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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazi on the Kindertransport
Deborah Hopkinson
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Scholastic Focus
ISBN: 978-1-338-25572-0
Keywords: Holocaust, refugees
The rescue operation that saved 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazis between 1938 and 1939 recounted with oral histories, memoirs, interviews. Copious photographs, extensive back matter.