by
Frieda Stolzberg Korobkin
"One of my first vivid recollections is being buried in the
snow by three of Hitler's young hooligans…" So begins
the remarkable story of a six-year old girl who, in the winter of
1938, is uprooted overnight from her rabbinic family in Vienna,
and sent on the Kindertransport to England.
We accompany little Frieda to London, where she is forced to desecrate
the Sabbath for the first time in her young life. The Blitz forces
the large-scale evacuation of children from London, and Frieda winds
up in Thorpe, living with a kind, upper-class gentile couple who
know nothing of Jews or Judaism.
Frieda's older brother and sister "rescue" her, whisking
her away secretly to the little village of Shefford, where Rabbi
Schonfeld and his headmistress, the incomparable Dr. Judith Grunfeld,
have established a school and dormitory for children from religious
Jewish homes.
At the end of the war, Frieda returns to London where she and her
fellow refugees exist in a state of animated suspension while awaiting
news of their parents' fate.
Frieda Stolzberg Korobkin
was born in Vienna into an Orthodox, rabbinic family. In 1938,
after Hitler's rise to power, Frieda's parents sent her and her
siblings to England on the Kindertransport. They never saw their
parents again.
Frieda is married to entertainment attorney Leonard Korobkin.
They live in Los Angeles, CA, and have three married children
and many grandchildren.
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