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We had to be brave, escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport, Deborah Hopkinson

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-298) and index

illustrations

no index present

Ages 8-12, Scholastic Focus

Grade 4 to 6, Scholastic Focus

non fiction

We had to be brave

bibliography

Deborah Hopkinson

escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. . . . By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. . . . Miles from home, the Kindertransport refugees entered unrecognizable lives, where food, clothes -- and, for many of them, language and religion -- were startlingly new. Meanwhile, the onset of war and the Holocaust visited unimaginable horrors on loved ones left behind. Somehow, these rescued children had to learn to look forward, to hope. Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors . . . author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of what it was like to live under the Nazis, and what it means to escape

juvenile