Exile: A Memoir of 1939

by Barbara Hill Rigney, Erika Bourguignon, BRONKA SCHNEIDER

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 a butler, in a Scottish castle.

Schneider tells of daily encounters--with her employers, the English lady and her husband, a retired British civil servant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814250084
• ISBN13: 9780814250082
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"