Lot 197
Early Report on the "Kindertransport" - London, 1939-1940
Movement for the Care of Children from Germany, LTD… First Annual Report, November 1938 - December 1939. Printed by the Refugee Children's Movement at Bloomsbury House, [London, late 1939 or early 1940]. English.
First detailed periodic report on the "Kindertransport" - the rescue operation bringing Jewish and non-Aryan Christian children from the territory of Nazi Germany to Britain, following a resolution taken by the British government after the Kristallnacht events.
The report was printed by the Refugee Children's Movement headed by Lord Gorell, and it includes, among other things, photographs of the children, general information about the organization assisting refugees from Germany and Czechoslovakia, the children's transport operations, the camps and the various committees in England involved in the operation, information about the children's health, education, statistical data about the number of children smuggled out of Germany, sorted according to the countries in which they were resettled, their religion, their parents' occupations and more; diary entries of children during their stay in England, a financial report, and more.
[1], 24, [1] pp, 24.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Library stamps. Bookplate with dedication.
Not in OCLC.
Provenance: collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
