Flight From Prague The Making of a Refugee, September 1938 - November 1939

Reviews

Michael Lewis captures perfectly the mix of terror, determination and sheer exhaustion that his Jewish father experienced as he fled for his life from his Czechoslovakian homeland, eventually crossing Nazi Germany to safety in Belfast shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.

While it is the unique story of one refugee who loses everything, risks everything and starts again in a foreign country, it will surely help us understand better the plight of those who continue to make such perilous journeys in our own time, and perhaps deepen our compassion for them as well. The Revd Canon Dr Alan Billings

Harry's story is richly informative about historical events that should never be forgotten. At the same time, its human details engage our current predicament.

It narrates an individual as we hope they would be treated in law and policy - not labelled as 'refugee', 'asylum seeker' or 'migrant', but recognised as a person with dignity, needs and rights. John Birtwhistle