When the Soldiers Were Gone, Vera Propp
When the Soldiers Were Gone, Vera Propp
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When the Soldiers Were Gone

Author: Vera Propp

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 2 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2018

Synopsis

Henk was hidden on the farm when he was young and the Nazi soldiers came. But the war is over now, and Henk finds out that the people he lives with, the people he loves, are not his real family. He doesn't remember his real parents, and now a new life in the city lies ahead of him. Will things ever be the same?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abi

What a beautiful book!......more

Goodreads review by Paola

I rated this a book a 5. Why? you may ask well, it's about this boy named Henk and he was Jewish so he was hidden in a farm when the Nazi soldiers came. He was living with some family he knew and loved until this man and women came to get him and told him they were there real parents, Henk was so co......more

Goodreads review by Abby

I love that this is a children’s book, it’s important for kids to read about WW2 and this book does a very good job of telling the story the way it happened while putting it into terms that children can relate to.......more

Goodreads review by Luke

A boy named Hank was living with some family through the war because he was a Jew and he had to hide. This family is the only family that he knows but than one day a man and a woman came to get him, they said they were his parents. Hank was very scared and confused. His parents that he knows made hi......more

Quotes

"A moving, well-written novel." --School Library Journal, starred review"Based on a true story, this spare, beautiful first novel captures the hidden survivor's trauma from the small child's bewildered point of view." --Booklist, starred review

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