Other People's Houses

'First published 54 years ago and yet feels as timely as any book I've read this year' Observer

Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal.

For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people's houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working class Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly she succeeds and two years later her parents arrive; their visa allows them to work as domestic servants - a humiliation for which they must be grateful.

In Other People's Houses Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity and calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers.

„Publicata prima data acum 54 de ani si totusi se simte la fel de oportuna ca orice carte pe care am citit-o anul acesta” Observator La noua luni de la ocupatia nazista a Austriei, 600 de copii evrei s-au adunat la gara din Viena pentru a urca in primul transport Kinder cu destinatia Marea Britanie. Printre acestia se numara Lore Segal, in varsta de 10 ani. In urmatorii sapte ani, a trait ca refugiata in casele altor oameni, mutandu-se de la Levinei ortodocsi din Liverpool, la Hoopers cu fermitate din clasa muncitoare din Kent, la domnisoara Miss Douglas si sora ei. in Guildford.