The Children of Willesden Lane
Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival

Wow! Fabulous book! It was a page-turner. I never wanted to put it down and was always eager to resume reading. I loved the writing style. I loved the true story. It is one of the better coming of age stories I’ve read. It covers Lisa Jura from age 14 (with some of her memories of earlier years) to......more

4,25-4,5⭐️ Ha sido bastante interesante leer este libro y ver el punto de vista de una niña de 14 años en la época nazi. En este caso consigue huir de la zona más conflictiva y va a Londres, donde luchará por un sueño que tenía en común con SI madre, ser concertista de piano. Me ha encantado que la m......more

Twice now I’ve read this book. Unfortunately, it was too long ago for me to remember my thoughts from that first time. This is a hard book to read. The constant overwhelming fear, sorrow, uncertainty, and longing are hard to read about. It’s a book about children ripped from their parents who have......more

A story that needed to be told, the love of music overcoming the heinous specter of genocide. The audio version had piano music inserted at relevant points in the narrative.......more

I had not heard of the Kindertransport, a train that took Jewish children from Austria and Germany, to London, to avoid the encroaching German armies of Hitler. The parents had to purchase the fare for the children to go and have a family arranged to take the child once they got there. So starts the......more