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Reluctant refuge : unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children in Australia, 1933-45 / Glen Palmer.

Reluctant refuge : unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children in Australia, 1933-45 / Glen Palmer.
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ISBN 0864178581
Author Palmer, Glen Ann (author.)
Title Reluctant refuge : unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children in Australia, 1933-45 / Glen Palmer.
Other title Reluctant refuge : unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children in Australia, nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty five
Publisher and/or associated date/s East Roseville, NSW : Kangaroo Press, 1997.
Description 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography "Select bibliography": p. 226-234.
Contents 1. Who will take my child? -- 2. Unwanted gifts -- 3. Children from Germany -- 4. The lottery of life -- 5. Room, and welcome -- 6. Rescue attempts -- 7. Larino -- 8. Borrowed families -- 9. No time for childhood -- 10. Going home.
Summary The story of children how were refugees of evacuees from war torn Europe. They included British children sent to Australia to escape the German bombing raids over England and a smaller group of Jewish and other non-Aryan children sent from Germany, Austria and Poland to escape persecution from the Third Reich. This book tells the stroy of these children, examines their backgrounds, the care they received, their adjustment to Australian life and the additional wrench of repatriation. Includes lists of German and Austrian boys arriving in Melbourne on 'Jervis Bay' in 1939; Boys from Poland on the 'Oronsay' 1939; Refugees from Gross-Breesen Farm Germany in Sydney on 'Strathallan' 1939; German-Jewish children to Melbourne on the 'Orama' 1939; non-Aryan Christian children to Sydney on the 'Orama' 1939; British Children in 1940 on the 'Batory'; 'Nestor' and 'Diomed'.
Subjects Refugee children -- Australia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Australia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany
Call number 940.53161 PAL
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