I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | 
pickThis book was so much more in depth than I expected. In an effort to understand his father‘s suicide (his father was sent through an ad to a family in England at age of 11) the author dug deep & retraced the fates of both the children in the adverts & their families. For me his journey elicited contradictory responses in that it was both fascinating & heartbreaking. #NF Highly recommend.
In Mark Twain‘s biography by Ron Chernov, the author gives extensive attention & coverage to Twain‘s eight months in Vienna.
I had no idea that 20,000 Jewish refugees from Vienna traveled to Shanghai to escape the Nazis.But in 1941 the Nazi‘s arrived in the face of the notorious Colonial Josef Meisinger, the “Butcher of Warsaw.”His ideas for the solution of the “Jewish problem” scandalized the Japanese, despite the fact that they committed atrocities themselves. Instead they created a 3/4 square mile ghetto fie the Jews,where they were starved & exposed to typhoid.
Beautiful tribute to these children, their parents who sent them to safety, & those in Britain who took them into their homes.
My library hold came in today. Sadly enough Ruth Hargrove wrote this in 2020 during the first Trump administration. She was trying to stop deportations of some Cameroonians because they would probably be killed” if returned to their country in the midst of a brutal evil conflict”(8). #ranttime
pickPart memoir, part history tracing the kids whose parents advertised their children to be taken in by British households in 1938. They originated in Vienna, and each of the stories told had such different paths throughout their lives. It‘s heartbreaking, but the biggest impact is thinking of the parents who knew that sending their children to complete strangers in a different country was the best decision they could make to keep them safe.
