I Seek A Kind Person: ads placed in Vienna newspapers to save children from the Nazis in 1938

(I Seek A Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, & the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust. (2025) Julian Borger. London: John Murray Press).  When Julian was 22, his father committed suicide at age 56 or 57. Award-winning journalist Julian Borger found the ads his grandfather also placed in the Manchurian Guardian in 1938 (Julian’s employer, now The Guardian), to find homes for Jewish children in Great Britain. Two teachers from Northern Wales accepted his son, Bobby, for the rest of the war. Kindertransport began on December 10th, 1938, and saved thousands of Jewish children from Nazi slaughter by moving them to England. Hitler was born in Austria and his ascent to power unleashed hatred and violence in the streets of Vienna. Jewish students were expelled from schools and beaten by the Gestapo Brownshirts. As adults, these survivors suffered PTSD, a common term in the 21st century. Soldiers got combat fatigue, children were not considered during the war years. These children were placed in homes where they did not speak the language, understand the customs, experienced different religions, and were torn from their families. They suffered loneliness in their new countries and mourned their lost families. Often, they did not recover emotionally. Julian’s father’s foster mother felt the Nazis “got to him in the end.” Intergenerational trauma is a result of long-term, untreated emotional damage. Many Holocaust survivors did not talk about their trauma because they were afraid it would hurt their children. Holocaust survivors are three times more likely to attempt suicide than other trauma survivors. Suicides in the concentration camps occurred at a horrendous rate and could range as high as 25,000 per 100,000 per year. Julian Borger tracked 80 children from Vienna who were sent to other countries. 

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