Michael Lewis

Broschiertes Buch

Flight From Prague

The Making of a Refugee, September 1938 - November 1939

Beschreibung

A True Story from World War Two On the night of 30 September 1938, Harry Lewy must flee for his life. At the stroke of a pen, Czechoslovakia’s border region has switched from comfortable home to dangerous place for any Jew. By agreement with the Allied powers of Britain and France, Adolf Hitler’s Germany is taking over the Sudetenland and Harry, a Jewish German speaker, must abandon everything in his previously secure world to escape persecution. Forced to lie low with soldiers taking control of the streets, he seeks to make his way covertly out of Czechoslovakia. Fear, uncertainty and danger accompany him on the perilous journey across Europe – across the heart of Nazi Germany – in search of sanctuary. Ultimately, he finds himself in a new state: isolated and vulnerable, penniless and unwanted. Like others fleeing war and disaster, he has been stripped of his position, his dignity and his identity. This story tells one refugee’s flight from fear towards a new life. Reviews Michael Lewis captures perfectly the mix of terror, determination and sheer exhaustion that his Jewish father experienced as he fled for his life from his Czechoslovakian homeland, eventually crossing Nazi Germany to safety in Belfast shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. While it is the unique story of one refugee who loses everything, risks everything and starts again in a foreign country, it will surely help us understand better the plight of those who continue to make such perilous journeys in our own time, and perhaps deepen our compassion for them as well. The Revd Canon Dr Alan Billings Harry’s story is richly informative about historical events that should never be forgotten. At the same time, its human details engage our current predicament. It narrates an individual as we hope they would be treated in law and policy – not labelled as ‘refugee’, ‘asylum seeker’ or ‘migrant’, but recognised as a person with dignity, needs and rights. John Birtwhistle

Autor

Michael Lewis was born in 1949 and grew up in Belfast, where he went to school. His father, the subject of this book, was a refugee and his mother was a Holocaust survivor. After reading Modern Languages at Oxford, he trained as a teacher at York University. He taught in four comprehensive schools in England for 35 years, the last twenty of which were as the headteacher of King Edward VII School in Sheffield.After retirement in 2008, he took on a variety of roles, including as a non-legal member of the Employment Tribunals (2010-2024), as a member and sometime chair of the Independent Ethics Panel of South Yorkshire Police (2015-24) and as a member of the Teaching Regulation Agency's professional conduct panel.In 2009, the University of Sheffield awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters in recognition of his contribution to education.He married Petra in 1979, and they have two sons and two grandchildren. Flight from Prague is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canbury Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781914487552
• ISBN-10: 1914487559
• Artikelnr.: 73789304