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Mar 21, 2016 · Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma – review | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian. Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger: during the war, they gave a home to 12...
Jan 12, 2016 · Winifred Regensburg and Bernard Schlesinger were born into the closed world of well-heeled, music-loving German-English households featured so admiringly by E.M. Forster in “Howards End.”
Feb 25, 2016 · Winifred Regensburg and Bernard Schlesinger were British-born, the children of well-off German Jewish immigrants to England who became even wealthier in their new country. The charm of this book lies in the details from the couple’s letters, hundreds of which were written, mostly during long separations in World War I and World War II.
Both families have their roots in Germany but whilst Bernard and Winifred Schlesinger grew up in England, Simon and Elsa Bischheim emigrated to the UK as one of the first Jewish refugees from Frankfurt-am-Main in 1933. Also included are photographs of both families and related correspondence.
Jan 17, 2017 · Paperback – Illustrated, January 17, 2017. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma’s grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each other.
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Mar 14, 2016 · By Anne Joseph 14 March 2016, 3:12 am. In 1938, the Schlesingers opened a hostel in London to care for Jewish children from Berlin (Courtesy) LONDON — Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard...
This collection contains materials by and about Kurt Seelig and his family. The majority relates to Seelig's time with Bernard and Winifred Schlesinger, who opened a London hostel for 12 German-Jewish children that arrived via Kindertransport.
