kindertransport resources
Avrays, Harry.
Not With Silver Spoon.
Sharon Press, 1989.
Harry Avray's Kindertransport memoir.
Bader, Alfred.
Adventures of a Chemist Collector.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995.
Baram, Myra.
The Girl with Two Suitcases. Sussex,
England: The Book Guild, 1988.
Kind Myra Baram tells the story of her
life from Berlin to Nethanya, Israel.
Blend, Martha.
A Child Alone.
Edgware, England: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 1996).
Bowers, Klaus D.
Non Frangimur: My First Six Decades.
Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2005).
Kind Klaus D. Bowers recounts his comfortable early childhood in Germany, the tough transition to refugee life in England, his outstanding academic career at Oxford, and his thirty-three years with AT&T's Bell Labs during its glory days.
Darvas, Miriam.
Farewell to Prague.
San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2001.
David, Ruth L.
Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight From
the Holocaust. London: I.B. Tauris,
2002.
Eden, Thea, Irene Reti
and Valerie Jean Chase. A Transported
Life: Memories of Kindertransport.
Santa Cruz, California: Herbooks, 1995.
Figes, Eva.
Little Eden. New York: Persea Books,
1988.
Fox, Anne.
My Heart in a Suitcase. Edgware, England:
Vallentine Michell, 1996.
Anne Fox's Kindertransport memoir.
Gershon, Karen.
A Lesser Child.
Karen Gershon. London: Peter Owen Publishers, 1993.
An account, from the point of view of an adolescent
girl, of life in Germany in the years leading up to her departure on
the Kindertransport.
Gissing, Vera.
Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime
Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
Vera Gissing's account of her life in Prague
and in England, where she was one of the Kinder.
Hamlet, Eva.
Against All Odds. Citra, Florida: Crones'
Cradle Conserve, 1994.
Hannam, Charles.
A Boy in Your Situation.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1977.
Charles Hannam's Kindertransport memoir.
Hannam, Charles.
Almost an Englishman.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1978.
Kollisch, Eva.
Girl in Movement: A Memoir.
Thetford, Vermont: Glad Day Books, 2001.
Laxova, Renata.
Letter to Alexander: A Family's Kindertransport
Experience. Cincinnati, OH: Custom
Editorial Productions, 2001.
Lieberman, J. Nina.
The Salzburg Connection: An Adolescence Remembered.
New York: Vantage Press, 2004.
Roth, Milena.
Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.
Milton, Edith.
The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport
and Growing Up English. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2005.
Neuburger, Werner.
Dark Clouds Don't Stay Forever: Memoirs of a Jewish German Boy in the 1930s and 1940s. Maryland: PublishAmerica, 2006.
Neuburger recounts growing up in Germany, his relocation in England as part of the Kindertransport, his emigration to the United States and military service during World War II, and his life after the war.
Schlesinger, Joe.
Time Zones: A Journalist in the World.
Toronto: Random House Canada, 1990.
Selo, Laura.
Three Lives in Transit. London: Excalibur
Press, 1992.
The autobiographical story of three sisters
who traveled from Prague to London.
Westheimer, Ruth.
All in a Lifetime.
New York: Warner Books, 1988.
"Dr. Ruth" Westheimer's account of her journey
from Frankfurt am Main through a refugee girls hostel in Switzerland,
to Israel, to her broadcasting success in the United States of America.
Wolff, Marion.
Shedding Skins.
San Luis Obispo, California: Central Coast Press, 2004.
Zeller, Frederic.
When Time Ran Out: Coming of Age in the Third
Reich. Sag Harbor, New York: Permanent
Press, 1989.
Frederic Zeller's story of his childhood in
Berlin and escape to Holland, where he joined a Kindertransport.
Zurndorfer, Hannele.
The Ninth of November.
London: Quartet Books, 1983.
Hannele Zurndorfer left Dusseldorf in May 1939
on a children's transport with her younger sister. She ends her story
with the last letter she received from her father.
Anderson, Mark M., ed.
Hitler's Exiles: Personal Stories of
the Flight from Nazi Germany to America.
New York: New Press, 1998.
Baumel, Judith Tydor.
Unfulfilled Promise - Rescue and Resettlement
of Jewish Refugee Children in the United States 1934 - 1935.
Juneau, AK: Denali Press, 1990.
A scholarly book by the author of two theses
on the Kindertransport movement.
Bechhofer, Susie and Jeremy
Josephs. Rosa's Child, The True Story
of One Woman's Quest for a Lost Mother and a Vanished Past.
London: I.B. Tauris, 1996.
Behrendt, Gideon and Claudia
Curio. Mit dem Kindertransport in die
Freiheit. Vom Jüdischen Flü zum Corporal O'Brian.
Frankfurt: Fischer, 2001.
Bentwich, Norman.
They Found Refuge.
London: Cresset Press, 1956.
Norman Bentwich writes of his involvement with
the Kindertransport movement.
Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia
Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds. Die Kindertransport
1938/39. Rettung und Integration Frankfurt:
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003.
