Kerry's Children
Published on 15. October 2014
160 pages
978-1-78172-212-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ellen Davis was born in 1929 in the small German village of Hoof. Her Jewish family had lived there since 1760 but its peaceful existence was shattered when Hitler came to power and German Jews were persecuted. Ellen's autobiography tells the harrowing story of her childhood struggle to protect her younger brothers and sisters from the terrors of life in Nazi Germany and her escape to Swansea via the Kindertransport. This is also the moving story of Ellen's life in Britain, the difficulties of her first marriage and her love for her own Welsh children as she finds happiness in a new relationship. Meanwhile she continues to search for her German family and relatives in Australia, Israel and the US - a search which ends finally, heart-rendingly, in Riga in Latvia. Ellen Davis tells her story simply and honestly. In recent years she has given many interviews about her life and spoken about it especially to young people.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One. Germany
- Before
- Things Change
- School
- Fear
- Persecution
- The Orphanage
- Kristallnacht
- The Journey to Wales
- Part Two. Wales
- New Parents
- New Life
- Childhood in Wartime Swansea
- Growing Up
- Marriage
- Discovering Relatives
- New Beginnings
- Finding Papa
- Part Three. Rediscovery
- Rediscovery
- Reunion
- Journey to the Past
- Later Years
- Riga
- Colin
