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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrenees, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace's past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart. More than fifty years after they disappear, Addie...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how thousands of Jewish children escaped Nazi Europe just before the outbreak of World War II, tracing the historical role of the Kindertransport rescue mission in a volume complemented by archival photographs and personal accounts.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories in their own words of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
Author
Series
Star and the shamrock volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Dublin 1950. Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She'd been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When her husband doesn't come home one day, Ariella realises that the only way she can ensure her Jewish children's safety is to avail of the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? A thousand miles away, Elizabeth Klein has closed herself off from the world. Losing her husband on the last day of the Great War, and her child months later, she cannot, will not, love again. It hurts too much. But she is all Liesl and Erich Bannon have. Thrown...
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