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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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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 |
| Analysis |
kindertransport, invasion, refugee, exile, ex pat, children, war, fleeing, poland, germany, hitler, nazi, refuge, england, foster family, memoir, biography, autobiography, jewish, judaism, holocaust, genocide, migration, emigration, identity, nationalism, heritage, kindness, generosity, charity, philanthropy, survival, loss, nonfiction |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Milton, Edith.
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| SUBJECT |
Milton, Edith fast |
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Jews, German -- England -- Biography
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Jewish children -- England -- Biography
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Refugee children -- England -- Biography
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Jewish refugees -- England -- Biography
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Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- England
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England
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Jews -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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Children
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Jewish children
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Jewish refugees
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Jews
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Jews, German
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Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
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Refugee children
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Vluchtelingen.
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Kinderen.
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Joden.
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England
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226529486 |
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0226529487 |
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1281965979 |
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9781281965974 |
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0226529479 |
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9780226529479 |
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0226529460 |
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9780226529462 |
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