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Tante Truus ist hier!

by Spaans, Leen (2018); Published by Committee Statue for Truus Historical Society Alkmaar

The statue for Truus Wijsmuller is finished and is worthy in Alkmaar for placement and unveiling, that is to say: when the corona crisis is over. In principle, Tuesday, April 21, 2020 would have been the day of the unveiling. With a reception in the Grote Kerk, guests from home and abroad, some surviving children from 1938-1940, the sculptors Annet Terberg-Pompe and Lea Wijnhoven, and many others.

Teaching “The Children of Willesden Lane”

Online resource for secondary school teachers. Includes classroom videos; a documentary profile of the author, pianist Mona Golabek; and a special performance where Mona retells her mother’s story, weaving in the piano music from the book. The website complements the book’s curriculum guide, created by Facing History and Ourselves.

The Boy Alone in Nazi Vienna

(2018) Published by The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

A cache of 40 letters discovered recently in a UK loft and digitized for The Wiener Library archive, documents the prelude to this more unusual experience from a child’s perspective. The letters were written by a boy in Vienna to his mother, who was already in the UK, over the course of an agonizing four-month separation. During this time each worked frantically towards a reunion that they could not be certain would happen as war clouds gathered. May be out of print. Try your local library or Holocaust Memorial Center.

The Ephraims and the Neumeyers

by Locke, Tim (2014)

Perspectives on family stories of Görlitz, Dachau, the Kindertransport and the Holocaust. Tim Locke, whose mother Ruth(nee Ruth Neumeyer) and uncle Raimund escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England, investigates and shares his family history from the 18th century forward.

The Girl Museum- Kindertransport

(2018) Published by Girl Museum

A lovely online resource, showcasing photographs, documents, and videotaped oral histories, with a robust study guide that meets common core educational goals.

The Global Directory of Holocaust Museums

A directory with links to museums throughout the world.

The Historical Association Alkmaar

(2018) Published by de Historische Vereniging Alkmaar

The Historical Association Alkmaar started in 2018 with a campaign to develop and fund a statue for Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer. The municipality of Alkmaar and the Historical Association Alkmaar worked together towards the day of the unveiling: April 21, 2020, the birthday of Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer. Given the coronavirus, this has unfortunately not happened. The Historical Association Alkmaar and the municipality of Alkmaar are currently discussing a new date for the unveiling of the statue. Information can be found on the website Tante Truus is here!

The Home Project

The HOME Project provides a network of child protection services to unaccompanied children in Greece whose families and lives have been effected by war and persecution.

The Millisle Farm in Co Down

Published by Down County Museum

Jewish children, who escaped on Kindertransports, and other refugees from Nazi terror found refuge in a remote farm on the Ards peninsula in the late 1930s. The Belfast Jewish community had leased the farm to provide a home and living for these refugees. In Millisle and Donaghadee the local communities, including Millisle Primary School, proved to be firm friends of the farm, providing help with whatever was needed.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Use this website’s search function to explore the museum’s many Kindertransport-related resources.

Wiener Library

Located in London is the world’s oldest Holocaust memorial institution. They have a large collection of Kindertransport materials.

World on The Move Exhibit

Published by Lester Public Library

A Kindertransport panel is part of the exhibit “World on the move“ at the Lester Public Library.