Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport.
Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced to give up in order to save these children..
Somehow, these rescued children had to learn to look forward, to hope.
Meanwhile, the onset of war and the Holocaust visited unimaginable horrors on loved ones left behind.
Miles from home, the Kindertransport refugees entered unrecognizable lives, where food, clothes -- and, for many of them, language and religion -- were startlingly new.
Young people like Ruth David had to say good-bye to their families, unsure if they\'d ever be reunited.
Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England.
By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests.
Just going to school became dangerous.
Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth\'s experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks.
Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s.
Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport
