We had to be brave, escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport, Deborah Hopkinson
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We had to be brave, escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport, Deborah Hopkinson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-313) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 8-12, Scholastic Focus
resource.interestGradeLevel
Grade 4 to 6, Scholastic Focus
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
We had to be brave
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1137164555
Responsibility statement
Deborah Hopkinson
Sub title
escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
Summary
"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"--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
juvenile
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- Historical fiction
- Jewish refugees -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Juvenile literature
- Refugee children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 + Jews + Rescue -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish children -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
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- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Juvenile literature
- Refugee children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 + Jews + Rescue -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish children -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile literature
- Jewish children -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
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