"Kindertransport"
by Diane Samuels
Synopsis:
"Kindertransport" is the poignant story of seven-year-old Eva
Schlesinger who, in 1938, was put aboard a train with other Jewish
children and evacuated from Nazi Germany in a little-known rescue
operation called the kindertransport. She is taken in and raised
by an English woman. Torn between her German heritage and her desire
to wipe the kindertransport experience from her memory, Eva tries to
become "English" herself. Based upon autobiographic accounts from
kindertransport children, this play focuses on Eva at four points in
her life. We are witness to the rainbow of emotions encountered by
Eva as she tries to deal with her families and herself while
burdened by the painful past which was chosen for her.
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