Kindertransport statue to mark WWII refugees' arrival in Harwich". BBC News. 1 September 2022 . Retrieved 27 February 2023. Tenembaum, Baruch. "Nicholas Winton, British savior". The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation . Retrieved 3 September 2009. Judith Tydor Baumel, Unfulfilled Promise: Rescue and Resettlement of Jewish Refugee Children in the United States, 1934-1945 (The Denali Press: Alaska, 1990)

The Kindertransport carried Jewish children between the ages of 5 and 17 to Britain, where they could remain in safety until they could return to their families. The children travelled by boat and train, and arrived at Liverpool Street Station in London. They came from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Wiener Library in London (holds documents, books, pamphlets, video interviews on the Kindertransport) To mark the 80 th anniversary of the Kindertransport the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is co-producing Diane Samuels’ extraordinary heart-felt play with with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg in association with Selladoor Productions. Craig A. Spiegel: Returning ‘home’ after fleeing on the Kindertransport. In: Cleveland Jewish News. 14. August 2009. a b "600 Child Refugees Taken From Vienna; 100 Jewish Youngsters Going to Netherlands, 500 to England". The New York Times. 6 December 1938. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 29 March 2019.

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a b "Kindertransport, Jewish children leave Prague – Collections Search – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org . Retrieved 29 March 2019. Robbins, Trina (2011). Lily Renee, escape artist: from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer. London: Graphic Universe. ISBN 9780761381143.

Ruth Barnett’s original suitcase in the exhibition “The Journey”, National Holocaust Centre and Museum Following this, children could complete the KS2 Kindertransport Research Activity. The printable teaching resource provides a template to guide children through independent research. It includes the names of five people who were involved in organising the Kindertransport and other efforts to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. There is a blank box where children can write down what they find out about each person. There is an answer sheet included which shows the key points about each person and their involvement in the Kindertransport mission. For a version of this activity completed in groups, each group could work on researching a different person from the resource. Children could find different things out about the person, including a picture, and include them in their own information poster. EVA SCHLESINGER – She is the younger self of Evelyn who is nine years old at the beginning of the play and is seventeen when the play ends. She is sent away by her parents to England from Germany during the Nazi rule. Her young mind finds it unreasonable to bear separation from her loved ones with the web of uncertainty waiting for her at the other end. Gradually, she loses hope of her parent’s return and settles into the English family and customs and even changes her name to Evelyn to sound like one of them.

In contrast to the Kindertransport, where the British Government waived immigration visa requirements, these OTC children received no United States government visa immigration assistance. The U.S. government made it difficult for refugees to get entrance visas. [56] However, from 1933 to 1945, the United States accepted about 200,000 refugees fleeing Nazism, more than any other country. Most of the refugees were Jewish. [57] Leverton, Bertha and Lowensohn, Shmuel (editors), I Came Alone: The Stories of the Kindertransports, The Book Guild, Ltd., 1990. ISBN 0-86332-566-1. Kindertransport takes place in a dusty storage room in Evelyn’s house outside London, with Evelyn’s memories of her childhood before, during, and after World War II interspersed throughout the play’s main action, which takes place in the present day. Agnes Grunwald-Spier, The Other Schindlers: Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust (The History Press: Port Stroud, 2010) The Kirks say they found great solace in being able to talk to each other about their experiences, but they didn’t talk to their sons about what they had been through, wanting them to “have as normal a life as possible and not burden them with our history”. One son did not hear their full stories until they gave a talk at the local synagogue in 1992. Bob refers to “40-year syndrome” – the time it took for Holocaust survivors to start opening up about their lives and for other people to be willing to listen.

On 1 September 2009, a special Winton train set off from the Prague Main railway station. The train, consisting of an original locomotive and carriages used in the 1930s, headed to London via the original Kindertransport route. On board the train were several surviving Winton children and their descendants, who were to be welcomed by the now hundred-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton in London. The occasion marked the 70th anniversary of the intended last Kindertransport, which was due to set off on 3 September 1939 but did not because of the outbreak of the war. At the train's departure, Sir Nicholas Winton's statue was unveiled at the railway station. [74] Controversy [ edit ] Klinger, Jerry (21 August 2010). "Beyond Balfour". Christian In Israel. The Jerusalem Post . Retrieved 30 May 2013. Schoolteachers and schoolchildren preserve the memory, for instance through the creation of art works.Her recollection of leaving her parents to board the Kindertransport – by this time they had moved to a much smaller flat near Berlin – are deeply affecting. “Everyone around us was in tears,” she recalls, “but my dad tried to joke about it. I was going on a big adventure. What a wonderful chance for a little girl to have. Then they must have jumped into a taxi to get to the next station but one, and there they were waving – waving until their hands almost dropped off, and that’s the last sight I ever had of them.” Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000, Bloomsbury Publishing), by Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer, with a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough and historical introduction by David Cesarani. Companion book to the Oscar-winning documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport with expanded stories from the film and additional interviews not included in the film.

a b "Kindertransport and KTA History". The Kindertransport Association. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012 . Retrieved 2 February 2014. It’s an additional grief that they didn’t even go together,” she says. “What my poor dad was going through; what they both must have gone through. Thanks to the courage and wisdom of my parents and the goodness of the two ladies who looked after me, I am here. The educational work I do now is in part a memorial to my parents. Their memory lives on and they are not forgotten.” I ask her for their names – Herte and Franz Kuhn. Sometimes names, among the bald, brutal statistics, are necessary. And the policeman smiled - 10,000 children escape from Nazi Europe (1990, Bloomsbury Publishing) by Barry Turner, relates the tales of those who organised the Kindertransporte, the families who took them in and the experiences of the Kinder. In September 2022 a bronze memorial entitled Safe Haven was unveiled on Harwich Quay by Dame Stephanie Shirley, a former Kindertransport child. [43] The work by artist Ian Wolter is a life-size, bronze sculpture of five Kindertransport refugees descending a ship’s gangplank. Each child is portrayed with a different emotion representing the storm of emotions they must have felt at the end of their journey by train and then ship. The figures are also engraved with quotes of four of the refugees describing their first experience of the UK. The memorial is within sight of the landing place at Parkeston Quay of thousands of Kindertransport children.

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He was born into a Jewish family in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), and was evacuated by the Kindertransport in August 1939, travelling with other Jewish children via Berlin to the Netherlands and then to Liverpool Street station in London. Kindertransport". Quakers in Britain. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014 . Retrieved 2 February 2014. A smaller number of children flew to Croydon, mainly from Prague. Other ports in England receiving the children included Dover. [23] [24] Last transport [ edit ] The SS Bodegraven carried the last group of Kindertransport children away from continental Europe during the Second World War. It left IJmuiden harbour on 14 May 1940 shortly before the invading German armies reached the port. After the war, many of the Kinder received naturalisation papers declaring them to be British citizens.