Category:Holocaust Refugee Children (subject)

Holocaust Refugee Children (see Holocaust Children Studies)

• Kindertransport -- Kraus Rescue Mission -- Tehran Children

Overview

Since the early 1930s, many Jews tried to escape persecution by leaving the countries under Nazi rule. Many children emigrated with their families, many were sent alone, never to see their parents again.

Countries of refuge

• Holocaust Refugee Children, Argentina
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Australia
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Belgium
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Brazil
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Canada
• Holocaust Refugee Children, China
• Holocaust Refugee Children, France
• Holocaust Refugee Children, India
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Iran
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Italy
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Netherlands
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Palestine
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Philippines
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Soviet Union
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Sweden
• Holocaust Refugee Children, Switzerland
• Holocaust Refugee Children, United Kingdom
• Holocaust Refugee Children, United States

China

• Ursula Bacon (F / Germany, 1927) -- <Memoirs> "Shanghai Diary".
• Alfred Kohn (M / Germany, 1927) -- later moved to the United States
• John G. Stoessinger (M / Austria, 1927-2017) -- <Memoirs> "From Holocaust to Harvard".

• Ilse Charny (F / Austria, 1928) -- <Memoirs> "Year of the Dragon".

• Betty Grebenschikoff (F / Germany, 1929)

• Evelyn Pike Rubin (F / Germany, 1930) -- <Memoirs> "Ghetto Shanghai" (1993)

• Harold Janklowicz (M / Germany, 1931)

• Sigmund Tobias (M / Germany, 1932) -- <Memoirs> "Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai" (2009).

• Helen Bix (F / Germany, 1933)

• Peter Nash (M / Germany, 1935) -- <Memoirs> "Escape from Berlin".

• Myra Davis / Myra Heller (F / Lithuania, 1936)

• Peter Max (M / German, 1937)

• Mary Steinhauser (F / Austria, 1938)

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

• David Kranzler, Japanese, Nazis & Jews: The Jewish refugee community of Shanghai, 1938-1945 (1976)
• Guang Pan, A Study of Jewish Refugees in China, 1933–1945

FILMOGRAPHY :

• Shanghai Ghetto, documentary (2002)
• A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, animated family film (2010)
• Above the Drowning Sea, documentary (2017)

England

• See Kindertransport

India

• Stephen Tauber (M / Austria, 1932)
• Tom Stoppard / Tomáš Straussler (M, Czechia, 1937)

Kenya

• Inge Berg (F / Germany, 1929)
• Stefanie Zweig (F / Germany, 1932) -- <Memoirs> "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (Nowhere in Africa) (1995), adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 2001.
• Giselle Berg (F / Germany, 1933)

Soviet Union

• Hanna Pankowsky (F / Poland, 1928-2020) - Memoirs East of the Storm (1999).
• David Silberman (M / Latvia, 1934)
• Marek Halter (M / Poland, 1936)

BIBLIOGRAPHY : Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union, eds. Atina Grossmann, M.Edele, and S. Fitzpatrick.

Sweden

• Leif Donde (M / Denmark, 1937)