List Of Writers

DAVIS, ELLEN

Ellen Davis was born Kärry Wertheim in 1929 in the small village of Hoof, near Kassel, in Germany. Her Jewish family had lived there since 1760, but its peaceful existence was shattered when Hitler came to power and the German Jews were persecuted. Her autobiography Kerry’s Children (Seren, 2004), tells the harrowing story of her childhood struggle to protect her younger brothers and sisters from the terrors of life in 1930s Germany. Beaten by the Gestapo and attacked by the Hitler Youth, the children took refuge in an orphanage which was itself attacked on Kristallnacht. Ellen was sent to Britain via the Kindertransport, escaping the Nazis but separated from her family. Ellen was adopted by a childless couple from Swansea. She tells the moving story of her life in a new country and her continuing search for her German family.

Selected Publications:
Kerry’s Children (Seren, 2004)