![]() ![]() Eventually, after leaving school at 16, ``Ollie'' was happier as a live-in nursemaid for a warmhearted family until she could join her parents, after the war, in New York. Her hosts were various: she moved from a miserable first accommodation, where she picked up lice, to the home of wealthy family friends, who never quite made her feel welcome a fairly satisfactory boarding school, closed for lack of students, was followed by a stay with a dogmatically Christian couple. ![]() Beginning in 1932 with a vignette of her family of four and their servants moving into the fine Stuttgart house her father (a children's book publisher) built for his family, Drucker briefly reviews the mounting restrictions of the prewar years on her family before focusing on the six years after her escape, in 1939, as one of 10,000 children shipped to Britain. An autobiographical account-compelling in its authentic details-of the author's WW II years as a Jewish refugee in England. ![]()
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