Benz, Wolfgang, Claudia
Curio and Andrea Hummel, eds. "Kindertransporte
1938/39 - Rescue and Integration." Special Issue,
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
23, no. 1 (Fall 2004).
This entire issue is dedicated to Kindertransporte
1938/39 - Rescue and Integration. The table of contents is available
at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shofar/toc/sho23.1.html.
Online access to the articles requires a login account to Project
MUSE.
Berth, Christine.
Die Kindertransporte Nach Grossbritannien 1938/39: Exilerfahrungen im Spiegel Lebensgeschichtlicher.
Munich, Germany: Dolling und Galitz, 2005.
Interviews.
Emmanuel, Muriel and Vera
Gissing. Nicholas Winton and the Rescued
Generation. Edgware, England: Vallentine
Mitchell Publishers, 1982.
Fry, Helen P.
Jews in North Devon During the Second World War: The Escape from Nazi
Germany and the Establishment of the Pioneer Corps.
Tiverton, England: Halsgrove, 2005.
This book details the training of some 90 young
Jewish refugees - some of whom were Kinder - for immigration
to Palestine.
Gershon, Karen.
We Came as Children: A Collective Autobiography.
New York: Harcourt Brace and World,
1966.
Gill, Alan.
Interrupted Journeys, Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich.
Pymble, NSW: Simon & Schuster Australia, 2005.
Stories of Kindertransport and other young
refugees who wound up in Australia.
Göpfert, Rebekka.
Der Jüdische Kindertransport von Deutschland
nach England 1938/39. Frankfurt: Campus,
1999.
Grosz, Hanus, Kirsten Grozs
and Anita Grosz. Kindertransport Memory
Quilt. Published by Kirsten Grosz,
7233 Lakeside Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46278.
Beautiful photographs of the quilt panels combined
with the stories behind them. For sales in the UK contact: anita@patrol.i-way.co.uk
Grunfeld, Judith.
Shefford: The Story of a Jewish School Community
in Evacuation 1939-1945. London: Soncino
Press, 1980.
Gottlieb, Amy.
Men of Vision, Anglo-Jewry's Aid to Victims of
the Nazi Regime. London: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson, 1998.
Kranzler, David and Gertrude
Hirschler, eds. Solomon Schonfeld: His
Page in History. New York: Judaica
Press, 1982.
Leverton, Bertha and Shmuel
Lowensohn. I Came Alone.
Sussex, England: Book Guild, 1990.
The founder of the Reunion of Kindertransport
in London put together this collection of writings by Kinder.
Oppenheimer, Deborah and
Mark Jonathan Harris. Into the Arms of
Strangers. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.
The companion book to the film.
Salewsky, Anja.
Der olle Hitler soll sterben!: Erinnerungen an
den jüdischen Kindertransport nach England.
Munich: Claassen, 2001.
Turner, Barry.
And the Policeman Smiled.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991.
A history of the Kindertransport movement.
Wasserstein, Bernard.
Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Whiteman, Dorit Bader.
The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy: Voices
of Those Who Escaped Before the "Final Solution."
New York: Insight Books, 1993.
Dorit Bader Whiteman has woven together the
stories of 190 escapees, including several who left via the Kindertransports.
Brookner, Anita.
The Latecomers. New York: Pantheon Books,
1989.
Brookner, Anita.
Making Things Better. New York: Random
House, 2002.
Desai, Anita.
Baumgartner's Bombay. London: William
Heinemann, 1987.
Edelman, Gwen.
War Story. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.
Gardam, Jane.
Flight of the Maidens. New York: Carroll
& Graf, 2001.
Paretsky, Sara.
Total Recall.
New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
Phillips, Caryl.
The Nature of Blood.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Sebald, W.G.
Austerlitz. New York: Random House,
2001.
Segal, Lore.
Other People's Houses. New York: Ballantine
Books, 1986.
A fictionalized account of Lore Groszmann Segal's
young life in Austria, England and the Dominican Republic.
Segal, Lore.
Her First American. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1985.
Gershon, Karen.
Selected Poems.
New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1966.
Poetry by a Kind who left Germany at
the age of 15.
Hirschhorn, Norbert.
A Cracked River.
London: Slow Dancer Press, 1999.
Kramer, Lotte.
The Phantom Lane.
Ware, England: The Rockingham Press, 2000.
Abells, Chana Byers.
The Children We Remember.
London: Julia MacRae Books, 1987.
For 4 - 8 year olds, about children during
the Holocaust.
Drucker, Olga Levy.
Kindertransport.
New York: Henry Holt, 1995.
Olga Levy Drucker's Kindertransport memoir,
covering her six years in England and reunion with her parents in 1945.
Written for ages 9 - 15.
Fox, Anne L. and Eva Abraham-Podietz.
Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told
by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport..
Springfield, New Jersey: Behrman House, 1998.
Golabek, Mona and Lee Cohen.
The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond
the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival.
New York: Warner Books, 2003.
Aspiring pianist Lisa Jura was 14 when her
family put her on a Kindertransport train in Vienna. Jura's daughter,
a pianist, traces the six years Jura spent in London, where she found
a surrogate family in the 31 other young refugees at the Willesden Lane
hostel.
