![]() Initially, without the visual clues of a film, I found the testimonies hard to follow because of the continual switching between different voices. ![]() The book is divided into several time periods from before Kristallnacht (titled When the bough breaks) until the year these conversations were recorded ( Living with the Past). It consists of the testimonies of 12 children, a couple of surviving parents and foster parents, and of the organizers Nicholas Winton and Norbert Wollheim.Īnd in an afterword which apparently wasn’t in the film, Deborah Oppenheimer has a tribute to her mother, another of the kinder and whose lifetime inability to share her history led Deborah to connect with those of the Kindertransport who knew her mother and ultimately, to the documentary. This is the transcript of a documentary that was made twenty years ago now, which I haven’t seen, but it can easily stand on its own as a highly readable and moving tribute to those involved in the Kindertransport. ![]()
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