Kindertransport (NHB Modern Plays)

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Rudberg, Pontus (2017). The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust. Routledge. pp.114–117, 131–137. ISBN 9781138045880. OCLC 1004765246. Ruth Morley, nee Birnholz (from Austria), American costume designer for film and theater, created the Annie Hall look

Lily Renée Wilhelm (from Austria), American comic book pioneer [59] (graphic novelist, illustrator) [60] The Lake District Holocaust Project tells the story of the Windermere Boys, three hundred child Holocaust Survivors, who found new homes in Britain after the war. Eva is forced to leave Germany and her Jewish culture at the young age of 9. Despite this, her values are still very strong. For example, a very traditional Jewish view is that pigs are dirty animals and therefore should not be eaten. When Eva is offered ham, she refuses it. “Got ham in. I not to eat ham. It from pig.” Alike to a lot of children when doing something that’s not approved of by their parents, Eva believes that her mother will find out if she disobeys the Jewish rules and eats the ham. This shows how although Eva is no longer living with her Jewish family, she still continues to abide by the rules she has followed her entire life. This displays to the audience how Eva holds onto her past, and her Jewish/German identity I came alone - the stories of the Kindertransports (1990, The Book Guild Ltd) edited by Bertha Leverton and Shmuel Lowensohn, is a collective non-fiction description by 180 of the children of their journey fleeing to England from December 1938 to September 1939 unaccompanied by their parents, to find refuge from Nazi persecution.Wiener Library in London (holds documents, books, pamphlets, video interviews on the Kindertransport) A number of children saved by the Kindertransports went on to become prominent figures in public life, with two (Walter Kohn, Arno Penzias) becoming Nobel Prize winners. These include: 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]

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. During the morning of 21 November 1938, before a major House of Commons debate on refugees, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare met a large delegation representing Jewish groups, as well as Quaker and other non-Jewish groups, working on behalf of refugees. The groups, though considering all refugees, were specifically allied under a non-denominational organisation called the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany". [9] This organisation was considering only the rescue of children, who would need to leave their parents behind in Germany. No limit upon the permitted number of refugees was ever publicly announced. Initially, the Jewish refugee agencies considered 5,000 as a realistic target goal. However, after the British Colonial Office turned down the Jewish agencies' separate request to allow the admission of 10,000 children to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine, the Jewish agencies then increased their planned target number to 15,000 unaccompanied children to enter Great Britain in this way. [ citation needed] Fox, Anne L., and Podietz, Eva Abraham. Ten Thousand Children: True stories told by children who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport. Behrman House, Inc., (1999). ISBN 0-874-41648-5. Published in West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America.

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Kindertransport: The Play (1993), a play by Diane Samuels. It examines the life, during the war and afterwards, of a Kindertransport child. It presents the confusions and traumas that arose for many kinder, before and after they were fully integrated into their British foster homes. And, as importantly, their confusion and trauma when their real parents reappeared in their lives; or more likely and tragically, when they learned that their real parents were dead. There is also a companion book by the same name. On 25 November, British citizens heard an appeal for foster homes on the BBC Home Service radio station from former Home Secretary Viscount Samuel. Soon there were 500 offers, and RCM volunteers started visiting possible foster homes and reporting on conditions. They did not insist that the homes for Jewish children should be Jewish homes. Nor did they probe too carefully into the motives and character of the families: it was sufficient for the houses to look clean and the families to seem respectable. [15]

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. The Kindertransport to Great Britain - Stories from North Rhine-Westphalia (documentation by the Kindertransport Project Group of the Yavneh Memorial and Educational Centre, Cologne, Germany) Photographs relating to the Kindertransport need to be understood in historical context. Some of the Kinder still have photographs of themselves and their families taken before they came to Britain. Newspapers from the late 1930s and 1940s use a recurring image of a tired little girl holding onto her doll. By contrast, later images of the Kinder with their foster families highlight how they were adapting to a new way of life. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Why do we tend to mainly focus on the transports to Britain rather than other transports to other countries? In 1939 Senator Robert F. Wagner and Rep. Edith Rogers proposed the Wagner-Rogers Bill in the United States Congress. This bill was to admit 20,000 unaccompanied refugees under the age of 14 into the United States from Germany and areas under German control. Most of the child refugees would have been Jewish. However, due to opposition from Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, it never left the committee stage and failed to get Congressional approval. [58] Notable people saved [ edit ] Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs Walter Kohn Ruth Westheimer

a b "Kindertransport; Organising and Rescue". The National Holocaust Centre and Museum. 12 December 2016 . Retrieved 29 March 2019.How might the experiences of the British, the American, the Swedish, the Belgian, the Australian, and the New Zealand Kinder be similar and different?