Child of Our Time by Ruth L David

Child of Our Time by Ruth L David

Plucked from the deepest rural Germany, after witnessing the horror of "Kristallnacht" and her family's eviction from its village, Ruth David was sent to England as part of "Kindertransport", one of the few routes to safety and survival for so many children who were to lose their parents in the Holocaust. But survival at what price? As a suspicious "enemy alien" in England at the outbreak of war with little English and few friends, Ruth grew up in loneliness, under the brutal eye of two Viennese ladies who ran the refugee hostel where she lived. The months of war crawled by, and the hostel gradually turned into an orphanage, as the news from the camps first trickled and then poured in. Here is David's profoundly human story, that of a small girl growing into a teenager caught in the vortex of one of the history's greatest horrors.

"chilling to read.. (Ruth David's) book is a valuable addition to the memoirs of the Holocaust." -Susan Merskey, London Jewish Community News "The extraordinary story of Ruth David's childhood. Her experiences of adolescence, tainted by the bitterness that she had felt at being raised in a country where she didn't speak the language, and received no warmth from those directly responsible for her, underpin her account". -Rachel Harris, Jewish Chronicle (17th October 2003) "tells the moving story of a small girl growing into a teenager caught in the vortex of one of history's greatest horrors." -Rabbi John Rayner, The Methodist Recorder (18/12/2003)

Ruth David lived in England from 1939 to 1992 as a teacher of modern languages. She now lives in the USA.

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ISBN 13	9781860647895
ISBN 10	1860647898
Title	Child of Our Time
Author	Ruth L David
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2003-07-25
Number of pages	272
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