Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6 (2003)
Zionism. It is a very shady area. So, I think some people are
just glad of an opportunity to be able to validly attack Jews.
I don't think they even know that that is what they do either,
quite a lot of it is unconscious.
Anne Karpf has argued that your play Kindertransport marks a
turning point in dealing with Jewishness in Britain: "Until
very recently, the second generation of both survivors and
refugees has followed in the footsteps of the first -
deferential, mute, acutely sensitive to the British culture of
embarassment [...], so perhaps it's not surprising that the
psychosocial effects of the Holocaust only really came into
public view with Diane Samuels's recent Kindertransport" (245).1
Do you think that the success of Kindertransport was connected
with a growing readiness within British society in the 1990s
to consider the traumatisation of the second generation of the
Holocaust victims?
Read more about Kindertransport
I think that it probably starts with the Kinder, the readiness
of the Kinder themselves to acknowledge their histories. And I
think it follows from there. The father of a friend of mine
was on the Kindertransport, which is how I heard about it. And
I heard about it around the time of the fifty-year-reunion in
1989. The organisation was set up by this woman Bertha
Leverton in this country to bring everyone together and have a
celebration. And this organisation hadn't really existed
before that, it arose out of this anniversary. So the Kinder
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