Kindertransport (Plume Drama) - Softcover

Samuels, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452274273 ISBN 13: 9780452274273

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

In 1938, seven-year-old Eva Schlesinger is put aboard a train filled with other Jewish children and carried away from Nazi Germany in a little-known rescue operation called "Kindertransport." More than four decades later, she had become a quintessential Englishwoman who hides her origins from everyone, including her own daughter. Here in Kindertransport her past and present collide. We see the terrified child who possesses only two gold rings and a Star of David hidden in the heel of her shoe to link her to the parents she left behind. And we watch the grown woman who had tried to forget the Kindertransport at the moment when her daughter discovers a storage box of papers. As her daughter questions her, a shattering truth emerges about Eva's identity, the true cost of survival, and the future that grows out of a traumatized past.

About this title

Review:

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

Searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human --The Times

I defy anyone who is a mother or a daughter not to feel a shiver up the spine and the prick of tears as three generations of women count the price of survival...This play tells a true story in more ways than one. --Guardian

Diane Samuels' tale of a nine-year-old Jewish girl escaping an increasingly dangerous pre-War Germany for the relatively safe confines of Manchester has become a classic. --The Stage

About the Author:

Diane Samuels was born in Liverpool in 1960 and worked as a drama teacher before becoming a full time writer in 1992. She lives in north London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0452274273
• ISBN 13: 9780452274273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128