch Publishing
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Moskovitz, Sarah (1983); Published by New York: Schocken Books
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Martin, Margaret (2010); Published by D R Green
Gerard Gould is a teacher and director of amateur drama with a uniquely charismatic personality, and those gifts are rare enough to merit attention; but the life of the man behind the work is truly fascinating. He was born Günter Goldstein in Germany in 1922, the youngest child of a prosperous Jewish family. He was a witness (and a perceptive, profoundly intelligent witness) to the gathering horror that was Nazi Germany. He came to England on a Kindertransport.
by Brookner, Anita (2002); Published by New York: Random House
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Gold, Michele (2014); Published by Kotarim International Publishing, Ltd
Memories That Won’t Go Away tells the stories of hundreds of these kinder. Their experiences as strangers in a strange land were often complicated and painful, but as this book illustrates, the rescued children – and their many thousands of descendants – remain grateful to the nation that saved them.
by Gottlieb, Amy (1998); Published by London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Metzger, Lois (1999); Published by New York: Penguin USA Viking Childrens Books
Lois Metzger’s young adult novel features a young main character whose mother was on a Kindertransport.
by Behrendt, Gideon and Claudia Curio (2001); Published by Frankfurt: Fischer
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Rowe Fraustino, Lisa and Coats, Karen, Editors (2016); Published by University Press of Mississippi
Chapter 4: The Women Who Sent Their Children Away: Mothers in Kindertransport Fiction. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Jacoby, Ingrid (2009); Published by Cornwall, UK: United Writers Publications Ltd
In her third diary we follow Ingrid Jacoby’s life from the age of 23 to 26 years. Still in Oxford and now working for Rosenthals’ Antiquarian Booksellers, Ingrid remembers, at the age of 12, being transported via Kindertransport from Vienna to Falmouth with her sister Lieselotte, discovering that her mother was lost forever after dying in a German concentration camp and subsequently being unable to properly find a close relationship with her father and his new wife. Eventually Ingrid meets Stan, and as the pages come to a close we know that her heart and life have become secure. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Voorhoeve, Anne (2012); Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Press
At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents, Frances (as she is now known) courageously pieces together a new life for herself because she doesn’t know when or if she’ll see her true family again. Against the backdrop of war-torn London, Frances struggles with questions of identity, family, and love. Originally published in Germany. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
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 Fox, Anne (1996); Published by Edgware, England: Vallentine Michell
Anne Fox’s Kindertransport memoir.
by Backer, Ivan (2016); Published by Skyhorse
The breathtaking memoir by a member of “Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer. Now an eighty-six-year-old who remains an activist for peace and justice. He has been influenced by his Jewish heritage, his Christian boarding school education in England, and the always present question “For what purpose was I spared the Holocaust?”.
by Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Judith (2012); Published by Purdue University Press
This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children. Based on archival sources and follow-up interviews with refugee children both forty and seventy years after their flight to Britain, this book gives a unique perspective into the political, bureaucratic, and human aspects of the Kindertransport scheme prior to and during World War II.
by Rabinowitz, Dorothy (1976); Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Emmanuel, Muriel and Vera Gissing (1982); Published by Edgware, England: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers