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Never Look Back
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once the Nazis lost power. In practice, most of the kinder, as they called themselves, remained in Britain, eventually becoming citizens. This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children. After an anal...
The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39
Preliminary Material -- The Kindertransports: An Introduction /Anthony Grenville -- The Kindertransport in British Historical Memory /Caroline Sharples -- Polish Kinder and the Struggle for Identity /Jennifer Craig-Norton -- Nicholas Winton, Man and Myth: A Czech Perspective /Jana Burešová -- Migration after the Kindertransport: The Scottish Legacy? /Frances Williams -- The Last of the Kindertransports. Britain to Australia, 1940 /Alexandra Ludewig -- From Europe to the Antipodes: Acculturation and Identity of the Deckston Children and Kindertransport Children in New Zealand /Simone Gigliotti and Monica Tempian -- The Ordeals of Kinder and Evacuees in Comparative Perspective /Edward Timms ...
The Forgotten Kindertransportees
The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of these children being of the Jewish faith. The outbreak of the Second World War turned this short-term initiative into a longer-term episode and Britain became home to the thousands that had been forced to migrate across the continent to flee the Nazis and the tragic Holocaust that would take place. This book re-evaluates and challenges misconceptions about the Kindertransportees' experiences in Britain - misconceptio...
Escape: Teens on the Run
In simple, poignant prose, these primary source accounts capture the tragic and courageous experiences of young people who lived through the Holocaust and whose lives were forever altered by it.
Coventry
"On the evening of Thursday 14 November 1940 began the most severe bombing to hit Coventry during the Second World War. This raid represented a new kind of air warfare, one which sacrificed any immediate military goals and instead focused on obliterating all aspects of city life. By playing down the fact that Coventry was an industrial city and key centre for British armaments, and therefore a fair target, attention was drawn to the destruction of an ancient historic town and the total indifference of the bombers to civilian casualties, in this way the systematic bombing of this city was successfully exploited by the British by several means. Initially the media used reports and horrific ima...
I Came Alone
Presents accounts of persons who were brought to Great Britain as unaccompanied children in 1939 from the Greater Reich (Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia). Concentrating mostly on their lives in England and in North America, many of them also relate their experiences under the Nazi regime. Includes facsimiles of documents concerning these "children's transports" and their reception in Great Britain.
Into the Arms of Strangers
The story of what it was like to grow up Jewish in Nazi Germany, to escape danger and fear, and also to leave family and friends, on the British Kindertransport scheme. Among the voices we hear are those of two of the organisers, an English foster mother, and 13 surviving children.
Interrupted Journeys
Some 10,000 young German, Austrian and Czech Jews fled Nazi oppression in their homeland to seek refuge in Britain, America and Australia duringWWI. Leaving behind their parents, families and everything familiar they fled to an unknown country and future in their fight for survival. Interrupted Journeys reveals the wartime stories of the Kindertransports and other child and teen refugees, also the trials and eventual triumphs of young people who survived the Nazi camps, or were in hiding, and who migrated to the same destinations, sponsored by private and government agencies, in the post-war era. Some of the accounts are strange, like that of the Dunera Boys -- low category enemy aliens shipped from Britain to Australia, where they were interned for nearly two years "by mistake". Even stranger is the saga of the renowned (non-Jewish) Vienna Mozart Boys Choir, who had the misfortune to be touring Australia when war began. (Source: Publisher).
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Schweigen machen
Schweigen ist nicht die bloße Abwesenheit von Stimme. Es kann vielmehr eine bewusste, machtvolle Handlung sein, die ihrerseits Reaktionen und Gegenreaktionen hervorruft. Die Vielfalt von Schweigepraktiken und die grenzüberschreitende Qualität von Schweigen sind das Thema der Beiträge dieses Bandes. Wie wurde Schweigen in einer Geschichte der Moderne umgesetzt und unter welchen Bedingungen? Welche Auswirkungen und Folgen konnte es haben zu schweigen? In den Blick gerät eine Vielfalt an Praktiken, die von kontemplativer Stille, dem Abbruch der Kommunikation, einem taktischen Verschweigen bis hin zu einem Zum-Schweigen-Bringen oder Übertönen reichen. Die historische Untersuchung von Schweigepraktiken ermöglicht einen Zugang zu Fragen nach der Formierung von Gesellschaft. Außerdem regt sie dazu an, über Überlieferungs- und Interpretationsweisen historischer Quellen nachzudenken. Der Band trägt damit zur Reflexion über methodische Kernfragen der Geschichtsschreibung bei.
