Synopsis
A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life.
Kindertransport is a set text for GE Drama (AQA) and AS/A-Level English Literature (WJEC).
This edition also includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.
Winner of the 1992 Verity Bargate Award
'Desperately harrowing... searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human' The Times
'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature... presented with emotional clarity and intense sympathy' New Yorker
Themes
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Drama
- Jewish refugees
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Drama
- Jewish refugees--England--London--Drama
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- PR6069.A496 K56 2008
Performance
Cast
A small cast size of 6 total roles, 5 female and 1 male roles.
