We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson (author)

We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

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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. Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth’s experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organise the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. Young people like Ruth David had to say goodbye to their families, unsure if they’d ever be reunited. Miles from home, the Kindertransport refugees entered unrecognisable lives, where food, clothes – and, for many of them, language and religion – were startlingly new. Meanwhile, the onset of war and the Holocaust visited unimaginable horrors on loved ones left behind. Somehow, these rescued children had to learn to look forward, to hope.

  • 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.

REVIEWS A Sydney Taylor Notable Book A Kirkus Best Book Well-crafted, accessible, and essential. - Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

Catalogue number

8096 in Rewards Catalogue 2024/25

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780702304897

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

September 3rd, 2020

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 7.5; Upper years; 8.0 points

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  • 368 pages

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