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
by Sís, Peter (2021); Published by W.W. Norton & Company
In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter Sís dramatizes Winton’s story in this distinctive and deeply personal picture book. He intertwines Nicky’s efforts with the story of one of the children he saved–a young girl named Vera, whose family enlisted Nicky’s aid when the Germans occupied their country. As the war passes and Vera grows up, she must find balance in her dual identities–one her birthright, the other her choice.
by Korman, Gerd (2005); Published by University of Wisconsin Press
Korman movingly recounts his childhood years as a refugee in war-ravaged Europe…. The young adult who emerged was a collage of disjointed personas: an American Jew eager to embrace his new home, an immigrant who never shed the traces of his foreign accent, and a historian eager to tell the story that defines him, his family, and his people.—Publishers Weekly The Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp just before WWII. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated St. Louis; the mother left for the United States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport.
by Bowers, Klaus D. (2005); Published by Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse
Kind Klaus D. Bowers recounts his comfortable early childhood in Germany, the tough transition to refugee life in England, his outstanding academic career at Oxford, and his thirty-three years with AT&T’s Bell Labs during its glory days.
by Avrays, Harry (1989); Published by Sharon Press
Harry Avray’s Kindertransport memoir. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Bukiet, Melvin Jules (2003); Published by New York: W. W. Norton
by Ramler, Sigfried (2009); Published by Ahuna Press
The book begins with Sig’s childhood in Vienna and follows him at age 14 on the Kindertransport to London, where he experienced the Blitz as well as V-1 and V-2 rocket attacks. After the war, his facility with languages brought him to one of the defining moments of his life: the Nuremberg trials. Working in the new field of simultaneous translation, Sig came face to face with the war’s criminals: Göring, Hess, Höss, and Hitler’s architect, Speer. A meeting with a pretty Hawaiian-Chinese court reporter, Piilani Ahuna, led to marriage and a journey to Hawaii. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Schulhof Rybeck, Erika (2013); Published by Summit Crossroads Press
Erika Schulhof Rybeck tells her story as a tribute to the parents who shielded her from the Nazi horrors swirling around her, horrors that led to their deportation and disappearance. After being a teacher, mother and volunteer, she looks back at age 84 at rare experiences – living in castles and cottages, being sheltered by Catholics, discovering her Jewish heritage, and learning of her illustrious family.
by Segal, Lore (1986); Published by New York: Ballantine Books
A fictionalized account of Lore Groszmann Segal’s young life in Austria, England and the Dominican Republic.
by Smith, Stephen D. (1999); Published by Kirton, England: Paintbrush Publications
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Wyman, David S. (1985); Published by New York: Pantheon Books
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by Hensley, Jason
Christadelphians, the Kindertransport, and Rescue from the Holocaust “Part of the Family” is a book and video project attempting to catalogue the lives and experiences of Jewish refugees who lived with Christadelphians during the 1930s and 1940s. To that end, if readers know of anyone who could possibly be included in a future volume, please contact us.
by Heims, Steve J., ed. (1987); Published by US distributor: Marianne Phiebig
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.