In “Terror, trauma and Triumph”, Author Caroline Sharples, uses a testimonies and stories of the children in the kindertransport and also he reunions of the members of the kindertrasport to show the experiences of what it was like to leave everything you knew behind for the idea of a safer life. The title gives away the whole meaning behind this work, the terror, trauma and triumph of the kindertransport. This work was published in History today in 2004. This work was assessed on the web on October 14th, on history in context.
In 1938 was the year that everything changed for the people under the Nazi control, a young Jewish man named Herschel Grunspan, shot and killed a German diplomat, Ernst Vom Rath. In revenge, the Nazi’s destroyed Jewish…show more content… Olga Drunker, remembers the negative feeling that hung over the train as they left the Nazi controlled land. She claimed they guards sounded like “snarling dogs”. Herbert Levy, remembers shouting down with Hitler after they were away from the boarder. Bertha Leverton remembered it being an awful experience. She and her siblings old enough to work were sent away to work and she often feared for her sisters safety, where she might be abused by her uncle. The uncle that took all the kids in. Vera Gissing, she blocked out all the horrors that had happened on the train and clung to her roots. She shared her experience with finding out her cousins were given a seat on the kindertransport, but her excitement was soon shot down because war broke out and their train was not allowed to leave, she later learns her cousins did not make it. She says in her diary, “to me victory is not yet complete. Laura Selo admits she had to write really happy letters to her parents so that they wouldn’t worry them more than they had to be. Bertha Levert in is the main organizer of the kindertransport reunions and keeps many o testimonies to what happened in the kindertransport; In all the stories, the children emphasized on the adventure and the excitement and happiness of newfound safety. Britain was believed to offer a much higher level of living, in both the way of life and money. This excitement was often found to