TY - JOUR
T1 - “Liebe Eltern! – Liebes Kind!”
T2 - Letters between Kindertransportees and their Parents as Everyday Life Documents
AU - Hammel, Andrea
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - This article examines letters by those who came to Britain on a Kindertransport in 1938/39 and their families. Research on the Kindertransport can fall back on a large number of memory documents but far fewer contemporary records. Diaries and letters are two genres which depict the everyday life of the child refugee but also that of the parents who were often still in Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia. This article will outline what we can learn from these letters about the Kindertransport experience from different angles.
AB - This article examines letters by those who came to Britain on a Kindertransport in 1938/39 and their families. Research on the Kindertransport can fall back on a large number of memory documents but far fewer contemporary records. Diaries and letters are two genres which depict the everyday life of the child refugee but also that of the parents who were often still in Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia. This article will outline what we can learn from these letters about the Kindertransport experience from different angles.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/44091
M3 - Article
SN - 1388-3720
VL - 16
SP - 155
EP - 172
JO - Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
JF - Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
ER -