The tiger in the attic : memories of the Kindertransport and growing up English /
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 fos...
| Основен автор: | Milton, Edith. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago, Ill. : Bristol :
University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor],
2006.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260188 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Tiger in the attic. |
| Резюме: |
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 years. Edith chronicles these transformative experiences of exile and good fortune in The Tiger in the Attic, a touching memoir of growing up as an outsider in a strange land. In this illuminating chronicle, Edith describes how she struggled to fit in an. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| ISBN: |
9780226529486 0226529487 1281965979 9781281965974 0226529479 9780226529479 0226529460 9780226529462 |