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Full of fascinating, poignant material, and is carefully written and skillfully argued. The discovery of the Polenaktion Kinder files are an absolute treasure, giving us something that would otherwise be lost.
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~Rebecca Clifford, author of Commemorating the Holocaust
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Throughout the book, Jennifer Craig-Norton demonstrates an extremely sensitive, nuanced approach to her source material, and its importance to Kinder and their families. She offers an important and convincing counter to redemptive accounts of the Kindertransport that have dominated both secondary literature and the popular imagination.
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~Shirli Gilbert, author of From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust
"Highly recommended."
~Choice
"This review cannot do justice to the depth of material that Craig-Norton offers and the way she balances the experiences of all involved, especially those whose actions and feelings have been ignored in the past. Anyone interested in learning the real history of what occurred in England – the good and the bad – should read The Kindertransport."
~The Reporter Group
"It is an unflinching portrayal–enhanced by the judicious use of photographs and other illustrations–of the immediate and the lasting impacts of the transport on those involved and on subsequent generations. As such, this book deserves to be widely read."
~John Privilege - Ulster University, HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES
"Jennifer Craig-Norton's The Kindertransport is the latest of such books that attempt to provide a counternarrative to self-congratulatory understandings of the Kindertransport. Powerfully, Craig-Norton concludes that the celebratory and the critical should not be mutually exclusive, and that both the positives and negatives of this history should be acknowledged."
~Stephanie Homer, H-Judaic
