Exile: A Memoir of 1939

by 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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814208088
• ISBN13: 9780814208083
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"