Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

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Title:

Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Author:

Berne, Emma Carlson, 1979- author.

Personal Author:

Berne, Emma Carlson, 1979- author.

Publication Information:

North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, a capstone imprint, [2017]

Physical Description:

112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Encounter

Encounter (Capstone Press)

Summary:

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.

Language:

English

Contents:

Traveling toward an unknown future: Tom Berman -- From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport -- A number around his neck: Kurt Fuchel -- A long way from home: Harry Ebert -- The importance of a rabbit's foot: Irene Schmied -- Stranded in Warsaw: Hans Schneider -- She never forgot her mother's face: Ursula Rosenfeld -- Carrying his yellow bear: Jack Hellman -- Life after the Kindertransport: the children's stories.

Conference Subject:

World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924

Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) (OCoLC)fst01710189

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Juvenile literature.

Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Juvenile literature.

Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Juvenile literature.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.

Kindertransports (Rescue operations)

Jewish children in the Holocaust.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.