Pearls of childhood : a unique childhood memoir of life in wartime Britain in the shadow of the Holocaust
Gissing, Vera2007
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In June 1939, shortly before her 11th birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain. Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary. In 'Pearls Of Childhood' she provides a powerful and moving account of her extraordinary circumstances.
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London : Robson, 1994.
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176 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
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Originally published: New York: St. Martin's, 1988.
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9781861059864 (pbk)1861059868 (pbk)
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941'.004924
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English
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24734
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