A Holocaust tale for today

Julian Borger , the world affairs editor of the Guardian , has written a new book about his family's escape from Nazi persecution in the 1930s .

His grandparents took out a three -line ad in the Manchester Guardian looking for a Brit who would take in his son, aged 11 .

Scores of Viennese Jewish families had found refuge from the Nazis because British citizens responded to these pleas.

Borger 's father never talked about what happened.

Author's father committed suicide in 1983 when he was in his 20s .

After seeing the ad, she realized there was an untold story here not just about her family.

She tracked down 80 children who were placed in the Manchester Guardian adverts.

One survivor of the adverts still alive, in her 90s , and living in Connecticut , she says.

The Guardian reporter's father rebuffed any attempt to talk about his past.

He says his father wanted to see himself as British and didn't want to burden the next generation.