Kindertransport (NHB Modern Plays)

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In September 2022 a bronze memorial entitled Safe Haven was unveiled on Harwich Quay by Dame Stephanie Shirley, a former Kindertransport child. [43] The work by artist Ian Wolter is a life-size, bronze sculpture of five Kindertransport refugees descending a ship’s gangplank. Each child is portrayed with a different emotion representing the storm of emotions they must have felt at the end of their journey by train and then ship. The figures are also engraved with quotes of four of the refugees describing their first experience of the UK. The memorial is within sight of the landing place at Parkeston Quay of thousands of Kindertransport children. Orthodox families – Orthodox Judaism teaches strict adherence to rabbinical interpretation of Jewish law and its traditional observances. Many wrote letters to the Red Cross and other organisations to try to find out what had happened to their families. For some, these answers would take years to come. Some Kinder were later reunited with their parents.

Hoffman, Jordan (17 December 2021). "Tovah Feldshuh is very becoming in 'Becoming Dr. Ruth' ". Times of Israel. The English German Girl (2011), a novel by British writer Jake Wallis Simons, is the fictional account of a 15-year-old Jewish girl from Berlin who is brought to England via the Kindertransport operation. Crossing Channel to life. Monument to the 10,000 Jewish children who traveled from Hook of Holland to Harwich. The newspaper De Rotterdammer of 11 November 1938 is depicted next to the sitting boy, with the messages The admission of German Jewish children and Thousands of Jews must leave Germany. One of the protagonists of Diane Samuels’s play Kindertransport is the Ratcatcher who is a fictional character that is based on the German folktale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Although the original story is not mentioned in Samuel’s play, it is important to consider the origins of the idea for the Ratcatcher when analysing the play. Furthermore, one can compare how the mythical character is originally described and how Diane Samuels created her figure and discuss why she fabricated him in this way. Hence, in the following chapter, the most familiar version of the Pied Piper will be summarized and a comparison between the German mythic character and Samuel’s Ratcatcher will be drawn. 2.1. Origins - The Pied Piper of

Part of The Family – The Christadelphians and the Kindertransport, a collection of personal accounts of Kindertransport children sponsored by Christadelphian families. Part of the Family

In November 1938, after nights of violence against Jews across Germany and Austria, the British government introduced a programme called the Kindertransport (children's transport), which gave Jewish children—and only children—safe passage to the UK. Spared the horrors of the death camps, the Jewish "Kinder" were uprooted, separated from their parents and transported to a different culture where they faced, not the unmitigated horror of the death camps, but a very human mixture of kindness, indifference, occasional exploitation, and the selflessness of ordinary people faced with needy children. The work of the BCRC in Czechoslovakia was little noted until 1988 when the refugee children held a reunion. By that time most of the people who had worked in the kindertransport in Czechoslovakia had died and Winton became the living symbol of British help to refugees fleeing the Nazis, especially Jewish refugees, before the Second World War. [51] Wilfrid Israel [ edit ] 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.Young refugees of the first Kindertransport after their arrival at Harwich, Essex, in the early morning of 2 December 1938 Jewish refugee children on their arrival in London on the Warszawa 1939 issued Identity Document for travelling to the UK, used by a child on the Kindertransport Hope Square plaque Klinger, Jerry (21 August 2010). "Beyond Balfour". Christian In Israel. The Jerusalem Post . Retrieved 30 May 2013. The Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) was a unique humanitarian rescue programme which ran between November 1938 and September 1939. Approximately 10,000 children, the majority of whom were Jewish, were sent from their homes and families in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.