Kindertransport (Nick Hern Books) [Paperback]

Diane Samuels (Author)

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Series: Nick Hern Books | Publication Date: September 2000

The best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships.--Guardian.

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About the Author

Diane Samuels was born in 1960 in Liverpool, England. She studied history at the University of Cambridge, then continued her training as a drama teacher at Goldsmith’s College in London. This led to teaching for five years in secondary schools in the city of London.

Since leaving the teaching profession, Diane Samuels has devoted herself to writing. Among her plays for adult audiences are Watch Out for Mister Stork and Chalk Circle. She has also written a number of children’s theatre plays, including Forever and Ever, One Hundred Million Footsteps, How to Beat a Giant, and The Bonekeeper which was short-listed for the W.H. Smith Award for plays for children. Diane Samuels resides in London with her husband, writer and journalist Simon Garfield, and their two sons.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1854592270
• ISBN-13: 978-1854592279
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,923,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Saving Eva, October 26, 2009

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This review is from: Kindertransport (Nick Hern Books) (Paperback)

Kindertransport is a moving drama of the effects of the transport of a Jewish girl from Germany to Britain, requiring her separation from her parents. In the present of the play, the girl Eva is a grown woman, a mother herself, contemplating a more normal separation from her own daughter. Her emotions are complicated by her memories of her past. The play is about Jewish identity, the difficult moral choices facing a Jewish parent in the late 1930s in Germany, what it means to "save" your child, and mothers and daughters. Well worth reading or assigning in a high school or college class in Holocaust literature.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to find Play - Found, December 16, 2008

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Randy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kindertransport (Nick Hern Books) (Paperback)

It was great to find this hard to find play so easily. First rate.

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary, June 10, 2008

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This review is from: Kindertransport (Nick Hern Books) (Paperback)

This DVD was captivating. I am a mother of young children, so my eyes weren't dry from start to finish. The heart of those poor children as they watched their parents disappear, some forever, from their line of sight as the train left the station... the faith and utter selfless love of families to give their own into the hands of others so that they might live... and the compassion of a country that accepted the lost... It is all here in this extraordinary story of human endurance.