I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.

In 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 Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and...