by Bukiet, Melvin Jules (2003); Published by New York: W. W. Norton
History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation.
“Nothing Makes You Free” considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of many German concentration camps: “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes You Free”).
https://bookshop.org/p/books/nothing-makes-you-free-writings-by-descendants-of-jewish-holocaust-survivors-melvin-jules-bukiet/7f18302984cdd8a2?aid=56539&ean=9780393324259&listref=second-and-third-generations&next=tby 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 Katz, Fred Emil (1993); Published by State University of New York Press
What is it in the behavioral makeup of ordinary people, operating in the course of ordinary daily living, that lends itself to participating in horrendous activities – and doing so at times with zeal, at times with joy, at times without duress? Katz demonstrates that we do not need any special behavioral equipment for doing evil. The very same behaviors can take us in both directions for either living humanely and decently or for doing evil. This book demonstrates how some of these processes work, and sensitizes us to the potential for evil in our ongoing daily activities. This knowledge about ordinary behavior can empower us to take charge of our own direction, and help us turn away from beguilings of evil when they come our way.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/ordinary-people-and-extraordinary-evil-a-report-on-the-beguilings-of-evil-fred-emil-katz/9201c875aef58138?aid=56539&ean=9780791414422&listref=if-you-are-interested-in-the-kindertransports-you-might-be-interested-in&next=tby 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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/other-people-s-houses-lore-segal/c4eb4cb025227e18?aid=56539&ean=9781565849501&listref=kindertransport-fiction&next=tby 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
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Hensley, Jason (2016)
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.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/part-of-the-family-christadelphians-the-kindertransport-and-rescue-from-the-holocaust/9d9f1fe18abd2d5f?ean=9781532740534&next=t&next=tby Heims, Steve J., ed. (1987); Published by US distributor: Marianne Phiebig
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Gissing, Vera (1988); Published by New York: St. Martin's Press
Vera Gissing’s account of her life in Prague and in England, where she was one of the Kinder. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Foner, Henry (2013); Published by Yad Vashem Publications
Henry Foner (Heinz Lichtwitz), who had lost his mother at a young age, was sent from Berlin to Wales and lived there with a Jewish couple, who provided him with a warm, loving home. From the moment they parted, Henry’s father sent him colorful illustrated postcards written in German and later on in English. This authentic and moving document presents the postcards and letters that Henry received from his father and other relatives and friends, along with their translation. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Sharples, Carolyn (2006); Published by Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
This article analyses the memoirs of the former refugees themselves and sets out the case for re-examining popular representations of the scheme, addressing the diversity of experience for the children once in England, the hardships and emotional upheaval encountered during this stage of their young lives and looking at some of the limitations of the Kindertransport itself. Volume 12, Number 3, pp. 40-62 May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Watts, Irene N (2000); Published by Tundra Books
Young Marianne is one of the lucky ones. She has escaped on one of the first kindertransporte organized to take Jewish children out of Germany to safety in Britain.
At first Marianne is desperate. She does not speak English, she is not welcome in her sponsors’ home, and, most of all, she misses her mother terribly. As the months pass, she realizes that she cannot control the circumstances around her. She must rely on herself if she is to survive.
In this exciting companion to Good-bye Marianne, Irene N. Watts has created a memorable character, and a story that is ultimately about hope, not war. Based on true events, this fictional account of hatred and racism speaks volumes about history and human nature.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/remember-me-a-search-for-refuge-in-wartime-britain-irene-n-watts/83beb71dfef8d9b6?aid=56539&ean=9780887765193&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby Kushner, Tony (2006); Published by Manchester University Press
Chapter 4 deals specifically with the Kindertransports. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.
by Muller-Knospe, Bernd (2017); Published by Grin Publishing
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by Hodge, Deborah (2012); Published by Tundra Books
This book, for children aged 10 and older, includes a compilation of accounts of Kindertransport children and is illustrated with archival photographs, paintings by artist Hans Jackson, and quilt squares created by the Kinder commemorating their rescue.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/rescuing-the-children-the-story-of-the-kindertransport-deborah-hodge/06cf870d777cbf15?aid=56539&ean=9781770492561&listref=kindertransport-for-young-readers&next=tby Shmuel Refael (Editor), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (Editor) (2021); Published by Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
This book is composed of over 30 chapters written by prominent researchers worldwide who belong to the “Second Generation” and “Third Generation” of Holocaust offspring.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/researchers-remember-research-as-an-arena-of-memory-among-descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-a-collected-volume-of-academic-autobiographies-judith-tydor-baumel-schwartz/17407166?ean=9783034341547&next=t&next=tby Rieber, Angelika and Lieberz-Gross, Till (2019); Published by Fachhochschulverlag
Seven authors have collaborated with the project Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main to research and compile biographies of children transport children. These life stories vividly show how the National Socialist policies affect life of the children and how the forced escape from Germany and the most final Separation of relatives shaped their lives.
by Nadler, Stuart (2025); Published by Dutton
A prismatic mind-bending epic about the splintering of a family into different worlds
Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate rooms, within their separate lives, but I would not be able to cross over to meet them. In Rooms for Vanishing, the violence of war has fractured the universe for the Altermans, a Jewish family from Vienna. Moving across decades, and across the world, the novel finds the Altermans alone in their separate futures, haunted by the loss of their loved ones, each certain that they are the sole survivor of their family.
by Bechhofer, Susie and Jeremy Josephs (1996); Published by London: I.B. Tauris
May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.