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Kindertransport was the name given to the mission which took thousands of children to safety ahead of World War Two. It helped 10,000 unaccompanied children to escape from Germany, Austria, and Czechia to England.

Memoirs / Semi-biographical Novels

• Lore Segal, Other People's Houses: A Novel (1964)

• Ruth L. David, Ein Kind unserer Zeit (1996) / ET: Child of Our Time: A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust (2002)

• Edith Milton, The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English (2005)

Films/Documentary

• All My Loved Ones (1999) -- feature film

• My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996) -- documentary
• The Children Who Cheated the Nazis: The Story of the Kindertransport (2000) -- documentary
• Into the Arms of Strangers (2000) -- documentary
• Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good (2002) -- documentary
• Holocaust Day: A Haven in Wales (2005) -- documentary

• Sel Hubert, Kindertransport (2011) -- video (12m)
• Kindertransport (2013) -- video (5m)

Bibliography

1999

Anne L. Fox and Eva Abraham-Podietz, Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport (West Orange, NJ : Behrman House, 1999)

Nonfiction <elementary and junior high school>.

"Tells the true stories of children who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission led by concerned British to save Jewish children from the Holocaust."--Publisher description.

Anne L. Fox has written about her childhood in Nazi Germany and her subsequent departure to England with the Kindertransport when she was 12 years old.

Eva Abraham-Podietz is also a Holocaust survivor. She now lives in the U.S., and speaks primarily to school youngsters.

2000

Mark Jonathan Harris, and Deborah Oppenheimer. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (New York, NY, and London: Bloomsbury, 2000).

"Chronicles the events and people involved in the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi territories, and what happened after the war. Official tie-in to the Warner Brothers documentary. First hand account of the extraordinary rescue mission of 10,000 children before the outbreak of World War II. For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered children, 90 percent of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. Most of the children never saw their families again. Into the Arms of Strangers recounts the remarkable story of this rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport, and its dramatic impact on the lives of the children who were saved. The book is the companion to the feature-length documentary which was released in the theatres by Warner Bros. in Fall 2000. It contains stories in their own words from the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents. They recount, in harrowing detail, the effects of the Nazi's reign of terror, the horror of Kristallnacht, the agonizing decision by the parents to send their children away, the journey, the difficulties of adjustment in Britain, the outbreak of war, and the children's tragic discovery afterward that most of their parents had perished in concentration camps. The stories are heartbreaking, but also inspiring. These are the stories of those who survived with the help of others; they are stories about the strength and resolve of children; and most astonishing, these are stories not yet heard about the Holocaust."--Publisher description.

Child survivors

• Gerda Mayer (Czechia, 1927)

• John Grenville (Germany, 1928-2011)
• Karl W. Gruenberg (Austria, 1928-2007)
• Frank Marcus (Germany, 1928-1996)
• Isi Metzstein (Germany, 1928-2012)
• Michael Roemer (Germany, 1928)
• Joe Schlesinger (Austria, 1928-2019)
• Lore Segal (Austria, 1928)
• Guenter Treitel (Germany, 1928-2019)
• Ruth Westheimer (Germany, 1928)

• Yosef Alon (Czechia, 1929-1973)
• Ruth L. David (Germany, 1929)
• Geoffrey Hartman (Germany, 1929-2016)
• Hella Pick (Austria, 1929)

• Otto Decker (Germany, 1930)
• Walter Feit (Austria, 1930)
• Astrid Zydower (Germany, 1930-2005)

• Frank Auerbach (Germany, 1931)
• Renata Laxova (Czechia, 1931)

• Alf Dubs (Czechia, 1932)
• Edith Milton (Germany, 1932)

• Arno Allan Penzias (Germany, 1933)
• Steve Shirley (Germany, 1933)

• Erich Reich (Austria, 1935)
• Eva Hesse (Germany, 1936-1970)
• Fred Rosner (Germany, 1936)

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