- Summary
- What do a 75-year-old Los Angeles based rocket engineer and an eleven-year-old schoolgirl from Austria have in common? Not much at first glance, but Arthur and Lilly influenced each other's lives in a fateful way. In 1939, Arthur's Jewish parents sent their son abroad on a so-called Kindertransport ("children's transport"), hoping to save him from the Holocaust. The separation is a traumatic experience for the ten-year-old. Although he is rescued - from Austria via France to the United States - his family is murdered by the Nazis. He never sees them again. Sixty-five years later: during a visit to his parents' former apartment in Vienna, Austria, Arthur Kern meets eleven-year-old Lilly Maier. A decisive encounter for both of them, which not only shapes Lilly's further life but also leads to Arthur receiving a long-lost legacy from his parents. A moving tale of two lives that fatefully cross paths, and an immensely knowledgeable insight into an unknown Holocaust story: the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children to America on a Kindertransport.--Publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Arthur und Lilly. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Maier, Lilly, 1992- author.
- Published
- Green Bay, WI : TitleTown Publishing, [2023]
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna
France
United States
California
Los Angeles
Autriche
Vienne
États-Unis
Californie
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rotermund, Dominique, translator.
- Notes
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First published in German as "Arthur und Lilly" by Heyne (Münich, 2018).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
