Kindertransport

Few books have made me nearly cry. This got me damn close. Kindertransport is a play based on the true accounts from the final trains carrying Jewish children out of Germany before WWII began. And it just rips at the heartstrings with honestly the most devastating revelations and penny-drop moments.......more

I saw this play several years ago and utterly loved it. Today, I reread the script and was struck again by how poignantly Samuels writes about a child being separated from her parents. The beauty of this play is that the consequences of the forced separation (though it was done through love) can be......more

The author took several stories of people who traveled via the Kindertrasnsport and wove them into a play which shifted from the characters during 1939 and the present. The connection between mother and daughter is universal.......more

I listened to the audioplay from LA Theatre Works of Kindertransport, and it was well worth the read. The cast gave moving performances, and it's a devastating story that all too many people experienced in reality. I liked the way it addressed the antisemitism against and the forced assimilation of......more