Kindertransport – immigration, erasure of identity, and generational gaps
"My suffering is monumental; yours is personal."
Warning: this is not exactly a review. It may contain swearing and material that may be triggering to some people. It may be more of a catharsis that had an affair with a review. Anyway. I went to see a play and at the time of writing this post I've just gotten back from it. In short, the play fucked me up in several monumental ways. The themes are rather relevant, I found, to the world's current state of affairs. Don't worry, I won't get political.
For those unaware (as I was of the fact that it had a specific name), The Kindertransport was a British rescue mission that took place at the beginning of WWII. Over 10,000 Jewish children from various countries were placed in British foster homes. One synopsis reads:
Helga and Werner Schlesinger are parents faced with the difficult choice of keeping their beloved daughter Eva in Germany with them, or letting her...