The story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him.
The story of the Kindertransport is a account of the campaign to evacuate Jewish children to Great Britain before the outbreak of World War II. Hacker interviews several survivors to recount the trauma and terror of being uprooted and severed from the homes and families, most of which would never see their parents again.
