Ally Sherrick visits

Award-winning children’s author Ally Sherrick was guest speaker at May’s Kindertransport lunch.  Ally spoke about her new book, The Buried Crown, which resonated with the Kinder members.  Ally is pictured here with AJR Kinder members Bernd Koschland MBE and Sir Erich Reich.

In this new story, one of the characters is a young German Jewish refugee, Kitty Regenbogen, who has come across to England as part of a Kindertransport and is living with her grandfather, a German Jewish archaeologist in Suffolk, where the story is set. The hero, George Penny, an evacuee boy from London, is befriended by Kitty and her grandfather and, as the story unfolds, the pair of them join forces to save a priceless piece of ancient treasure (the buried crown of the title) which is at risk of being stolen and taken back to Berlin for Adolf Hitler.

The story is linked to the real-life discovery of a famous archaeological treasure, the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, just before the war broke out and was also inspired by Ally’s father’s own time spent as an evacuee during the war.

Photo © Elizabeth Doak