Arthur and Lilly: The Girl and the Holocaust Survivor

By Lilly Maier

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955047308
• ISBN13: 9781955047302
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Titletown Publishing, LLC
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"