Description: These young refugees were followed by other groups of young people from war-torn Europe whose life journeys were 'interrupted', in fact, underwent total and permanent change, as a result of Hitler's Reich. They included children who escaped first to Britain on the famed 'Kindertransports', teenage survivors of the Holocaust who spent the war in hiding or in Nazi concentration camps, friendly 'enemy aliens' like the Dunera Boys, who were interned in Australia, and the Vienna Mozart Boys Choir, internationally renowned child singers, trapped in Australia by the outbreak of war. Interrupted Journeys reveals not only their remarkable wartime stories, but also describes how many of these young refugees from Nazism made Australia their permanent home after the war ended and have since added richly to the life of this country. Alan Gill has drawn on several years of painstaking research and many hours of interviews. Their extraordinary experiences vary greatly, but their stories have a common thread of courage in adversity and remarkable resilience. Alongside their stories is revealed the enormous courage and sacrifice of the children's parents in sending their children away to an uncertain future, as well as some of the daring and inspiring acts of those who helped the young refugees escape Nazism.

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