A visit to the English Theater Frankfurt with the English advanced class: The play “Kindertransport”
On January 29th the English advanced class (E-Phase) led by Mrs Trikic went to see the play “Kindertransport” at the English Theatre in Frankfurt.
What is the play about?
During the Kindertransport, 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 and families to save them from certain death.
The play tells the story of how nine-year-old Eva, a German Jewish girl, is sent by her parents on the Kindertransport to start a new life with a foster family in Britain just before the outbreak of World War II. More than forty years later, she has changed her name to Evelyn and denied her roots. When her own daughter discovers old letters and photos in the attic, she is forced to confront the truth about who she really is and to reveal a dark secret that she has done everything to keep hidden.
Kindertransport depicts the agony of separating a child from her parents and wrestles with the consequences of that choice that, while an act of sacrifice, also wreaks devastating results.
(play summary taken from the website of the English Theatre Frankfurt)
Review by the students Hannah Zurwehme, Noah Hügen, Emily Hopfenmüller:
