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political and emotional exile for the now adolescent, who saw similarities between the National Socialist dictatorship and the French Fourth Republic. Each child narrated their journeys from their first homes and experiences of war in visual and verbal forms, as they unfolded during the Nazi era. They all survived the Hitler years to become authors and/or illustrators. Their oeuvres show how significant upheaval in their young lives played out over their life courses, as reflected in their [...] ### 2017 #### Heidi Lawrence (United Kingdom) [...] from Germany in their childhoods, which ended in Britain, where they both eventually found new homes. Segal, too, found refuge in Britain: she was sent from Austria to England as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission in 1938. By contrast, Ungerer felt he became a refugee in his own country at the age of eight (Carey, ‘Tomi Ungerer’), when the Nazis arrived in and occupied his home region of Alsace. The ‘return home’ of Alsace to France in 1945 was only the beginning of a second period of