Child of Our Time
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Child of Our Time

A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust

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Child of Our Time

A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust

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Plucked from the deepest rural Germany, after witnessing the horror of "Kristallnacht" and her family's eviction from its village, Ruth David was sent to England as part of "Kindertransport", one of the few routes to safety and survival for so many children who were to lose their parents in the Holocaust. But survival at what price? As a suspicious "enemy alien" in England at the outbreak of war with little English and few friends, Ruth grew up in loneliness, under the brutal eye of two Viennese ladies who ran the refugee hostel where she lived. The months of war crawled by, and the hostel gradually turned into an orphanage, as the news from the camps first trickled and then poured in. Here is David's profoundly human story, that of a small girl growing into a teenager caught in the vortex of one of the history's greatest horrors.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2003
ISBN
9780857711298
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Holocaust History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Pictures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1. From a small town in Germany
  6. 2. The drive to emigrate
  7. 3. To school in Höchst
  8. 4. At home in FrÀnkisch-Crumbach
  9. 5. The cigar factory
  10. 6. Mina
  11. 7. Kristallnacht in FrÀnkisch-Crumbach
  12. 8. To the big city: Mannheim
  13. 9. The Kindertransport
  14. 10. Tynemouth
  15. 11. Wailing siren on a quiet Sunday: war
  16. 12. The matrons of Vienna and their charges
  17. 13. The Priory School, Tynemouth
  18. 14. Isolation Hospital
  19. 15. Windemere
  20. 16. Adolescence in Windermere
  21. 17. French connections
  22. 18. Gurs, Rivesaltes and le Camp des Milles
  23. 19. Oakburn School
  24. 20. The final truth
  25. 21. End of war, end of childhood
  26. Epilogue 1: survivors in the Diaspora
  27. Epilogue 2: Germany
  28. Plates