Kerry's Children
An account of the tumults of a Jewish woman's life during and after World War II is related in this powerful autobiography. Beginning with her childhood struggle to protect her younger siblings from the terrors of Nazi Germany, her story follows her harrowing escape to Britain via the Kindertransport, her new life with foster parents in Wales, and her efforts to establish a family as an adult. The tale provides an impassioned look at the difficulty of her life and times, vividly portraying the horrors of the German air raids, the instability of life during a premature and unhappy first marriage, and the heartrending search for surviving Jewish family in Austria, Israel, and the United States.
Ellen Davis was born Karry Wertheim in 1929 in a small German village near Kassel, where her Jewish family had lived since 1760. This autobiography tells the harrowing story of Ellen's struggle to protect her younger brothers and sisters (her 'children') from the terrors of life in 1930s Germany. Beaten by the Gestapo. forced from their home, attacked by the Hitler Youth, the children took refuge in an orphanage, which was itself attacked on Kristallnacht. Ellen was sent to Britain via the Kindertransport, escaping the Nazis, but not from her family.
Adopted by a childless couple from Swansea, her new home was far from perfect. Their house was destroyed in the three-night Blitz of the town and, later, she experiences difficulties in her first marriage. But with a son and a daughter of her own, she found happiness in a new relationship. And in later life she has visited Germany, Australia, Israel, the US and Latvia, meeting surviving relatives, and discovering the heart-rending fate of her family in Riga.
Ellen Davis tells her story simply and honestly. In recent years she has given many interviews about her life and spoken about it especially to young people - determined that future generations are made aware of what happens when intolerance is given free rein.
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9781854113719
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Non-Fiction
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Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd
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159
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$13.95
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Davis, Ellen
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11/30/2006
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In Print
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Paperback
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English
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Height: 8.25 Inches (US)
Width: 5.5 Inches (US)
Thickness: 0.75 Inches (US)
Unit Weight: 0.46 Pounds (US)
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