Jennifer Craig-Norton’s impressive monograph, The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory, sweeps away the longstanding and prevailing narrative of the Holocaust-era rescue project known as the Kindertransport. According to that humanitarian narrative, the ten thousand mostly Jewish refugee children permitted to enter the United Kingdom in the period 1938–1940 were cared for by kind British strangers, closely supported by the well-intentioned organizations that brought them over from Europe, and grew up to become successful adults who gave back to their new nation. This version of the story foregrounds the fact that these children’s lives had been saved when so many other children were murdered in the Holocaust, and is marshalled as Britain’s model response to a refugee crisis. Using newly discovered archival sources weighed carefully against memory sources, Craig-Norton demonstrates that the real story is in fact much more complex than the uplifting national myth suggests.

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书评：The Kindertransport：竞赛记忆

詹妮弗·克雷格·诺顿（Jennifer Craig-Norton）令人印象深刻的专着《The Kindertransport：Contesting Memory》消除了大屠杀时代营救计划（Kindertransport）长期存在且占主导地位的叙述。根据这种人道主义的叙述，在1938年至1940年期间准许进入英国的一万名犹太难民儿童受到善良的英国陌生人的照料，并得到了将他们从欧洲带回来的好意组织的大力支持。成为成功的成年人，回馈新的民族。这个故事的版本预示着这样的事实，即当许多其他儿童在大屠杀中被谋杀时，这些儿童的生命得以挽救，并被编组为英国对难民危机的模范反应。使用新发现的档案资源仔细权衡内存资源，