Kindertransport (NHB Modern Plays)

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The End Of Everything Ever". New International Encounter. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014 . Retrieved 20 May 2014. Kindertransport statue to mark WWII refugees' arrival in Harwich". BBC News. 1 September 2022 . Retrieved 27 February 2023. Shirley, Dame Stephanie, Let IT Go: The Memoirs of Dame Stephanie Shirley. After her arrival in the UK as a five-year-old Kindertransport refugee, she went on to make a fortune in with her software company; much of which she gave away. 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.

Bob Kirk was given his sharp, pointedly British name by a Scottish captain when he joined the army towards the end of the war. His real name is Rudolf Kirchheimer. Is there any of Rudolf Kirchheimer left? “I suppose there must be somewhere,” he says. The Winton children reenacted their Kindertransport journey on 1 st September 1939 with their families. They travelled from Prague by steam train to Hook of Holland, then to Harwich, and finally they boarded a British train to Liverpool Street Station. They arrived on 4September and were met by their rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton.

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My Family for the War (2013), a young adult novel by Anne C. Voorhoeve, recounts the story of Franziska Mangold, a ten-year-old Christian girl of Jewish ancestry who goes on the Kindertransport to live with an Orthodox British family.

Consider ways in which Diane Samuels explores ideas of identity in this play in Act 1 Scene 2, and elsewhere in the act. After the war, many of the Kinder received naturalisation papers declaring them to be British citizens. The opening scene contrasts with Evelyn assisting Faith in her preparations to move out and mirrors her past journey when Helga prepares young Evelyn (Eva) for her journey to England. While the latter instructs her to be independent and thus teaches her to sew her own coat, in the former scenario, Evelyn is supplying Faith with everything possible to avoid any trouble for her in her new home. The mirroring effect also works when Eva sews her coat and Evelyn polishes a glass repeatedly, and later when Helga opens the case to inspect the items necessary for Eva’s journey and Faith opens a trunk full of her mother’s possessions that are a direct link to her Jewish past. Drama as a literary form allows for time to seamlessly blend due to its performative nature. Two eras can be simultaneously presented on stage to let the audience have a visualisation of the character’s psyche and thoughts. The interesting scene of holding The Ratcatcher book both by Faith and Helga foreshadows young Eva’s journey to be similar to that in the book- an unwilling movement away from the family. The Nazis came to power in 1933. In the years leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War they persecuted the Jewish people living in Germany and its territories, destroying their properties, businesses, places of worship and detaining them in concentration camps where most were eventually killed.Immediately after the Nazis came to power in 1933 the persecution of Jews began. This reached a pre-war peak with the November Pogrom ( Kristallnacht) on 9/10 November 1938, when 267 synagogues were destroyed, 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 people were taken to concentration camps.