{"product_id":"i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-paperback","title":"I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts That Helped Them Escape the Holocaust - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulian Borger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the \u003ci\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e83 years later, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003ejournalist Julian Borger comes across the ad that saved his father, Robert, from the Nazis. Robert had kept this a secret, like almost everything else about his traumatic Viennese childhood, until he took his own life. Drawn to the shadows of his family's past and starting with nothing but a page of newspaper ads, Borger traces the remarkable stories of his father, the other advertised children, and their families, each thrown into the maelstrom of a world at war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a Viennese radio shop to the Shanghai ghetto, internment camps and family homes across Britain, the deep forests and concentration camps of Nazi Germany, smugglers saving Jewish lives in Holland, an improbable French Resistance cell, and a redemptive story of survival in New York, Borger unearths the astonishing journeys of the children at the hands of fate, their stories of trauma and the kindness of strangers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulian Borger \u003c\/b\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e's World Affairs Editor, based in Washington. He covered the Bosnian war for the BBC and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and returned to the Balkans to report on the Kosovo conflict in 1999. He has also served as the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e's Middle East correspondent and its Washington Bureau Chief. Borger was part of the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism, for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. He was also in the team awarded the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal and the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award in the UK. He won the One World Media Press Award in 2016 for a feature story on the investigation of war crimes in Syria. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Other Press in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.32 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288458969273,"sku":"9781635424287","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/Zgso8aNpYB9781635424287.webp?v=1779767320","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}