Kindertransport

KINDERTRANSPORT
English-language play

By Diane Samuels

Kindertransport was a British rescue mission that took place at the beginning of the Second World War. Over 10,000 Jewish children from various countries were placed in British foster homes and families to save them from certain death.

The play tells the story of how nine-year-old Eva, a German-Jewish girl, is sent to England by her parents on one of the Kindertransports shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to start a new life with a foster family. Over forty years later, she has changed her name to Evelyn and denied her roots. When her own daughter discovers some old letters and photos in the attic, she is forced to face the truth about who she really is and reveal a dark secret she has done everything to hide.
Kindertransport shows us not only the necessity of rescue transports but also the agony of separating a child from its parents, with all its consequences.

The English Theatre Frankfurt is the largest English-language theater in continental Europe and has been guaranteeing first-class theater and international exchange for over 40 years.
For the first time, the Pasinger Fabrik invites the English Theatre Frankfurt with the play Kindertransport.

An event as part of the exhibition How we became what we are.