'I seek a kind person': the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis
On Wednesday 3 August 1938, a short advertisement appeared on the second page of the Manchester Guardian, under the title “Tuition”. “I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent Boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family,” the advert said, under the name Borger, giving the address of an apartment on Hintzerstrasse, in Vienna’s third district. The small ad, costing a shilling a line, was placed by my grandparents, Leo and Erna. The...
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