{"product_id":"i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-2","title":"I Seek a Kind Person","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Profound, ele\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egiac and fascinating . . . I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compelling' \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e, BOOK OF THE WEEK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Terrifying and enthralling'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e ALAN RUSBRIDGER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A touching, fascinating tribute to a father' \u003ci\u003eLITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1938, before Kindertransport, Jewish parents in Vienna took out adverts in the \u003ci\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e asking for people to take in their children - a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save them from the Nazis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEighty-three years later, Julian Borger discovers an advert for an 'intelligent boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family'. It was his father, Robert. Like almost everything about his childhood, Robert had kept this a secret, until he took his own life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting with nothing but the adverts, Borger traces the remarkable stories of his father, the other advertised children and their families. From a Viennese radio shop to the Shanghai ghetto, internment camps and family homes across Britain, forests and concentration camps in Germany, smugglers saving Jewish lives in Holland, an improbable French Resistance cell, and a redemptive story of survival in New York, he unearths the astonishing journeys and legacies of children left in the hands of fate - and at the mercy of other people's kindness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Seek a Kind Person\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping story of grief, inheritance, courage and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping addition to the literature on inherited trauma' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Incredible . . . and so beautifully told'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHADLEY FREEMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49768290713944,"sku":"9781399803311","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/i-seek-a-kind-person-my-father-seven-children-and-the-adverts-that-helped-them-escape-the-holocaust-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}