The Kindertransport: Contesting MemoryJennifer Craig-Norton
The discourse to date on the Kindertransport initiative of the 1930s has, as Jennifer Craig-Norton points out, often been framed in terms of the triumph of British values in the face of tyranny and murder (p. 10). It is an uncomplicated story of rescue. British homes threw open their doors to Jewish...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 104-106 |
| Review of: | The Kindertransport (Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019) (Privilege, John)
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| Summary: | The discourse to date on the Kindertransport initiative of the 1930s has, as Jennifer Craig-Norton points out, often been framed in terms of the triumph of British values in the face of tyranny and murder (p. 10). It is an uncomplicated story of rescue. British homes threw open their doors to Jewish children fleeing persecution and certain death. The narrative remains one of altruism and salvation, an absolute historical good, as well as a prism through which Britain’s response to the current refugee crisis in Europe might be viewed (p. 12). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab009 |