The Kindertransport to Britain 1938-39 : : new perspectives / / edited by Andrea Hammel and Bea Lewkowicz.

• Superior document: The yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 13
• Author: University of London. Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hammel, Andrea.; Lewkowicz, Bea.; University of London. Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English; German
• Series: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume examines the Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39. The seventeen contributions provide various new perspectives, which are investigated for the first time in this volume. Chapters focus on the Kindertransport in British historiography, on the identity development of specific groups of Kind...

Table of Contents

• 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 Future of Kindertransport Research: Archives, Diaries, Databases, Fiction / Andrea Hammel
• Therapeutic Aspects of Working Through the Trauma of the Kindertransport Experience / Ruth Barnett
• Writing the Life of a Kindertransportee: Memories and Challenges / Leslie Baruch Brent
• From Other People’s Houses into Shakespeare’s Kitchen: The Story of Lore Segal and How She Looked for Adventures and Where She Found Them / Julia K. Baker
• The Experience of Space in Lore Segal’s Other People’s Houses / Lorena Silos Ribas
• ‘You can't change names and feel the same’: The Kindertransport Experience of Susi Bechhöfer in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Martin Modlinger
• ‚...um an der Verlegung der Schule nach England teilzunehmen.’ Ein Gedenkstättenprojekt zur Erinnerung an die Kindertransporte aus Köln und der Region / Cordula Lissner and Ursula Reuter
• Refugee Voices (The AJR Audio-Visual Testimony Archive): A New Resource for the Study of the Kindertransport / Bea Lewkowicz
• The AJR Kindertransport Survey: Making New Lives in Britain / Hermann Hirschberger
• Index.