Once they had a country : two teenage refugees in the Second World War / Muriel R. Gillick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillick, Muriel R., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish children--Germany--Biography.

Jewish children.

Jewish refugees--Germany--Biography.

Jewish refugees.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Garfunkel, Hans.

Wulff, Ilse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Muriel Gillick draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II. Once They Had a Country conveys well what it was like to establish a new life in a foreign country-over and over again and in constant fear for one's life. The work tells of the extraordinary experiences of the author's parents in Europe and demonstrates how citizens and the governments of Belgium, France, Switzerland, Brazil, America, China, and postwar Germany treated refugees. This sto

Contents:

Introduction

Becoming refugees

The alarm sounds

From burger to beggar

Refugees in the free zone

Lord of the flies in reverse

"The lifeboat is full"

What they were running from

Transmigrants

Refuge in Shanghai

Post-traumatic stress

Brazilian detour

"Give me your tired, your poor".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8399-9

OCLC:

772845358