I seek a kind person : my father, seven children and the adverts that helped them escape the Holocaust / Julian Borger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borger, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borger, Julian--Family.

Borger, Julian.

Borger, Robert, 1927-1983--Childhood and youth.

Borger, Robert.

Holocaust survivors--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Holocaust survivors.

Jewish children in the Holocaust--Great Britain.

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

World War, 1939-1945--Children--Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : John Murray, 2024.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the Robert J. & Thelma E. Gill book fund.

ISBN:

9781399803311

139980331X

OCLC:

1455102825