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Goodbye Berlin - The Biography of Gerald Wiener (Paperback)
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Goodbye Berlin - The Biography of Gerald Wiener (Paperback)
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The 24th of March, 1939, was a poignant day for twelve-year-old
Gerald Wiener. He was on a train pulling out of Berlin and he was
on his way to the UK to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. He was
one of the thousands of unaccompanied children saved by the
Kindertransport. Looked after by two sisters in Oxford, his
abilities as a scholar became apparent and from an early age he was
set on the road to academic achievement. There followed a
distinguished career as a research scientist in Edinburgh, where he
made a genetic discovery that received international recognition.
His research department was a centre of excellence and members of
his team went on to make an astonishing breakthrough in genetics,
the cloning of Dolly the sheep. During his career Gerald was also
in demand to assist agricultural development in China, India, the
secretive North Korea and many other countries, and his trips
during these years are full of incident and fascinating human and
social insights. It was while he was on a postdoctoral fellowship
in the USA that he discovered he had a large family in California.
He had known nothing of them as his mother and father had parted
when he was only two years old. His aunt and stepmother gave him
compelling accounts of their escapes from Hitler, via Shanghai, and
life under the Japanese during the War. Their stories, and that of
Gerald himself, are amazing tales of resilience and triumph over
adversity. This book shows how one man's life and achievements
mirror the great events of the second half of the twentieth century
and the opening years of the new millennium.
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