Clare Ungerson will be at The Weiner Library, London on Thursday 20th March at an exhibition for her new book, Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain in 1939.
Clare Ungerson tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, East Kent, to which up to 4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas. The whole rescue was funded by the British Jewish community, with help from American Jewry. Most of the men had to leave their families behind. Would they get them out in time? And how would the people of Sandwich â a town the same size as the camp â react to so many German speaking Jewish foreigners?
Four Thousand Lives is not just a story of salvation, but also a revealing account of how a small English community reacted to the arrival of so many German Jews in their midst.