EXILE
Subtitle: A MEMOIR OF 1939
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: September 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780814208083
Subjects: Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Refugees; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - Holocaust; Historical - General; Holocaust; Austria; Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Refugees, Jewish; Schneider, Bronka; World War, 1939-1945
Description: Bronka Schneider and her husband, Joseph, were two of the thirty thousand Austrian Jews admitted as refugees to Great Britain between March 1938 and 2 September 1939. It was not until 1960, however, that Schneider wrote her memoir about the year she spent as a housekeeper, with Joseph as butler, in a Scottish castle.

The editors have divided this memoir into chapters, adding headlines from the London Times as epigraphs. These headlines, reporting the escalating events of World War II, are in stark contrast to daily activities of the residents of this isolated region of Scotland. A commentary by Erika Bourguignon provides historical, political and cultural background of this period.