Martha Blend

This book is billed as a Holocaust memoir, and certainly it is in a way: the author and her parents, middle-class Viennese Jews, were victims of Nazi persecution and almost everyone in her family, including her mother and father, died in the war. But Martha Blend was sheltered from the worst of it after her parents arranged for her to be sent to England via the Kindertransport.

Rather than passing through various concentration camps, or going into hiding, Martha spent the war years in the care of loving foster parents. Her book is focused more on the everyday ins and outs of growing up during the Blitz than it is on Hitler's atrocities. In fact, she even seems to avoid writing about her parents, just as she avoided talking about them with anyone after she arrived in England.

It's a good enough piece of writing, but not really what I was looking for. If you do like this sort of thing, The Tiger in the Attic, by Kindertransport alumnus Edith Milton, is another memoir you might enjoy.… (más)