Amy Williams, at The Blogs

Jul 2, 2026, 3:30 PM

The dangers of misremembering the Kindertransport over 80 years on

Despite the Kinder’s own diverse experiences being more widely known in the UK and the fact that some of the Kinder’s voices have even been heard in parliament, and although scholars are continuously dispelling myths about the Kindertransport, some politicians often still paint a rosy...

May 13, 2026, 8:56 PM

AI and the Kindertransport: The stories behind the photos

Imagine a row of German officials or Gestapo guards standing in front of a steam train to the left, little Jewish children with suitcases and teddies in hand in the middle, and then a railing holding back parents with outstretched hands to the right. The...

Apr 29, 2026, 3:53 PM

The Trans-Siberian Kindertransport: From Austria to Russia, Japan, and America

Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese Ambassador to the UK, has shown his affection for British culture through his endearing bond with one of Britain’s most cherished icons – Paddington Bear. Paddington has become the ambassador’s mascot whilst visiting regional landmarks, sampling local produce, and most importantly,...

Apr 10, 2026, 6:11 PM

Holidaymakers and the Kindertransport

Some British holidaymakers in late 1938 and 1939 must have seen the Kindertransports arrive in Harwich. After recently receiving a postcard of Dovercourt from the boat jetty from Steven Derby (the son of a Kindertransportee and Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) member) I was inspired...

Feb 27, 2026, 1:34 AM

What was the Kindertransport? Part Two: Deportation

In the first part of this blog, we focused on the use of the term Kindertransport to mean rescue more broadly from 1934-1942. When the British Kindertransport came to a halt in September 1939 there was a final transport from the Netherlands to British shores...

Feb 26, 2026, 1:58 PM

What was the Kindertransport? Part One: Rescue

When we ask ourselves today “what is the Kindertransport” we often impose our limited present day understanding onto this historical term and event. The Kindertransport has long been regarded as the rescue of mainly Jewish children from Nazism to Britain after Kristallnacht and before the...

Feb 11, 2026, 5:02 AM

The babies of the Kindertransports

There are 23 and counting babies who journeyed on Kindertransports to Britain, according to the Kindertransport lists which I found at Yad Vashem in 2024. All these children were born in 1938 and travelled on Kindertransports in 1939. The youngest child I’ve found was just...

Jan 22, 2026, 2:32 AM

30th January, the Nazis, and the Kindertransport

My grandfather, passed away on 27th January which is now the date of International Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). I was born on 30th January, the day when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and the day when Hitler gave his Reichstag speech in 1939....

Jul 24, 2025, 11:31 PM

For Hanna: The first anniversary with your Kindertransport list

Eighty-six years ago, on July 25, 1939, Hanna Zack Miley boarded a Kindertransport from Nazi Germany to Britain. She did not know it then but she would never see her parents again. Last year, in October 2024, I found Hanna’s Kindertransport list in Yad Vashem’s...

Jun 25, 2025, 10:27 PM

Discoveries beyond the Kindertransport lists: The journeys on the ferries

When Jeremy Frankel reached out to me to ask if I had discovered his cousin’s Kindertransport list I did not know that we would soon be joining the dots of the Kinder’s train journeys with those of their ferry journeys and their arrival documents. Shortly...

About Me

Dr Amy Williams is the Kindertransport Scholar in Residence at the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR). Amy was a fellow at Yad Vashem where she discovered the Kindertransport lists. She is working with Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Yale University Press, and Camden House to produce new books on the history and memory of the Kindertransport.