Kindertransport (play)

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Kindertransport is a play by Diane Samuels, which examines the life, during World War II and afterwards, of a Kindertransport child. Though fictitious, it is based upon many real kinder stories.[1] The play is published by Nick Hern Books.[2]

Play Content

In November 1938, after nights of violence against Jews across Germany and Austria, the British government introduced a program called the Kindertransport (children’s transport), which gave Jewish children—and only children—safe passage to the UK. Spared the horrors of the death camps, the Jewish “Kinder” were uprooted, separated from their parents and transported to a different culture where they faced, not the unmitigated horror of the death camps, but a very human mixture of kindness, indifference, occasional exploitation, and the selflessness of ordinary people faced with needy children.

Notable Productions

Kindertransport was first performed in the UK by the Soho Theatre Company at the Cockpit Theatre in London on April 13, 1993 and the US at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York on April 26, 1994.[3] Subsequently the play has been produced in Sweden, Japan, Germany, Austria, Canada and South Africa.[citation needed] It was adapted by the author for a BBC Radio 4 production in 1995.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Play's preface - author's note
  2. ↑ Publisher - ISBN 978-1-85459-527-0
  3. ↑ All About Jewish Theatre
  4. ↑ Author's biography at Group Tix
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