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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Paperback)

by Mark Jonathan Harris (Author), Deborah Oppenheimer (Author), Lord Richard Attenborough (Preface)
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  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1582341621
  • ISBN-13: 978-1582341620
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 996,283 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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These witnesses lives are vividly and unforgettably re-created in this moving work. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Wonderfully moving... a noble story, beautifully told. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The often untold history of those who escaped the holocaust., 14 Mar 2002
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Here is a part of the Holocaust experience often overlooked amidst the horror of the cattle trains and the gas chambers. The Kindertransport was when Jewish children were brought from Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia to England, taking children away from their families, many of whom were never seen nor heard of again, and put into the arms of strangers in a new country and a new culture. The book features the varying testimonies of these children, recounting their contrasting experiences. One boy found himself living with a loving Jewish family in Norfolk, who became a "second family" to him even after the war had ended; one girl found herself in a strictly Methodist household in Liverpool; another became an unpaid servant but did not know how to get away; one boy went to a children's camp in Northern Ireland; one girl spent the war with several different families; and another abandoned the Kindertransport at the last minute and spent the war in the concentration camp at Belsen, and survived. What is made clear, even from this summary, is that there was no one "kindertransport experience" but rather thousands of deeply personal stories which are sometimes hard to read, sometimes touching, sometimes funny, often sad. This is a superb collection of memoirs and photographs following these individual experiences from Kristallnacht through to the end of the war and bringing to our attention something that many of us, particularly in my generation, never knew happened. It is something people should read, as it says a lot, above all, about human resiliance, strength and ingenuity through such difficulties as most of us will never have to experience.
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