Die Geschichte der Karola Siegel

Based on letters and diary entries, traces the wartime experiences of Karola Siegel, a Jew born in 1928 in Wiesenfeld, Germany. In 1939 she was sent from Frankfurt to Switzerland by train with 100 Jewish children who had been offered shelter there. She corresponded with her parents in Frankfurt until they were deported to the Kraków ghetto in 1941, after which she received no news from them. Their fate in the Holocaust remains unknown. Siegel spent the war in a children's home in Wartheim in Heiden, and emigrated to Palestine in 1945. Discusses the situation and feelings of Jewish refugee children in Switzerland. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)