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Other People's Houses A Novel

Autobiographical novel that relates the life of a Jewish child who is evacuated to England prior to World War II and moves to the United States in 1951 with hopes of becoming an author.

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  • "Autobiographical novel that relates the life of a Jewish child who is evacuated to England prior to World War II and moves to the United States in 1951 with hopes of becoming an author."@en
  • "Lore Segal tells in novelized form her life as a refugee in a variety of English households during the Second World War."
  • "The author recalls her childhood, spent in various English homes, after her escape from Nazi-conquered Austria."
  • "The author recalls her childhood, spent in various English homes, after her escape from Nazi-conquered Austria."@en
  • "With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survival On a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler’s increasingly alarming oppression. Temporarily housed at the Dover Court Camp on England’s east coast, Lore will find herself living in other people’s houses for the next seven years: the Orthodox Levines, the Hoopers, the working-class Grimsleys, and the wealthy Miss Douglas and Mrs. Dillon. Charged with the task of asking “the English people” to get her parents out of Austria, Lore discovers in herself an impassioned writer. In letters to potential sponsors, she details the horrors happening back at home; in those to her parents, she notes the mannerisms and reactions of the new families around her as she valiantly tries to master their language. And the closer the world comes to a new war, the more resolute Lore becomes to survive. As powerful now as when it was first released fifty years ago, Other People’s Houses is a poignant tale about the creation of a new life in the face of hopelessness and fear—a hallmark of the postwar immigration experience."@en

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  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Young adult works"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en

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  • "Other People's Houses A Novel"@en
  • "Wo andere Leute wohnen : Roman"
  • "Wo andere Leute wohnen Roman"
  • "Du thé pour Lorry"
  • "OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES: A Novel"@en
  • "Other People's Houses"
  • "Other People's Houses"@en
  • "Other people's houses"@en
  • "Other people's houses"
  • "Wo andere Leute wohnen"
  • "Other people's houses. [An autobiography.]"@en
  • "Thé pour Lorry (Du)"

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