We Had to Be Brave Escaping the Nazi..., Deborah Hopkinson
We Had to Be Brave Escaping the Nazi..., Deborah Hopkinson
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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)

Author: Deborah Hopkinson

Narrator: Deborah Hopkinson

Unabridged: 5 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/04/2020


Synopsis

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. An NCTE Orbis Pictus recommended book.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 organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. Young people like Ruth David had to say good-bye to their families, unsure if they'd ever be reunited. Miles from home, the Kindertransport refugees entered unrecognizable 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.

About Deborah Hopkinson

Deborah Hopkinson is the author of Small Places, Close to Home and Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen, among more than fifty acclaimed works for young readers including picture books, middle-grade fiction, and nonfiction that help bring history and research alive. Deborah lives near Portland, Oregon with her family and a menagerie of pets. You can visit her online at www.deborahhopkinson.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex

With the same attention to detail and straightforward writing style readers have come to appreciate from her, Deborah Hopkinson looks at how the rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe, known as the Kindertransport, was able to saved approximately 10,000 young people. In the fir......more

Goodreads review by Peivand

برای نوجوانها نوشته شده به نظرم بیشتر حالت آمار و ارقام داره تا بیان انگیزه و اینجور چیزها خیلی جذاب نبود .........more

Goodreads review by Becky

First sentence: Imagine getting on a train and leaving your parents and your family behind. Premise/plot: Deborah Hopkinson’s newest nonfiction narrative is about the kindertransport. There are multiple narratives unfolding. First there is a general narrative that is explaining, providing context, gi......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

Deborah Hopkinson records events in Europe, primarily Germany, Poland, and England, following WWI. She gives readers a view of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and slaughter of millions of Jewish people primarily through the lens of children who were rescued from death via the Kindertransport, trains an......more