Never Look Back - 9781557536129

Never Look BackThe Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945\nAuthor(s): Judith Tydor Baumel-Shwartz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Purdue University Press, United States\nImprint: Purdue University Press\nISBN-13: 9781557536129, 978-1557536129\nSynopsis\nBetween December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as \""transmigrants,\"" planning to return to Europe once the Nazis lost power. In practice, most of the kinder, as they called themselves, remained in Britain, eventually becoming citizens. This book charts the history of the Kindertransport movement, focusing on the dynamics that developed between the British government, the child refugee organizations, the Jewish community in Great Britain, the general British population, and the refugee children.\n\nAfter an analysis of the decision to all.