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My family for the war /

Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voorhoeve, Anne C. (Author)
Other Authors: Reichel, Tammi (Translator), Benalcazar, Monica (Bookjacket designer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: Liverpool Street.
Published: New York : Dial Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Into the arms of strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
World War, 1939-1945 > England > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > England > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Juvenile fiction.
Courage > Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain > History > George VI, 1936-1952 > Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > England > Fiction.
Identity > Fiction.
Jews > England > Fiction.
Refugees > Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > George VI, 1936-1952 > Fiction.
Deutsches Mädchen
Jüdin
London
Courage.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Jews.
Refugees.
England.
Great Britain.
Holocaust, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Fiction. > Jews > England.
Holocaust, 1933-1945 > Fiction.
Fiction. > Identity (Psychology)
Historical fiction.
Fiction. > Refugees.
Fiction. > Holocaust, 1939-1945.
Great Britain > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Geschichte 1939-1945
1936-1952
Mildred L. Batchelder book award: Winner > 2013.
Family stories > 2012.
Jugendbuch.
Bildungsromane > 2012.
Dust jackets (Bindings) > 2012.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
War stories.
Young adult works.
War fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Children's stories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bk. one. Survival plan 1938-1939. Jumping ; Richard and Ruben ; Ziska's flight ; New plans ; The voyage ; The shepards ; Becoming Frances ; A cinema surprise ; Pesach
  • book two. Blackout 1939-1940. News ; Evacuation ; Tail's end ; Enemies and friends ; Moving again ; Divided and united ; Leave ; Happy returns
  • book three. Returning home 1941-1945. Lightfoot ; Lost ; Revelations ; Light ; The end of the war ; A phone call ; Mamu ; Epilogue.