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.
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.
by Mimi Ormond (2016)
Mimi Schleissner was only twelve years old when the Nazis invaded the Sudentenland, and she was forced to leave her home and family through the Kindertransport child rescue effort. A memoir.
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.”
by Sieber, Vivien (2023); Published by I2i Publishing
Kino and Kinder: A Family’s Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the story of a European Jewish family’s struggle to survive in the face of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust. The terrible history of twentieth-century genocide is told through the lives and writings of the survivors and is illustrated by evocative historic photographs.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/kino-and-kinder-a-family-s-journey-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-vivien-sieber/6dfc1c632335922e?aid=56539&ean=9781914933172&listref=kindertransport-history&next=tby Clare, George (1982); Published by New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
On February 26, 1938, 17-year-old Georg Klaar took his girlfriend Lisl to his first ball at the Konzerthaus. His family was proudly Austrian; they were also Jewish, and two weeks later came the German Anschluss. This incredibly affecting account of Nazi brutality towards the Jews includes a previously unpublished post-war letter from the author’s uncle to a friend who had escaped to Scotland. This moving epistle passes on the news of those who had survived and the many who had been arrested, deported, murdered, or left to die in concentration camps, and those who had been orphaned or lost their partners or children. It forms a devastating epilogue to what has been hailed as a classic of holocaust literature.
by Brookner, Anita (1989); Published by New York: Pantheon Books
A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of living.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/latecomers-anita-brookner/5bd4c83921e8f2a0?aid=56539&ean=9780679726685&listref=kindertransport-fiction&next=tby 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.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/learning-to-die-in-miami-confessions-of-a-refugee-boy-carlos-eire/4fd63706a30e45f5?aid=56539&ean=9781439181911&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby Laxova, Renata (2001); Published by Cincinnati, OH: Custom Editorial Productions
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Roth, Milena (2004); Published by Seattle: University of Washington Press
In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving parents and taken to safety by what came to be know as the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from the Holocaust and placed them with guardians in England. When she boarded the train in Prague, expecting to be reunited soon with her parents, Milena was aware of the danger and terror that surrounded her: “I knew I would die if I didn’t go.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/lifesaving-letters-a-child-s-flight-from-the-holocaust-milena-roth/3d4e87f4c8b33286?aid=56539&ean=9780295999043&listref=kindertransport-memoir&next=tby 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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/lily-ren-e-escape-artist-from-holocaust-survivor-to-comic-book-pioneer-trina-robbins/6c10ce077c6de005?aid=56539&ean=9780761381143&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby 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.
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 Debra Green (2024); Published by Denouement Press
A novel written by KT2 Debra Green.
There are the families we are born into and the families we choose.
Suburbia—the quintessential quagmire of coexistence. Strangers of varied ethnicities and financial statuses meet at the local gas station, supermarket, and café and speak in snippets of feigned and genuine cordiality. People with whom we rarely envision sharing anything more of ourselves … until we do.
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.