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KindertransportDiane Samuels

Kindertransport

199593 pages
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In 1938, seven-year-old Eva Schlesinger is put aboard a train filled with other Jewish children and carried away from Nazi Germany in a little-known rescue operation called "Kindertransport." More than four decades later, she had become a quintessential Englishwoman who hides her origins from everyone, including her own daughter. Here in Kindertransport her past and present collide. We see the terrified child who possesses only two gold rings and a Star of David hidden in the heel of her shoe to link her to the parents she left behind. And we watch the grown woman who had tried to forget the…

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5 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    Hern Books, Limited, Nick · 9781780011325
  • Other · English · 2008
    Hern Books, Limited, Nick · 96 pages · 9781854595270
  • Other · English · 1996
    Nick Hern Books · 88 pages · 9780185492272
  • Other · English · 1995
    Plume · 98 pages · 9780452274273
  • Other · English · 1995
    Nick Hern Books · 88 pages · 9781854592279
Jewish RefugeesJewGerman JewsDramaWorld War, 1939-1945Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Jewish refugeesDrama (dramatic works by one author)