The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing up English

Name of traveller

Edith Milton (b. 1932)

Reason for travel

• German Jewish refugee from Third Reich

Date of travel

1939

The owner of the farm is a weathered old man who speaks mostly Welsh – Mr Jones, let us say – who for some reason has taken a fancy to me. Perhaps because I am small and dark, as he is and as his children and grandchildren are, he supposes me among these tall blond paying guests to be the least likely to turn into an imperialist. (Milton 9-10)

Content

• customs:
  • realises that Wales is a culturally distinct entity during her holidays in Snowdonia
  • aware of tensions between Wales and England and also of the Welsh language
• recreation: spends memorable holiday on a farm in north Wales
• people: spends first year of her exile in Swansea where her uncle works as the prison governor
• politics: settling into new life in Britain after escaping from Germany in the Kindertransport
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Nationality of traveller

German

Language of publication

English

Gender of traveller

Female

Type of publication

autobiography

Citation

Milton, Edith. The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing up English. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 8-11. Print.