Kindertransport Military serving as a hiding place

serving as a hiding place and underground center for resistance partisans as well as artists condemned by Hitler

A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America

bestselling author of The Shoemaker's WifeA young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend

a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative

" --Ocean Vuong

Kindertransport Military serving as a hiding placeMama and I climbed aboard. I waved to Papa until he was only a tiny speck in the distance. The train turned the curve, and he was gone. A woman who experienced fear and prejudice during World War II describes how her parents sent her and her siblings to far off England for the duration of the war, where they struggled with a foreign language and prejudice. A powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England