(2024)
The brochure presents the exhibition I said Auf Wiedersehen, which focuses on Kindertransport history through personal stories, photographs, documents, and objects. It introduces the historical background of the Kindertransport, highlights individual biographies, and explains how the exhibition connects themes of displacement, separation, and survival. The brochure also outlines the exhibition’s educational goals and provides visual impressions of the displays.
by Camis, Ilse and Molly (2015); Published by StoryCorps
Kindertransport survivor Ilse Camis speaks with daughter Molly Camis at the 2015 Kindertransport Association conference.
This museum in London has a collection of documents relating to the Kindertransport.
by Berman, Kathryn (2012); Published by Yad Vashem
My family had wanted to leave Germany together, but unfortunately we could not get a family visa. My parents wanted to leave Germany for Palestine. My mother was a Zionist, but they didn’t have enough money to leave… By saving her family, my mother ensured the continuation of her family. Only my parents were left in Berlin. In October 1942, they were sent to Theresienstadt, where my father perished in 1943.
by Simon, Bob (2014); Published by 60 Minutes, CBS News
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 60 Minutes looks back at Bob Simon’s 2014 profile of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis. Video and transcript.
by Hasten, Josh (2020); Published by Sound Cloud, The Land of Israel Network
In the age of Corona, this year’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day in Israel will be commemorated at home through technology. To discuss this reality and to share his story of survival with Josh Hasten, is Walter Bingham, who at 96, is the world’s oldest radio talk-show host. Hear how he survived Kristallnacht as a young teen, and was fortunate to make it to England on a Kindertransport. Bingham eventually made Aliyah where he continues to this day, his career in journalism. Don’t miss the interview with Bingham – a truly inspiring Jewish treasure and hero.
by White, Jack (2017)
This website includes articles on various aspects of Kindertransport history, and links to many short videos.
A list of links compiled by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
(2008)
A collection of personal reminiscences and tributes from people who were rescued on the Kindertransport, collected by the Quakers in Great Britain in 2008.
by Hacker, Grosz, Kollisch
A selection of the interviews conducted by the KTA Oral History Project. Interviewers were all KT2. Interviews done at reunions in the early 1990’s. Placed online by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Interviews and transcripts are also at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan & the Wienner Library, London.
by Robert Sugar
Exhibition by Robert Sugar Showings include:
In 1933 Meeting for Sufferings (the executive body of the Society of Friends) set up the Germany Emergency Committee (GEC), later renamed the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA), in response to anti-Jewish laws of the new Nazi regime. This is a list of Kindertransport research resources.
by Association of Jewish Refugees (2022)
The AJR Kindertransport Survey, titled Making New Lives in Britain, is a large-scale study conducted in 2007 that collected detailed information from Kindertransport refugees about their backgrounds, journeys to Britain, reception, and later lives. It gathered over 1,000 completed questionnaires, plus supplementary forms, creating the only comprehensive statistical database on the experiences of the nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children rescued by the Kindertransport. The enhanced 2022 version includes respondents’ written notes, offering additional personal context and insights.
Published by British National Archives
A collection of Kindertransport related documents, downloadable for classroom use.
by Kaczmarska, Ela (2010); Published by National Archives
The Wiener Library holds many personal accounts of children evacuated from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia between December 1938 and September 1939. Using individual first-hand accounts sourced from The Wiener Library and documents held at The National Archives, this talk gives insights into how Britain dealt with the refugee children who arrived on the Kindertransports and the difficulties they faced.
by The Association of Jewish Refugees (2019)
This documentary podcast uses first‑hand testimony from the AJR’s Refugee Voices archive to explore the Kindertransport in depth. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of the children’s experiences—such as the journey, separation from parents, arrival in Britain, and long‑term impact—using survivors’ own words to illuminate the emotional and historical complexity of the rescue operation. It aims to deepen understanding of the Kindertransport by combining historical context with personal stories.
by Lissner, Cordula, Reuter, Ursula, Stellmacher, Adrian (2016); Published by Kindertransport Project Group of the Yavneh Memorial and Educational Centre
The Project ‘Kindertransports from North Rhine-Westphalia’ had the aim of putting together the full story of the Kindertransport from the Rhineland and Westphalia, about which up until now only fragments had been known, and making the results available to the memorial centres in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, especially their educational departments.
by Weissenberg, Clare (2017)
The aim of this website is to gather together Kitchener camp documents, letters, photographs, and histories. We hope to create a better understanding: of how the Kitchener men escaped from Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in 1939 of what their lives and routines were like in Kitchener camp and of what they went on to do when the camp closed down.
The Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. This research, exhibition, and lecture institute has significant archival materials on the Kindertransport.
(2019) Published by Leo Baeck Institute
In honor of their exhibit “Kindertransport: Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” Leo Baeck put some of their Kindertransport related documents online.