The first transnational study of the memory of the Kindertransport and the first to explore how it is represented in museums, memorials, and commemorations.The Kindertransport, the rescue of ca. 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi sphere of control and influence before the Second World War, has often been framed as a "British story." This book recognizes that even though most of the "Kinder" were initially brought to the UK and many stayed, it was more than that. It therefore compares British memory of the Kindertransport to that of other host nations (the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). It is the first book to ask how the Kindertransport is remembered both in the countries of origin, particularly Germany, and in the host nations, as well as the first to analyze how it is represented in museums, memorials, and commemorations. Seeing memory of the Kindertransport in the host nations and in Germany as significantly different, the study argues that the different national memory discourses around the Nazi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the countries fzi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the countries from which the children originated.zi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the countries from which the children originated.

A timely study of the effects of family separation on child refugees, using newly discovered archival sources from the WWII era: “Highly recommended.” —Choice The Kindertransport—an organized effort to extract children living under the threat of Nazism—lives in the popular memory as well as in literature as a straightforward act of rescue and salvation, but these celebratory accounts leave little room for a deeper, more complex analysis. This volume reveals that in fact many children experienced difficulties with settlement: they were treated inconsistently by refugee agencies, their parents had complicated reasons for giving them up, and their caregivers had a variety of motives for taking them in. Against the grain of many other narratives, Jennifer Craig-Norton emphasizes the use of newly discovered archival sources, which include the correspondence of refugee agencies, carers, Kinder and their parents, and juxtaposes this material with testimonial accounts to show readers a more nuanced and complete picture of the Kindertransport. In an era in which the family separation of refugees has commanded considerable attention, this book is a timely exploration of the effects of family separation as it was experienced by child refugees in the age of fascism.

From December 1938 until the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, some 10,000 children traveled alone from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain on the Kindertransport - the children's transport. Memories That Won't Go Away tells the stories of hundreds of these kinder. Their experiences as strangers in a strange land were often complicated and painful, but as this book illustrates, the rescued children - and their many thousands of descendants - remain eternally grateful to the nation that saved them.

Preliminary Material -- The Kindertransports: An Introduction /Anthony Grenville -- The Kindertransport in British Historical Memory /Caroline Sharples -- Polish Kinder and the Struggle for Identity /Jennifer Craig-Norton -- Nicholas Winton, Man and Myth: A Czech Perspective /Jana Burešová -- Migration after the Kindertransport: The Scottish Legacy? /Frances Williams -- The Last of the Kindertransports. Britain to Australia, 1940 /Alexandra Ludewig -- From Europe to the Antipodes: Acculturation and Identity of the Deckston Children and Kindertransport Children in New Zealand /Simone Gigliotti and Monica Tempian -- The Ordeals of Kinder and Evacuees in Comparative Perspective /Edward Timms -- The Future of Kindertransport Research: Archives, Diaries, Databases, Fiction /Andrea Hammel -- Therapeutic Aspects of Working Through the Trauma of the Kindertransport Experience /Ruth Barnett -- Writing the Life of a Kindertransportee: Memories and Challenges /Leslie Baruch Brent -- From Other People's Houses into Shakespeare's Kitchen: The Story of Lore Segal and How She Looked for Adventures and Where She Found Them /Julia K. Baker -- The Experience of Space in Lore Segal's Other People's Houses /Lorena Silos Ribas -- 'You can't change names and feel the same': The Kindertransport Experience of Susi Bechhöfer in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz /Martin Modlinger -- '...um an der Verlegung der Schule nach England teilzunehmen.' Ein Gedenkstättenprojekt zur Erinnerung an die Kindertransporte aus Köln und der Region /Cordula Lissner and Ursula Reuter -- Refugee Voices (The AJR Audio-Visual Testimony Archive): A New Resource for the Study of the Kindertransport /Bea Lewkowicz -- The AJR Kindertransport Survey: Making New Lives in Britain /Hermann Hirschberger -- Index.

In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport spared thousands of Jewish children from the terror of the Third Reich and provided them with host families in Britain. "Children's Exodus" offers an in-depth look at the people and politics behind the various chains of rescue as well as the personal narratives of the children who left everything behind in the hope of finding safety. Drawing on unpublished interviews, journals, and articles, Vera K. Fast examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. "Children's Exodus" captures the life-affirming stories of child refugees with vivid detail and examines the motivations - religious or otherwise - of the people that orchestrated one of the greatest rescue missions of all time.

This important book tells the story of how ten thousand Jewish children were rescued out of Nazi Europe just before the outbreak of World War 2. They were saved by the Kindertransport — a rescue mission that transported the children (or Kinder) from Nazi-ruled countries to safety in Britain. The book includes real-life accounts of the children and is illustrated with archival photographs, paintings of pre-war Nazi Germany by artist, Hans Jackson, and original art by the Kinder commemorating their rescue.

The grocer, the teacher, the soldier, the Quaker... Mike Levy shines a light on the courageous deeds of twenty-two women and men who transformed the lives of the Kindertransport and other refugees. In 1938, when the Government refused to act and those around them turned a blind eye, these heroic individuals took it upon themselves to orchestrate one of the greatest lifesaving missions the world has ever seen. Until now the compelling accounts of these extraordinary rescue missions have remained untold. Mike Levy is a researcher for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Association for Jewish Refugees, an educator with the Holocaust Education Trust and Chair of The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust. In support of Safe Passage £1 from the Sale of this book will be donated to Safe Passage and used to help child refugees find legal routes to sanctuary. You can find out more about the vital work done by Safe Passage on their website.