Kindertransport

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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)

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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