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Jack-in-the-box / Renée Mosbacher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mosbacher, Renée, 1929- author.
- Series:
- My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series
- My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mosbacher, Renée, 1929---Biography.
- Mosbacher, Renée.
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 103 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- My voice : Renée Mosbacher
- Renée Mosbacher
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June of 2021, The Fed were awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for the My Voice Project, the highest possible accolade for a voluntary sector group.
- Summary:
- Renée's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Renée Mosbacher was born in Vienna and witnessed the growth of antisemitism in Austria and the horror of Kristallnacht. After a dangerous journey to England, she made her home there.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- My Voice Project
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 – My life in Vienna
- 2 – How things changed after the Anschluss
- 3 – Some people were very good to us
- 4 – Kristallnacht and SS leather uniforms
- 5 – The nightmare journey to England
- 6 – Feeling safe in London
- 7 – School life during the war and The Blitz
- 8 – The Amadeus String Quartet
- 9 – Working and meeting my first husband
- 10 – Family life with my second husband
- 11 – Renée Barron Catering
- 12 – My third husband: Spring in Autumn
- 13 – Antisemitism and the world today
- 14 – How the piano has always helped me
- 15 – Jack-in-the-box
- My Voice volunteers
- About The Fed Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- First published by The Fed in 2020.
- This edition first published by Manchester University Press in 2024.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed December 16, 2024.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781526186775
- 1526186772
- OCLC:
- 1458756544
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