I Seek a Kind Person - My Father, Six Children and the Adverts that Helped Save them from the Holocaust

'I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent boy, aged 11.' In 1938, Jewish families under Nazi rule were scrambling to get out of the Reich. In desperation, children were advertised in the pages of the Manchester Guardian, their virtues and skills extolled in brief. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. Eighty-three years later, Guardian's Pulitzer prize-winning World Affairs Editor, Julian Borger, found the intelligent boy was his father, Robert. This led to an investigation to retrace the lives of his family members, and in doing so excavating secrets of the past, From the Viennese archives to the Shanghai ghetto, from internment camps and family homes in the UK to German forests, concentration camps and a secret Austrian cell within the French Resistance, Borger retraces his father's escape and survival, as well as the remarkable stories of six other advertised Viennese children. I Seek a Kind Person is a powerful, investigative memoir unveiling the long-lasting shadow that is cast on future generations by history.