Phyllis Bardole, Rippey Librarian, has been ordering interesting books during the period that thee Library needed to be closed and has brought books to the door for library users. One of these books is Child Of Our Time: A Young Girl’s Flight From The Holocaust by Ruth David. Her parents arranged for her to travel to England from Germany on one of the Kindertransports in 1939 when she was 10 years old to escape the persecution of Jews. Along with other Jewish children, she lived in hostels and later at Windemere. Ruth David shares her experiences during the war years. Her parents died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz along with other family members. After World War II, Ruth remained in England and was able to gain an education and became a teacher. She moved to Ames in 1993 after her marriage to Herbert David, a professor at Iowa State, an also a Holocaust survivor. After 17 years there, she returned to England where her children live and died in April 2020 at 91 years of complications from Covid 19.
-Nancy Hanaman