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I Seek a Kind Person - My Father, Six Children and the Adverts that Helped Save them from the Holocaust
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I Seek a Kind Person - My Father, Six Children and the Adverts that Helped Save them from the Holocaust
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'I look for an au pair for my girl, aged 14; well educated Jewess.'
'Who would give a home to a grammar school scholar, aged 14;
healthy, clever, very musical.' 'I seek a kind person who will
educate my intelligent boy, aged 11.' In 1938, Jewish families
under Nazi rule were scrambling to get their children out of the
Reich. Newspaper advertisements were one avenue of escape. Scores
of children were 'advertised' in the pages of the Manchester
Guardian, their virtues and skills extolled in brief. The right
words in the right order could mean the difference between life and
death. Reading these advertisements eighty-three years later, the
Guardian's Pulitzer prize-winning World Affairs Editor, Julian
Borger, found his surname and an address beneath it: 'Borger, 5/12
Hintzerstrasse, Vienna 3'. The address had been his grandparents',
the intelligent boy was his father, Robert. In I Seek A Kind
Person, Borger retraces his father's escape and survival, as well
as the remarkable stories of six other Viennese children who sought
and found sanctuary in the same way. Blending memoir and history
with investigative journalism, Borger returns to Vienna with his
grandparents' passports, emblazoned with swastikas and a 'J' for
Jew on the first page, to retrace their lives. In doing so, he
excavates the secrets of his own family history and its long
shadow.
General
Imprint: |
Two Roads Pub
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Julian Borger
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-399-80673-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-399-80673-4 |
Barcode: |
9781399806732 |
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