Kurt Fuchel: Life of the Kindertransport

Microsystem
In the level of the microsystem, a child will experience immediate interaction with other people. In the beginning, the system is the child’s home, but as the ages it begins to involve more people. For Kurt Fuchel, his microsystem began when he was a child living in Vienna Austria. Fuchel’s birth parents represents his primary microsystem, they had a direct impact of Kurt’s life. “My parents were sort of middle - class people, and my father was a middle-level bank manager and my mother, a lady of leisure.... And it was, in many ways, a rather idyllic life. And I was indeed, sort of the center of the universe” (), according to Fuchel. However, his microsystem began to expand when he had to move to England and stay with his "foster parents," Percy and Mariam Cohen and their son John.

Mesosystem
The mesosystem levels are the interrelationships that find themselves among the child’s microsystem. The stronger the relationships are between the systems, then the more powerful the influence will be on the child’s development. After arriving to England, Fuchel’s foster parents...