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A Child Alone Blend, Martha In the late s, as the Nazis' grip of Germany and Austria tightened and their persecution of Jews intensified, many Jewish parents were desperate for their children, at least, to escape the terror that threatened them all. Author/Creator: Blend, Martha, Publication: Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, Format/Description: Book x, p.: ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Library of. A child alone, Martha Blend. Resource Information The item A child alone, Martha Blend represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.

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Martha Blend is the author of A Child Alone ( avg rating, 2 ratings, 2 reviews, published ). This is the story of one such survivor, a loved only child from Vienna, sent to England as a bewildered nine-year-old in She was never to see her parents again. Though treated with loving kindness by her foster-parents, Martha was always conscious of being alone, separate, and deprived of her birthright. Her memoir contains a reproduction of one of its pages with a naive verse written by a child: ‘LEBE GLÜCKLICH, LEBE FROH/WIE DER MOPS IM PALETOT’ (Child Alone, p. 21). In the caption to this image, Blend explains that her cousin Mary Erster, the writer of the verse reproduced, was one of the Jews deported from Antwerp (Child Alone, p. 21). The narrated self is presented to the reader, but the narrating self explains the historical development, that the child was murdered.