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Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport
Tells the true stories of children who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission led by concerned British to save Jewish children from the Holocaust.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
September 1st 1998
by Behrman House Publishing
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This is a YA type book, with all kinds of terms explained as they might need to be for teenagers. The basic information is rather well known, as is the fact that some of the children found good foster families, while others were treated like servants. It is interesting to note that after the six years or so that chlldren had been separated from their parents, both they and the parents changed--if the parents hadn't been killed in the Holocaust--so that it was hard for them to readjust. Most o...more
An excellent book. True stories of the children who escaped to England on the Kindertransport combines short stories of what their life was like in Germany prior to leaving with updates of how their lives turned out. Sidebars provide a glossary, and the use of photos and actual documents makes this both a riveting story and a textbook of the Holocaust told from the children's perspective. Just right for a 6th-8th grade unit.
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