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

Borger, Julian, author

London : John Murray, 2024.

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

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

9781399803311 (pbk)

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D804.196

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