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Into the arms of strangers : stories of the Kindertransport /

by Harris, Mark Jonathan; Oppenheimer, Deborah.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2001Description: xiii, 292p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780747552697 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5318083Subject(s): Jewish children -- Germany | Germans -- Great Britain | Jewish children in the Holocaust | Warfare and Defence | European history | Biography: general | Second World War | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Germany | Inter-war period c 1919 to c 1939 | Social groups: religious groups & communities | Refugees & political asylum
Contents:
When the bough breaks; the 9th November; a light in the darkness; last goodbyes; into the arms of strangers; a thousand kisses; on the shoulders of children; war and deportation; somewhere to belong; none to comfort them; living with the past. In memory of Sylva Avramovici Oppenheimer, 1928-1993; postscript; the witnesses.
Summary: In 1938 the House of Commons voted to grant Jewish children special visas to enter the UK. This was known as the Kindertransport. This book looks at the scheme through the eyes of those who were directly involved. In November 1938, international public opinion was shocked by the news of Kristallnacht - the anti-Jewish pogrom that led to the burning of synagogues and the first mass arrests of Jewish men. Twelve days later, the British government implemented an imaginative plan, known informally as the Kindertransport, which allowed many children to leave the horrors of the Nazi regime and find temporary refuge within British families and hostels. By the time war was declared in September 1939, this brave undertaking had saved 10,000 lives.;This book, based on the Academy Award-winning feature documentary of the same name, reveals what it was like to grow up in the shadow of the Nazi threat, to escape danger and fear, but also to leave family and friends, perhaps for ever. It is poignantly told in the words of those directly involved.
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Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-285).

When the bough breaks; the 9th November; a light in the darkness; last goodbyes; into the arms of strangers; a thousand kisses; on the shoulders of children; war and deportation; somewhere to belong; none to comfort them; living with the past. In memory of Sylva Avramovici Oppenheimer, 1928-1993; postscript; the witnesses.

In 1938 the House of Commons voted to grant Jewish children special visas to enter the UK. This was known as the Kindertransport. This book looks at the scheme through the eyes of those who were directly involved. In November 1938, international public opinion was shocked by the news of Kristallnacht - the anti-Jewish pogrom that led to the burning of synagogues and the first mass arrests of Jewish men. Twelve days later, the British government implemented an imaginative plan, known informally as the Kindertransport, which allowed many children to leave the horrors of the Nazi regime and find temporary refuge within British families and hostels. By the time war was declared in September 1939, this brave undertaking had saved 10,000 lives.;This book, based on the Academy Award-winning feature documentary of the same name, reveals what it was like to grow up in the shadow of the Nazi threat, to escape danger and fear, but also to leave family and friends, perhaps for ever. It is poignantly told in the words of those directly involved.

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