Kindertransport

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

Between 1939 and the outbreak of War, almost 10,000 unaccompanied German children were sent by their parents to foster homes in Britain while the parents were despatched to the death camps

Nine-year-old Eva ends up in Manchester

When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins a process of denial of her roots

It's only when her own daughter discovers some old letters in the attic that Eva is forced to confront the truth about her past

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

REVIEWS

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

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

"Samuels has written the best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships" ~ Guardian

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