EAN: 9780062946942

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From the New York Times bestselling novelist Meg Waite Clayton comes a powerful novel set in the pre?World War II era based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe?and of one brave woman who helped them escape. In 1936 the Nazis are little more than brutish boors to fifteen-year-old Stephan Neuman a budding playwright and the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family in Vienna Austria. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant ?ofie-Helene a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when Hitler's forces advance. There is hope in the darkness though. Truus Wijsmuller a childless Dutchwoman risks her life to smuggle children out of Nazi-occupied lands to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous as countries across Europe close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape after the Anschluss Hitler's annexation of Austria. Tante Truus as she is known is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in young refugees from the German Reich she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann the man who would later help devise the ?Final Solution to the Jewish Question.? Truus then sets off in a race against time to lead hundreds of children on a perilous journey to freedom.

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