Join us as Julian Borger discusses his newly published book, I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust.
This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who fled the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents. In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements 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.
From a Viennese radio shop to the Shanghai ghetto, internment camps and family homes across Britain, the deep forests and concentration camps of Nazi Germany, smugglers saving Jewish lives in Holland, an improbable French Resistance cell, and a redemptive story of survival in New York, Borger unearths the astonishing journeys of the children at the hands of fate, their stories of trauma and the kindness of strangers.
KTA members may join this talk live. Soon after, it will be available to view online.