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  • 08/2016
  • 9781326673390
  • 336 pages
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Lady Ruth Bromfield
Gordon Smith, author
Saved from Nazi Holocaust, she grew in spirit to be a world leader. In 1935, Ruth was in born to an unmarried Jewish mother in Germany. Fearing the Nazi persecution, Ruth was sent to England on the "kinder transport“ to be raised by a Church of England priest. He raised in the Christian faith, and with help, he also raised her in the Jewish faith. Her faith guided her life and enabled her to build bridges between different groups, even at an early age. Follow her story as she grows up and becomes an engineer on the Snowy Mountain Hydro-Electric Project. Her story is guaranteed to raise your hopes and show how to overcome the differences we all share. A sensational view at overcoming religious and ethnic intolerance
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‘That was my mother being handed to her new father by her birth mother.’

ByGrady HarpHALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon September 13, 2016

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Australian author Gordon Smith has spent most of his life in sales, public transport and Traffic Management, managing traffic movements through and around major road work sites through out Queensland, his last project was as Traffic Project Manager on the construction of the Gold Coast Light Rail throughout the City of Gold Coast. Gordon retired to Queensland's Sunshine Coast in 2014 and started to take in interest in researching his family. He discovered links back to the 1400's and even a distant link to the Royal Family of United Kingdom. During his research he discovered that he had 6 relatives who fought in the Great War. He knew about his relatives in the 2nd World War but knew nothing about the men in his family who had fought in the Great War. As he has stated, `My Grandparents had 4 brothers and 2 cousins in the Great War. The more I found out about them while researching my family tree it became obvious that a book MUST be written to honor them in particularly for my children, grandchildren as well as all my cousins and their children. It is also an honor to share their story with the world.' That book was Gordon’s first – a brief memoir he titled FROM THE FAMILY THAT WENT TO WAR. That was the nisus for his subsequent book – AN AUSTRALIAN STORY – a volume that reflects his profound research, a rather magnum opus of Australian history over two centuries worthy of careful study. Now Gordon focuses on one heroic lady in redefining the aspects of World War II on victims of Nazi persecution

As with his first book, Gordon sets both a mood and a respectful homage in his Preface: ‘It was late winter in 1935, when the young Jewish girl gave birth to her baby girl, in the German town of Citizen. The child’s father, a soldier who decided that being the father of a Jewish child would not help his progression through the ranks of Hitler’s army, deserted her. Her family was not critical of her; instead, they showed understanding and supported her through the pregnancy. She named the child, Ruth. Ruth’s grandfather ran a successful civil engineering company that dealt with the British manufacturer, Sir William Bromfield. Sir William spent most of his time visiting German enterprises that dealt with his engineering supply companies. Their business relationship had developed into a genuine friendship. For Jews, life became unbearable in Germany as it became the practice for any senior German Officer to just take whatever Jewish belongings they wanted.’ And from this beginning Gordon accompanies us on a tour f the downfall of the Jews and the kinder transport and young Ruth’s entering into the Bromfield family.

Or as the fine synopsis distills it, ‘She escaped Nazi persecution as a child, then grew to become an inspirational leader. In 1935, Ruth was born to an unmarried Jewish mother in Germany. Fearing the Nazi persecution Ruth was sent to England on the "kinder transport“ and raised by a Church of England priest. Ruth was raised as a Christian Jew and her faith guided her life and enabled her to build bridges between different groups even at an early age. She grew to become a giant in the largest construction company in the world, where she implemented a unique social interaction system that united people from different backgrounds and beliefs. Her story will raise your hopes and show how to overcome the differences we all share. An inspirational look at overcoming religious and ethnic intolerance.’

At book’s end, as is typical of Gordon’s writing, the touching personal aspects enter and the plaque that was erected in Australia: ‘This plaque and statue serve as a symbol of the thousands of Jewish children who were put on the ‘Kinder Transport’ in 1938 by their parents so they could escape the persecution The statue depicts Jewish Mother Martha Czlowiek handing her child to an English priest aboard the train. The man standing beside her is Sir William 7th Baronet Bloomfield’. Martha and Sir William were shot before the train departed’.

As with each of Gordon’s Smith’s books, this is a factual, historically accurate and deeply moving salute to humanity and the value of the human soul. Grady Harp, September 16

Formats
Paperback Book Details
  • 08/2016
  • 9781326673390
  • 336 pages
  • $16.39
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