The tiger in the attic : memories of the Kindertransport and growing up English / Edith Milton
- Author
- Milton, Edith
- Published
- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Bristol : University Presses Marketing - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 volume)
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- Contents
- Getting there -- Eggs -- The second year of the war -- Leeds -- Down in the forest -- Mutti and Pappi -- The tiger in the attic -- Jesus and me -- Dried eggs and puberty -- War and peace -- Saint Bride's -- Leaving -- Ocean crossing -- Chamber music -- Understanding Mother -- Weather.
- Summary
- In 1939, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, seven-year-old Edith Milton (then Edith Cohn) and her sister Ruth left Germany by way of the Kindertransport, the program which gave some 10,000 Jewish children refuge in England. The two were given shelter by a jovial, upper-class British foster family with whom they lived for the next seven years. Edith chronicles these transformative experiences of exile and good fortune in The Tiger in the Attic, a touching memoir of growing up as an outsider in a strange land. In this illuminating chronicle, Edith describes how she struggled to fit in an.
- Subject(s)
- Milton, Edith
- 1939-1945
- Jews, German—England—Biography
- Jewish children—England—Biography
- Refugee children—England—Biography
- Jewish refugees—England—Biography
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)—England
- World War, 1939-1945—Children—England
- Jews—United States—Biography
- Juifs allemands—Angleterre—Biographies
- Enfants juifs—Angleterre—Biographies
- Enfants réfugiés—Angleterre—Biographies
- Réfugiés juifs—Angleterre—Biographies
- Kindertransports (Opérations de sauvetage)—Angleterre
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945—Enfants—Angleterre
- Juifs—États-Unis—Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY—Historical
- HISTORY—Holocaust
- Children
- Jewish children
- Jewish refugees
- Jews
- Jews, German
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Refugee children
- Vluchtelingen
- Kinderen
- Joden
- England
- United States
- World War (1939-1945)
- Other Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780226529486 (electronic bk.)
0226529487 (electronic bk.)
1281965979
9781281965974
0226529479 (pbk.)
9780226529479 (pbk.)
0226529460 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226529462 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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