The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration
of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought
close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on
a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of
these children being of the Jewish faith. The outbreak of the Second
World War turned this short-term initiative into a longer-term episode
and Britain became home to the thousands that had been forced to
migrate across the continent to flee the Nazis and the tragic
Holocaust that would take place. This book re-evaluates and challenges
misconceptions about the Kindertransportees' experiences in Britain -
misconceptions that currently pervade Kindertransport scholarship. It
focuses on the particularity of the Scottish experience, scrutinising
misleading national pictures, which have dominated existing literature
and excluded this important part of the Kindertransport episode. An
estimated 8% of Kindertransportees were cared for in Scotland for the
duration of the war years and this book demonstrates how national
agendas were put into practice in a region that was far removed from
the administrative and bureaucratic hub of London. The Forgotten
Kindertransportees provides original interpretations as it considers a
number of important aspects of the Kindertransportees' experiences in
Scotland, including those of a social, political and religious
nature.This includes an examination of Scotland's philanthropic
welfare solutions for the dependent trans-migrant minor, the role of
Zionism and the impact of Scottish-Jewry's particular approach to
Judaism and a Jewish lifestyle upon broader life stories of
Kindertransportees. Using a vast body of new research material,
Frances Williams provides a fascinating and detailed examination of
the Kindertransport that is region-specific and one that is all the
more important because of its specificity. This is an important text
for anyone interested in the Holocaust and the social history of those
involved.
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ISBN
9781780936895
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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