{"product_id":"9781837600069","title":"Escape to Gwrych Castle","description":"Author: Andrew Hesketh\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781837600069\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Sep 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of \u003ci\u003eI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! \u003c\/i\u003eLesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house in North Wales became home to around two hundred Jewish refugee children who had been rescued from Europe on the Kindertransport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder trying conditions, while the families they had been separated from faced the gravest of dangers, these children and their adult guardians established a \u003ci\u003eHachshara \u003c\/i\u003eat Gwrych Castle: a training centre intended to prepare them for the dream of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine (\u003ci\u003eEretz Yisrael\u003c\/i\u003e), where they hoped one day to be reunited with the families they left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating debut, historian Andrew Hesketh tells the story of these refugees and the community they built, shining a light on a chapter of Jewish history that deserves to be far more widely known. He recounts moving moments of friendship, respect, tension and humour as the new arrivals and local residents came to know each other, while the shadows of war loomed ever closer, and the \u003ci\u003eHachshara\u003c\/i\u003e project found itself facing an uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857109012638,"sku":"ADS-9781837600069","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781837600069.jpg?v=1779154664","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781837600069","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}