jews, austrian

"The inspiring true story of one young girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds"--Provided by publisher.

"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned to post-war Japan as an interpreter, found her parents, and wrote the fateful words that make her a storied feminist hero in that nation even today. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor said about Beate Sirota Gordon, 'It is a rare life treat for a Supreme Court Justice to get to meet a framer of a Constitution. It is rarer indeed for that framer to have been a woman'"--Provided by the publisher.

The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.

The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.

Describes the response of two generations of a Jewish family to the anit-Semitism of the Nazis in an Austrian town.