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BL
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| Record Number
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692830
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| Doc. No
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b515019
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| Main Entry
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Fast, Vera K.,1929-
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| Title & Author
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Children's exodus : : a history of the Kindertransport /\ Vera K. Fast.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: I.B. Tauris ;New York :: Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,, c2011.
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| Page. NO
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xvii, 270 p., [8] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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1848855370 (hbk.)
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: 9781848855373 (hbk.)
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| Notes
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Formerly CIP.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Descent into darkness -- Exodus and arrival -- Strangers in your midst -- Evacuation and internment -- Crises, cries and lamentations -- The Orthodox experience -- Jewish Christian children -- Hidden children and camp survivors : the postwar refugees -- In later years -- Epilogue.
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| Abstract
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Based on interviews, journals, and articles, offers an in-depth look at the people and politics behind the rescue of nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied territories to Great Britain, as well as the postwar aftermath and attempts to reunite fragments of the Jewish community.
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Jewish refugees-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Kindertransports (Rescue operations)-- Great Britain.
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Refugee children-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Evacuation of civilians-- Europe.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.5318083
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| LC Classification
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DS135.E5F37 2011
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