Kindertransport: What Really Happened - Hardcover

Hammel, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509553762 ISBN 13: 9781509553761

Verlag: Polity Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the 'Kindertransport', this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story - but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart.

The Kindertransport was a complex visa waiver scheme, and its organizers did not necessarily act with altruism. The British government required a guarantee to indemnify itself against any expenses, and refused to admit the child refugees' parents. The selection criteria prioritized those who were likely to make the best contribution to society, rather than the most urgent cases. And some children and young people were placed in unsuitable homes, where many arrangements irrevocably broke down.

Written with striking empathy and insight, Andrea Hammel's expert analysis casts new light on what really happened during the Kindertransport. Revelatory and impassioned, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of migration and refugees, and offers thought-provoking lessons for how we might make life easier for children fleeing conflict today.

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Andrea Hammel is Professor of German and the Director of the Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509553762
• ISBN 13: 9781509553761
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
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