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The Tiger in the Attic : Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
The Tiger in the Attic Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
Author: Edith Milton
In 1939, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, seven-year-old Edith Milton (then Edith Cohn) and her sister Ruth left Germany by way of the Kindertransport, the program which gave some 10,000 Jewish children refuge in England. The two were given shelter by a jovial, upper-class British foster family with whom they lived for the next seven y...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226529462
ISBN-10: 0226529460
Publication Date: 10/15/2005
Pages: 256
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This writer has a beautiful way with the written word. Not only was the subject of Jewish children sent from Germany to England during WWII a fascinating one, Edith Milton brought warmth, humor and insight to her subject.
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