Child of Our Time A Young Girl's Flight from the Holocaust

by David, Ruth L.

• ISBN13: 9781860647895
• ISBN10: 1860647898
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-13
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

This book tells the profound and inspirational story of a girl who was plucked from deep rural Germany after witnessing the horror of Kristallnacht and her familys eviction from its village. Ruth L. David was sent to England as part of the Kindertransportone of the few routes to safety and survival for many children who would lose their parents in the Holocaust. This story tells of her subsequent life in an orphanage, and her enduring and moving struggles.

Author Biography

Ruth L. David lived in England from 1939-1992 as a teacher of modern languages. She now lives in Ames, Iowa.

Table of Contents

Pictures	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
1 From a small town in Germany	1	(10)
2 The drive to emigrate	11	(7)
3 To school in Höchst	18	(5)
4 At home in Fränkisch-Crumbach	23	(6)
5 The cigar factory	29	(7)
6 Mina	36	(4)
7 Kristallnacht in Fränkisch-Crumbach	40	(6)
8 To the big city: Mannheim	46	(6)
9 The Kindertransport	52	(7)
10 Tynemouth	59	(10)
11 Wailing siren on a quiet Sunday: war	69	(4)
12 The matrons of Vienna and their charges	73	(9)
13 The Priory School, Tynemouth	82	(6)
14 Isolation hospital	88	(6)
15 Windermere	94	(11)
16 Adolescence in Windermere	105	(11)
17 French connections	116	(7)
18 Gurs, Rivesaltes and le Camp des Milles	123	(5)
19 Oakburn School	128	(10)
20 The final truth	138	(9)
21 End of war, end of childhood	147	(8)
22 Epilogue 1: survivors in the Diaspora	155	(6)
23 Epilogue 2: Germany	161