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Exile : a memoir of 1939 / Bronka Schneider ; edited with forewords by Erika Bourguignon and Barbara Hill Rigney.
LIBRA D804.196 .S34 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Bronka.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schneider, Bronka.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Immigrants.
- History.
- Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Refugees.
- Jewish refugees--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Immigrants--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Bronka Schneider and her husband, Joseph, were two of the thirty thousand Austrian Jews admitted as refugees to Great Britain between March 1938 and 2 September 1939. It was not until 1960, however, that Schneider wrote her memoir about the year she spent as a housekeeper, with Joseph as butler, in a Scottish castle. The editors have divided this memoir into chapters, adding headlines from the London Times as epigraphs. These headlines, reporting the escalating events of World War II, are in stark contrast to daily activities of the residents of this isolated region of Scotland. A commentary by Erika Bourguignon provides historical, political and cultural background of this period.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0814208088
- 0814250084
- OCLC:
- 39217780
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