Nazi authorities staged a violent pogrom upon Jews in Germany on November 9–10‚ 1938‚ known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). After the pogrom‚ the British government eased immigration restrictions for certain categories of Jewish refugees. British authorities agreed to allow an unspecified number of children under the age of 17 to enter Great Britain from Germany and German-annexed territories (that is‚ Austria and the Czech lands). They were spurred by British public opinion and the persistent
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Discuss how separation has affected characters in this extract and how Samuels presents separation elsewhere in the play. Separation is a key theme in Kindertransport. This theme is explored in a variety of ways throughout the play‚ and even more thoroughly in Act 2 Scene 2. Kindertransport was a rescue mission‚ which took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War; being the title of the play‚ we get the impression that the play will include some sort of separation. Jewish
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had been on Kindertransports‚ some have died in camps‚ and some had been in orphanages. Children who were kept away from the Holocaust were called “Hidden Children”. A nine-year-old girl‚ Judith Pinczovsky‚ survived the Holocaust because of the strength of her mother. After the war‚ children had to start their lives over with parents or without. Most importantly‚ Children of the
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Page fifteen opens with ‘pipe music’‚ this gives the audience a sense of what the story of Der Rattenfanger is about even if they fail to understand the German title. Pipe music is usually associated with the story of the Pied Piper‚ which is what we later discover Der Rattenfanger expresses. As Faith reads the title of Der Rattenfanger Eva asks her ‘Mutti’ the question of what an abyss is‚ this is significant in regards to describing the character of The Ratcatcher‚ an abyss is usually associated
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Children of the Holocaust Advanced Composition/ ENGL 135 June 20‚ 2011 Alena Synjova once stated‚ “ I’d like to go away alone where there are other‚ nicer people‚ somewhere into the far unknown‚ there‚ where no one kills another. Maybe more of us‚ a thousand strong‚ will reach this goal before too long” (Volavková‚ 1994‚ p. 50). During the Holocaust‚ people craved opportunity to escape to a place where there were polite people and no one killed each other. The Holocaust affected everyone
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German army as it invaded the Soviet Union (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‚ N.D). In the article “Children during the Holocaust (abridged article)” an opportunity parents had to hide their kids is highlighted ‚ “Between 1938 and 1940‚ the Kindertransport(Children’s Transport) was the informal name of a rescue effort which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children (without their parents) to safety in Great Britain from Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories.” (United States Holocaust Memorial
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Shamair Nesbitt November 14‚ 2013 Mrs. Rigney Intro to Psychology- TR 1:30- 2:45 John Bowlby Edward John Moston Bowlby was born February 26‚ 1907. He was a british psychologist‚ psychiatrist‚ and psychoanalyst‚ notable for his interest in child development with the attachment theory. Bowlby was born in London to an upper middle class family. He was the fourth of six children and was raised by a nanny. His father Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby was a surgeon to the King’s Household. Bowlby only
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Children were especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups in accordance with their ideological views‚ either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security. The Germans and their collaborators killed children both for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks. The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children‚ including over
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emigrating‚ there was a heavy tax on emigration and the amount of money that was allowed to be transferred from german banks abroad was restricted. This meant‚ that if they managed to emigrate they would be left in poverty. With a program called Kindertransport‚ German Jewish children were taken into the UK alone. This meant that thousands of children had to leave their families behind in a dangerous country. The vast majority of Jews that were still in Germany after October 1941 were murdered during
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children from Czechoslovakia but the States did not accept his request. His goal was to get as many children out of Czechoslovakia and to Great Britain before the outbreak of the war. The way that he chose to go about this was similar to the Kindertransport in
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