The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory

A timely study of the effects of family separation on child refugees, using newly discovered archival sources from the WWII era: "Highly recommended." —Choice

The Kindertransport—an organized effort to extract children living under the threat of Nazism—lives in the popular memory as well as in literature as a straightforward act of rescue and salvation, but these celebratory accounts leave little room for a deeper, more complex analysis. This volume reveals that in fact many children experi...