Kindertransport (NHB Modern Plays)

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Teresa Eyring Executive Director Theatre Communications Group (TCG) AHO Conference, Miami, FL TCG is a national organization for theatre, based in New York.

When Eva arrives in London, speaking no English, and feeling very much abandoned, she is taken under the wing of Lil Miller. This play is also available as an A4 Edition, offering spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes. Renowned theatre company Shared Experience also revived the play to great acclaim for a regional tour in 2007.Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life. In 1939, at the start of the play’s earlier timeline, Helga sends her young daughter Eva to live in England. Kindertransport is based on the experiences of children who were allowed to leave Nazi Germany for England in 1938/39 and who were separated from their families, many of whom perished during the Holocaust. It's a refreshing change for a study guide to come from the pen of the person who created the text being studied.

When Evelyn was nine, her mother Helga sent her to live in England to keep her safe from Nazi persecution. 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.It was developed by staff, scholars, artists and volunteers overseen by Arnold Mittelman, founding NJTF President/Project Director, and by Dr. The play also focuses on the now assimilated and completely dislocated Eva’s alienation from her actual mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, and the discovery by Faith, Eva’s daughter, of her mother’s unspoken past. He interrogates her in English and is visibly annoyed when Eva responds in German, the only language she understands. Eva Schlesinger, daughter of Helga and Werner, is sent away to live with a foster carer in Manchester, England, temporarily until her parents find work and move to England too.