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Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land

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.

Postcards to a Little Boy. A Kindertransport Story

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.

Reconstructing the Past: Refugee Writings on the Kindertransport

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.

Remember Me A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain

by Watts, Irene N (2000); Published by Tundra Books

Young Marianne 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. In this companion to Good-bye Marianne, Irene N. Watts has created a memorable character, and a story that is ultimately about hope, not war.

Remembering Refugees: Then and Now

by 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.

Rescue Operation for Jewish Children from Nazi Germany. the Kindertransporte of 1938-1939

by Muller-Knospe, Bernd (2017); Published by Grin Publishing

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport

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.

Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Autobiographies

by 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.

Rettet wenigstens die Kinder Kindertransporte aus Frankfurt am Main – Lebenswege von geretteten Kindern

by 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.

Rosa’s Child, The True Story of One Woman’s Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past

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.

Rosa’s Child, The True Story of One Woman’s Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past

by Bechhofer, Susie and Jeremy Josephs (1996); Published by London: I.B. Tauris

Runaway Waltz, A Memoir from Vienna to New York

by Morton, Frederic (2010); Published by Simon and Schuster

One of the most revered essayists and novelists of his generation, Frederic Morton has captured with matchless immediacy the glamour of Vienna before World War I in his bestselling and award-winning works. Now, in his first book in more than fifteen years, he delivers a luminous look at his own unique pursuit of the American dream. Like many Austrian boys in 1936, the author idolizes Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire. When his family is forced to flee Vienna, Fritz Mandelbaum becomes Fred Morton and immigrates to New York City. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Salt of the Earth: An intergenerational journey of a family’s life, heartbreak and triumph before, during and after the Holocaust

by Pfeffer Vignola, Janet & Pfeffer Pfaff, Margaret; Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An intergenerational journey of a family’s life, heartbreak and triumph before, during and after the Holocaust. Written by two KT2s.

Saving Hanno: The Story of a Refugee Dog

by Halahmy, Miriam (2019); Published by Holiday House

What if you had to leave your dog behind when you fled? Nine-year-old Rudi has a chance to leave the dangers of Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England. However, he cannot bring Hanno, his dachshund. Luckily, his family finds a way to smuggle Hanno to London. But with England on the brink of war, Hanno is still not safe.

Searching for Fritzi

by Bergman, Carol (1999); Published by New York: Mediacs

This memoir traces the journey of three American women – a Jewish Holocaust survivor, her daughter, and her granddaughter – in search of their family’s history. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Selected Poems

by Gershon, Karen (1966); Published by New York: Harcourt Brace and World

Poetry by a Kind who left Germany at the age of 15. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Stories

by Segal, Lore (2007); Published by New Press

What began as seven interrelated short stories published in The New Yorker is now a full-length collection of thirteen stories featuring Austrian Kind Ilka Weisz, who accepts a position at a think tank called the Concordance Institute, and her struggle to form a new family out of friends and coworkers. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.

Shedding Skins

by Wolff, Marion (2004); Published by San Luis Obispo, California: Central Coast Press

Through short memoirs, essays, and poetry, “Marion Wolff takes us through her fascinating life from childhood in Nazi Germany to the crazy, complicated life of retirement” (cover of book).

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Shefford: The Story of a Jewish School Community in Evacuation 1939-1945

by Grunfeld, Judith (1980); Published by London: Soncino Press

May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

by Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds (Fall 2004); Published by Kindertransporte 1938/39 - Rescue and Integration. Special Issue 23, no. 1

This entire issue is dedicated to “Kindertransporte 1938/39 – Rescue and Integration”. The table of contents is available here. Online access to the articles requires a login account to Project MUSE.