Seeking Shelter: Memoir of a Jewish Girlhood in Wartime Britain - Paperback

by Cynthia Ehrenkrantz (Author)

Cynthia Ehrenkrantz was six in 1939 when Britain entered World

War II. She was twelve in 1945 when the war ended. Seeking

Shelter is her vivid child's-eye account of life in wartime England

as she lived it: an adored only child in a large Jewish clan whose

comfortable existence becomes one of food shortages, gas masks

and air-raid sirens, and - worst of all - being sent away for months and years at a stretch to escape German bombs.

Contending with bullies, rushing from a warm bed to a backyard

shelter when sirens wail. Life is hard but also good: shining in a school play, collecting foil for the war effort, celebrating Passover... These are the mixed realities of wartime that mark young Cynthia forever in

ways only adult Cynthia can understand.