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Golabek, Mona

Summary: The true story of Lisa Jura, one of the thousands of Jewish children who survived World War II via the Kindertransport.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOL

Åsbrink, Elisabeth

Summary: "Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA. Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to become the founder of IKEA....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ASB

Parkin, Simon

Summary: "Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PAR

Berne, Emma Carlson

Summary: Tells the stories -- in their own words -- of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 BER

Cadbury, Deborah

Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CAD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 CAD

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CAD

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