Kindertransport at L.A. Theatre Works

- Diane Samuel.

Authors

• Diane Samuels
• Guy Sherman

Between 1938 and the outbreak of World War II, thousands of Jewish children living in Germany were sent to Great Britain on the Kindertransport to adoptive, foreign parents. This move saved them from the concentration camps their biological parents would soon face. Diane Samuels' play offers deep insight into themes of abandonment, identity, survivors' guilt, and the effects of a traumatic past on those nearest to us. The story follows Eva, a nine-year old Kinder, and the effect her mother's fateful decision had on a generation of women.