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<p>Bronka Schneider and her husband Joseph were two of the thirty thousand Austrian Jews admitted as refugees to Great Britain between March 1938 and 2 September 1939. It was not until 1960 however that Schneider wrote her memoir about the year she spent as a housekeeper with Joseph as a butler in a Scottish castle.</p> <p>Schneider tells of daily encounters-with her employers the English lady and her husband a retired British civil servant who had spent many years in India; the village locals; other refugees; and a family of evacuees from the slums of Glasgow.<br> <br> The editors have divided this memoir into chapters adding headlines from the London Times as epigraphs. These headlines reporting the escalating events of World War II are in stark contrast to daily activities of the residents of this isolated region of Scotland. A commentary by Erika Bourguignon provides historical political and cultural background of this period.</p>