kindertransports (rescue operations)

In November 1938, young Ruth Block is a Jewish girl in Frankfurt Germany, trying to cope with the ever tightening noose of Nazi oppression; her father's stationery store has been shut down, and her school closed; then one night her family's apartment is broken into, and her father is dragged out, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp--and it becomes clear that if Ruth and her best friend Miriam are going to survive they must somehow get out of Germany, even if it means leaving their parents behind.

"Meg Waite Clayton presents a pre-World War II-era story centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe, and one brave woman--Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance--who helped them escape to safety"--OCLC.

Looks at seven Jewish children who escaped the Nazis on a rescue operation called the Kindertransport.

Looks at seven Jewish children who escaped the Nazis on a rescue operation called the Kindertransport.

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.

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.

Eva, a nine-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to Manchester during the Holocaust, like almost ten thousand children also sent from Germany by their parents, and it is not until her daughter discovers some old letters in the attic that Eva is forced to confront her past.

World-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares her mother's journey through World War II and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter, the gift of music.

World-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares her mother's journey through World War II and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter, the gift of music.

Britain evacuated nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi-occupied territories in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. They were placed with host families so they could survive the war. In 1945 there was a second Kindertransport to rescue young survivors of the Holocaust. After the war the Refugee Children Movement was established in order to unite children with any family members who had survived the Holocaust.