Title National and transnational memories of the kindertransport : exhibitions, memorials, and commemorations / Amy Williams and Bill Niven

Published Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations Series Dialogue and disjunction: studies in Jewish German literature, culture, and thought Dialogue and disjunction. Contents British Memory of the Kindertransport -- American and Canadian Memories of the Kindertransport -- Memories of the Kindertransport in Australia and New Zealand -- German Memory of the Kindertransport Summary "The first transnational study of the memory of the Kindertransport and the first to explore how it is represented in museums, memorials, and commemorations. The Kindertransport, the rescue of ca. 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and occupied Europe before the Second World War, has often been framed as a "British story." This book recognizes that even though most of the "Kinder" were initially brought to the UK and many stayed, it was more than that. It therefore compares British memory of the Kindertransport to that of other host nations (the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). It is the first book to ask how the Kindertransport is remembered both in the countries of origin and in the host nations, as well as the first to analyze how it is represented in museums, memorials, and commemorations. Seeing memory of the Kindertransport as fundamentally different in the host nations and the countries of origin, the study argues that the different national memory discourses around the Nazi persecution of Jews shape the respective countries' images of the Kindertransport, and that those images in turn shape the discourses - especially in Britain. Yet while national memory frameworks remain crucial to how the Kindertransport is remembered, the book also documents the increasing significance of transnational memory trends that link the host nations with each other and with the perpetrator countries"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2023) Subject Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- England Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Australia Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- United States Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Canada Jewish children -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Holocaust survivors -- England Holocaust survivors -- Australia Holocaust survivors -- United States Holocaust survivors -- Canada Holocaust memorials. Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Exhibitions World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust Holocaust memorials Holocaust survivors Jewish children Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Australia Canada England Germany United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Niven, Bill, 1956- author. LC no. 2023006452 ISBN 9781800108721 1800108729 9781800108738 1800108737

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