Pearls of Childhood

Pearls of Childhood
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Publisher : Robson
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 1861059868
ISBN-13 : 9781861059864
Rating : 4/5 (864 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Pearls of Childhood by : Vera Gissing

Download or read book Pearls of Childhood written by Vera Gissing and published by Robson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1939, shortly before her eleventh birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain.Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died - her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived here ever since.The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated, encouraged Vera to go back to the diaries and letters from her parents that she had not touched for forty years, and in 'Pearls of Childhood' 'she provides a powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.


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