Elisabeth M. Orsten

A rather dull memoir. The author was a practicing Catholic, but her ancestry meant she was Jewish to the Nazis. She escaped from Austria to England via the Kindertransport in 1938, then followed her parents to America in 1940. There's nothing wrong with relying on your diary to help write a memoir but she really goes overboard here. She fills page after endless page with analysis of her entries, what did she mean when she said this, why did she leave that out, etc.