I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger

'A MOVING ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE-CHANGING IMPACT OF ACTS OF KINDNESS'
MARTIN SIXSMITH, author of Philomena

August, 1938. As the Nazis took control of Vienna, the Borgers placed an advert for their son, Robert, in the Manchester Guardian. This was the only hope for many Jewish parents of giving their child a future.

It was only after his father's suicide in 1983 that Julian began to learn of Robert's past. The discovery of the advert, eighty years later, sparked an extraordinary global detective story, unearthing his father's hidden trauma, and the fates of the other advertised children.

While their lives all started in Vienna, their journeys took them across the globe in an astonishing array of consequences. To the forests of Germany in 1945, where one pursued the remnants of the defeated SS. To wartime Shanghai, where a girl found heaven only to be incarcerated by the Japanese. To British family homes, to a heroic stand with the French Resistance, and into the horror of the concentration camps.

Interweaving the search for his father's past with seven remarkable lives disrupted by war, Julian Borger demonstrates the unpredictable consequences of war, the legacy of family trauma and the kindness of strangers.

Genres: Nonfiction - History - Holocaust - Biography - Jewish - Memoir
Condition: Very good
Published: 2024 by John Murray. 
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9781399806732
Weight: 310g