As Europe prepared for war, the newly-founded Stoatley Rough School began to shelter hundreds of traumatized Jewish children fleeing (usually alone) from Nazi persecution. Little Holocaust Survivors , based on dozens of original interviews, tells their stories, and the stories of the teachers and benefactors who created this refuge in a country house on a hillside in Surrey, donated by its philanthropic owner. Struggling against constant money problems, war-time deprivation, the occasional suspicion of locals and ...
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As Europe prepared for war, the newly-founded Stoatley Rough School began to shelter hundreds of traumatized Jewish children fleeing (usually alone) from Nazi persecution. Little Holocaust Survivors , based on dozens of original interviews, tells their stories, and the stories of the teachers and benefactors who created this refuge in a country house on a hillside in Surrey, donated by its philanthropic owner. Struggling against constant money problems, war-time deprivation, the occasional suspicion of locals and unfamiliarity with the English language, teachers and pupils endeavoured to hold their educational establishment together. As the Luftwaffe bombed London forty miles away, the inhabitants of Stoatley Rough did their best to focus on the values of equality, tolerance, music appreciation and hard work. Author Barbara Wolfenden (wife of one of the boys educated at Stoatley Rough) has interviewed many of the children (both 'Hut Boys' and 'Household Girls') from the school, and the book draws on their individual stories. It begins in Nazi Germany, where so many Jewish families were separated - often for ever - in their desperate attempts to survive, and continues with the experiences of those child refugees who found their way to England, and to Stoatley Rough. The varied cast of characters includes not only the children but also the German-Jewish feminist headmistress and the German teachers she brought with her, and the school's wealthy and zealous English benefactors, whose extraordinary efforts created some sort of order (often makeshift, sometimes eccentric) out of the chaos. In these extraordinary circumstances, the children grew into adults, and Barbara Wolfenden also follows their stories after Stoatley Rough, as they made their way in the world. Unique and intimate, the book is also a testimony to the modest power of trust, endurance and fellow-feeling in a time of loss and hardship.
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SIGNED. Inscribed and affectionately fully signed by the author on the full title page. As new and bright in like glossy dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Nicely illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. New and bright all around, gift quality.
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1846450535. First edition, first printing. HC, Greenwood World Publishing, 2008. DJ has some wrinkling at top back corner, and is in very good condition. Top corner of back cover is bumped and wrinkled. Bottom front edge of spine has a wrinkle.; 9.13 X 6.30 X 1.26 inches; 304 pages.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 311 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover, first printing with full number line, inscribed on title page by author to Edda, dust jacket with faint scratches, light brown covers with gilt lettering on spine like new, clean unmarked pages, tight binding; ownership label on blank endpage with name inked out. With photographs of the rooms at the school and of some of the children and of the adults when grown up. Shipped in bubble wrap with tracking. Four Shelf I-B
