TY - BOOK AU - Frank,Miriam TI - My innocent absence: tales from a Nomadic life SN - 9781906413675 U1 - 920 FRA PY - 2010/// PB - Arcadia KW - Frank KW - Women physicians KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Physicians KW - Jewish families KW - Mothers and daughters KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Jews KW - France N2 - When five-year-old Miriam boards the Serpia Pinto in 1941, she is unaware that she and her mother are escaping the roundups, separations and final extermination camps. She is leaving a world of communists and Nazis, Jew and stateless refugees. But sometimes the mere fact of survival is not enough ER -