"In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. Eighty-three y...

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1. Verfasser:	Borger, Julian (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London John Murray 2024
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1938-1945 Rettung Juden Judenverfolgung Wien Großbritannien Borger, Julian / Family Borger, Robert / 1927-1983 / Childhood and youth Jewish children in the Holocaust / Austria / Vienna Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Austria / Vienna World War, 1939-1945 / Children / Great Britain Holocaust survivors / Biography Holocaust survivors / Great Britain / Biography Jewish children in the Holocaust / Great Britain Biographies
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Zusammenfassung:	"In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. Eighty-three years later, Guardian journalist Julian Borger comes across the advert that saved his father, Robert, from the Nazis. Robert had kept this a secret, like almost everything else about his traumatic Viennese childhood, until he took his own life. Drawn to the shadows of his family's past and starting with nothing but a page of newspaper adverts, Borger traces the remarkable stories of his father, the other advertised children and their families, each thrown into the maelstrom of a world at war. From a Viennese radio shop to the Shanghai ghetto, internment camps and family homes across Britain, the deep forests and concentration camps of Nazi Germany, smugglers saving Jewish lives in Holland, an improbable French Resistance cell, and a redemptive story of survival in New York, Borger unearths the astonishing journeys of the children at the hands of fate, their stories of trauma and the kindness of strangers. I Seek a Kind Person is a gripping family memoir of grief, courage and hope, connecting us with multiple generations, distant continents and the hidden histories of our almost unimaginable past" -- Publisher's description
Beschreibung:	285 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9781399803304 9781399806732