Hopkinson's expertly crafted book about the Kindertransport combines first person narratives, historical details and commentary to present readers with a much-needed history of the children who escaped Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport, an organized rescue operation that helped Jewish children reach sa...
Hopkinson's expertly crafted book about the Kindertransport combines first person narratives, historical details and commentary to present readers with a much-needed history of the children who escaped Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport, an organized rescue operation that helped Jewish children reach sa...
Last summer, I read and loved Celia Fremlin’s 1959 novelUncle Paul,a wonderfully compelling story about what can happen when our imagination runs wild, conjuring up all sorts of nightmare scenarios from our fears and suspicions. Faber’s latest Fremlin reissue, the 1972 novelAppointment with Yes...
It takes a familiar period – World War II and the rise of Nazi Germany – and provides new perspectives through the experience of Max, a Jewish tween boy who is sent away from his family on the Kindertransport to live with a wealthy Jewish family in England who turn out to be spies. ...
The story of the children put on trains by their parents to escape Nazi controlled homelands. The Kindertransport movement took almost 10,000 children to Britain at the outbreak of WWII. Most of them never see their families again. An important book. This is a picture book, but the conte...
The name, like everything about his past, is strange to him. Austerlitz’s long search for his own history and origins opens doors to larger questions of identity and the impact of buried histories and memories. Note: at least 10,000 children escaped the Holocaust in the Kindertransport ...
A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the ... More »82. The Woman in the Dunes By Kobo Abe | Used Price: 80% Off Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's "The Woman in the Dunes" is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this "Penguin...
A Jewish family's son is sent to England in the "Kindertransports" organized by Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who saved almost 700 Czech Jewish children. Burning Bush (2013). Miniseries detailing the communist occupation of Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring, focusing on Jan Palach,...
Sent on a Kindertransport from Prague to London as a four-year-old refugee in 1939, he has fashioned a respected if lonely adult life as an architectural historian. Now retired, he tells the narrator - who, as in other books, much resembles Professor Sebald of UEA - about his painful ...
The Fortunate Ones(Ellen Umansky) — Rose Zimmer’s parents save her life by sending her on a Kindertransport from Austria to England in 1939. After the war, she desperately searches for her family’s Chaim Soutine painting, stolen by the Nazis. The search leads her to Lizzie Goldstein, who...