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A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past. Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life... Between 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels' seminal play, Kindertransport, imagines the fate of one such child. Now widely considered a modern classic, Kindertransport has been read and studied the world over. Kindertransport won the 1992 Verity Bargate Award and was subsequently staged by the Soho Theatre Company at the Cockpit Theatre in London in 1993. It also won the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 1993. Since its premiere the play has been revived several times. Watford Palace Theatre staged it in 1996, in a production that transferred to the West End. Renowned theatre company Shared Experience also revived the play to great acclaim for a regional tour in 2007. This edition includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport. Kindertransport is a SET TEXT for GCSE English Literature (AQA) and AS/A-Level English Literature (WJEC). 'Desperately harrowing... searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human' - The Times 'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature... presented with emotional clarity and intense sympathy' - New Yorker 'Samuels has written the best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships' - Guardian Winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award Winner of the Verity Bargate Award

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PublisherNick Hern Books

ISBN-139781854595270

eBay Product ID (ePID)89479079

Product Key Features

Book TitleKindertransport

AuthorDiane Samuels

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicPlays

Publication Year2008

Number of Pages112 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height199mm

Item Width129mm

Item Weight135g

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Title_AuthorDiane Samuels

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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