We had to be brave : escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
Hopkinson, Deborah2020
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Click and Collect for We had to be brave : escaping the Nazis on the KindertransportRuth 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.
Main title:
We had to be brave : escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport / Deborah Hopkinson.
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Imprint:
New York : Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020
Collation:
xxi, 341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
When they burn books : 1925-1938. Before -- Voices : life before the Nazis -- Hilter's rise to power -- The worrying time begins -- When they burn books -- When hate becomes law -- Voices : The signs were all there -- The tipping point : 1938. The ninth of November -- Voices : Kristallnacht -- The tipping point -- Here is a chance -- Flight : 1938-1939. Into the unknown -- Voices : parting -- Fred's passport -- Thea's narrow escape -- Separation and sorrow : 1939 and beyond. Voices : life in a strange land -- New land, new lives -- Last transport from Holland -- The door closes -- Voices : looking back, moving forward -- Postscript.
ISBN:
9781338255720
Dewey class:
940.531535083940
Language:
English
Subject:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile literatureKindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Juvenile literatureJewish refugees -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literatureRefugee children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureJewish children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureJewish children -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Juvenile literature
BRN:
373947
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Junior Non-Fiction History | J 940 HOP | Available |
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