I seek a kind person : my father, seven children and the adverts that helped them escape the Holocaust / Julian Borger.
By: Borger, Julian.
Publisher: London : Two Roads, 2024Description: 304 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781399803304 (hbk.) :; 1399803301 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Borger, Julian -- Family | Borger, Robert -- Childhood and youth | Holocaust survivors -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Great Britain | World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | Biography: general | Memoirs | European historyDDC classification: 940.5318092 Summary: 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.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | St Helens Library Adult Non-Fiction | 940.531 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400026324 |
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.