jewish refugees

Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.

The author recalls her childhood experiences of arriving in England from Germany at age seven in 1939, living in a strange country, and being forced to leave for New Jersey after the war to reunite with a mother she could not remember.

Tells the story of the World War II incident in which nearly eight hundred Romanian Jews were killed when the decrepit cattle barge on which the refugees were traveling was destroyed by a Soviet submarine after being denied entry into British-controlled Palestine and expelled from Turkish waters, and discusses attempts in 2000 to locate the "Struma" at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Frieda Korobkin recounts her experiences after she leaves her rabbinic family in Vienna at the age of six on a Kindertransport to England in order to escape Nazi persecution.

Describes the active involvement of the individual Italians, the government and the military in saving the lives of many of the Jews in Italy, Yugoslavia, and the German-occupied south of France in 1942 and 1943.

In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.

The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.