Hayman, Eva.
By the Moon and the Stars. Auckland:
Random Century New Zealand, 1992.
Memoir by the sister of Vera Gissing. Appropriate
for teenagers.
Metzger, Lois.
Missing Girls.
New York: Penguin USA Viking Childrens Books, 1999.
Lois Metzger's young adult novel features a
young main character whose mother was on a Kindertransport.
Sim, Dorrith M.
In My Pocket. New York: Harcourt Brace
& Company, 1996.
This book is suitable for very young children.
Smith, Stephen D.
Our Lonely Journey: Remembering the Kindertransport.
Kirton, England: Paintbrush Publications,
1999.
Watts, Irene Kirsten.
Goodbye, Marianne. Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 1995.
This play is aimed at audiences in grades 4 - 6.
BBC 2 Wales.
Holocaust
Day: A Haven in Wales (2005).
This documentary, broadcast on BBC 2 Wales
on Holocaust Day 2005, features the reminiscences of some of the 200
Kindertransport children who found a haven at Gwrych Castle in North
East Wales.
Lichtenstein, Jonathan.
Memory. London: Nick Hern Books Limited, 2006.
A drama involving a Kindertransport family, Memory was first performed at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Wales in November 2006 and subsequently produced at the 59E59 Theaters in New York City in 2007.
Minac, Matej.
All My Loved Ones
(1999).
A feature film that focuses on a family in
dramatizing the story of the Kindertransports from Prague.
Samuels, Diane.
Kindertransport.
New York: Plume, 1995.
This play has been performed worldwide, on
the West End and in community theaters.
"Admission of German Refugee
Children." U.S. Congress, House Committee
on Immigration and Naturalization, 76th Congress, First Session, 1939.
Abish, Walter.
Double Vision, A Self Portrait.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Angress, Werner T.
Between Fear & Hope: Jewish Youth in the Third
Reich. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1988.
Auerbacher, Inge.
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust.
New York: Puffin Books, 1993.
Bergman, Carol.
Searching for Fritzi.
New York: Mediacs, 1999.
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.
Berkley, George E.
Vienna and Its Jews: The Tragedy of Success:
1880s - 1980s. Lanham, Maryland: Madison
Books, 1988.
Bukiet, Melvin Jules.
Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants
of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. New
York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
Clare, George.
Last Waltz in Vienna: The Rise and Destruction
of a Family: 1842-1942. New York: Holt,
Rinehart, and Winston, 1982.
Dwork, Deborah.
Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Eliach, Yaffa.
We Were Children Just Like You.
Brooklyn, NY: Center for Holocaust Studies and Documentation, 1990.
Epstein, Helen.
Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with
Sons and Daughters of Survivors. New
York: Putnam, 1979.
Helen Epstein's pioneering look at the second
generation.
Epstein, Helen.
Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for
Her Mother's History. Boston: Little,
Brown, 1997.
A memoir of the lives of Epstein's mother,
grandmother, and great grandmother.
Fogelman, Eva.
Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During
the Holocaust. New York: Doubleday,
1994.
Gay, Peter.
My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Berlin.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Heifetz, Julie.
Too Young to Remember.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
Julie Heifetz's collection of interviews with
child Holocaust survivors.
Heims, Steve J., ed.
Passages From Berlin: Recollections of Former
Students and Staff of the Goldschmidt Schule.
US distributor: Marianne Phiebig, 1987.
Jason, Philip K. and Iris
Posners, eds. Don't Wave Goodbye: The
Children's Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom.
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2004.
The story of the 1,000 children sent directly
to the United States between 1938 and 1945.
Kaplan, Marion A.
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi
Germany. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Klempner, Mark.
The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and
Their Stories of Courage. Cleveland,
Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2006.
Laquer, Walter.
Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees
from Nazi Germany. Hanover, NH: Brandeis
University Press, 2001.
Moskovitz, Sarah.
Love Despite Hate: Child Survivors of the Holocaust
and Their Adult Lives. New York: Schocken
Books, 1983.
Nicholas, Lynn H.
Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi
Web. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Rabinowitz, Dorothy.
New Lives : Survivors of the Holocaust Living
in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1976.
Steinitz, Lucy and David
Szonyi, eds. Living After the Holocaust:
Reflections by the Post-war Generation in America.
New York: Bloch Publishing, 1976.
Vegh, Claudine.
I Didn't Say Goodbye.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.
Interviews with children of the Holocaust.
Wyman, David S.
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the
Holocaust, 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon
Books, 1984.
Wyman, David S.
Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis,
1938-1941. New York: Pantheon Books,
1985.
Zucker, Bat-Ami. "Frances
Perkins and the German-Jewish Refugees, 1933-1940"
American Jewish History (Vol. 89, No.
1). March 2001.
The Children of Willesden Lane
Website
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
Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History
Exhibition by Robert Sugar Showings include
Temple Am Shalom (Glencoe, IL): April 2007
Central College Drama Department (Pella, IA): Winter 2007
Florida Atlantic University: April 2006
The New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum and Study Center: Fall 2006
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