Reluctant refuge: unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children in Australia, 1933-1945

Tells the story of 2 groups of children who were sent to Australia. These children were, the British evacuee children sent to Australia to escape German bombing and the smaller group of Jewish and other 'non-Aryan' children sent in desperation from Germany, Austria and Poland. The book examines their backgrounds, the care they received, their adjustment to life in Australia without their families and the additional wrench of repatriation.