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BBC History OnLine
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By typing "Kindertransport" in the search field, you will access all programs relating to the Kindertransport aired on BBC television, radio and websites.
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British Library Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
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These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. The interviews were selected from a much larger oral history project, the Living Memory of the Jewish Community, which recorded testimony between 1988-2000. The project was developed with the specialist advice of leading Jewish historians and complements a number of collections held by the Sound Archive on Jewish life in Britain.
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Holocaust Memorial Center
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Located in Michigan, the Holocaust Memorial Center's collection includes the three Kindertransport Memory Quilts, made with memorial squares contributed by members of the Kindertransport Association.
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Kindertransport: Britain's rescue plan
Kaczmarska, Ela. National Archives, February 26, 2010, Washington DC.
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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.
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Leo Baeck Institute
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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.
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Quakers in Britain: Kindertransport
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Read stories of Kindertransportees helped by Quakers here.
Quakers were involved at all stages in the Kindertransport. In London they joined with Jewish delegates in persuading the government to relax immigration requirements, making it easier to evacuate people from Nazi Europe. Quakers accompanied children on the long journey to safety and many families and Quaker schools provided homes.
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Teaching "The Children of Willesden Lane"
Website | Facing History and Ourselves
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
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The Kindertransports
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This personal page, part of an online history of Jews in Hamburg, focuses on the story of Kind Paul M. Cohn.
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Wiener Library
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Located in London is the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution. They have a large collection of Kindertransport materials.
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