We had to be brave: escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

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Hopkinson, Deborah

Hopkinson, Deborah

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Details the heartwrenching experiences of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany aboard the Kindertransport, in a collection of true accounts that includes the story of young Ruth David, who clung to hope in an unfamiliar country after being separated from her family. "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. Just going to school became dangerous. 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. Young people like Ruth David had to say good-bye to their families, unsure if they'd ever be reunited. 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, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced to give up in order to save these children"--

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Wake County Public Libraries

East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Holly Springs Community
Leesville Community
Middle Creek Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Southgate Community
Wendell Community

9781338255720

2020

Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile literature
Jewish children -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Jewish children -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
Jewish children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Jewish children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
Jewish refugees -- Great Britain
Jewish refugees -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Juvenile literature
Refugee children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Refugee children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Juvenile literature

We had to be brave : escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

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

We had to be brave

escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

History
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish children
Jewish refugees
Jews
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
Refugee children
Rescue
World War, 1939-1945