Kindertransport

By Diane Samuels

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life...

Winner of the 1992 Verity Bargate Award

'Between 1938 and the outbreak of war, almost 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, were sent by their parents from Germany to Britain... Nine-year-old Eva ends up in Manchester... When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots... It is only when her own daughter discovers some old letters in the attic that Eva is forced to confront the truth about her past... Samuels has written the best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships' Guardian

'desperately harrowing... searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human' Times

'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature... presented with emotional clarity and intense sympathy' New Yorker

This edition also includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.