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Two Jewish refugee children, part of a Kindertransport, upon arrival in Harwich, England, on December 12, 1938.

Copyright 2020 by Deborah Hopkinson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hopkinson, Deborah, author.

Title: We had to be brave : escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport /

Deborah Hopkinson.

Description: First edition. | New York : Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. [2020] | Audience: Ages 8-12. | Audience: Grade 4 to 6. |Summary: Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruths experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. Young people like Ruth David had to say good-bye to their families, unsure if theyd ever be reunited. Miles from home, the Kindertransport refugees entered unrecognizable lives, where food, clothesand, for many of them, language and religionwere startlingly new. Meanwhile, the onset of war and the Holocaust visited unimaginable horrors on loved ones left behind. Somehow, these rescued children had to learn to look forward, to hope. Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced to give up in order to save these childrenProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019020130 | ISBN 9781338255720

Subjects: LCSH: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Juvenile literature. |

Kindertransports (Rescue operations)Juvenile literature. | Jewish refugeesGreat BritainJuvenile literature. | Refugee childrenGreat

BritainHistory20th centuryJuvenile literature. | Jewish childrenGreat BritainHistory20th centuryJuvenile literature. |

Jewish childrenGermanyHistory20th centuryJuvenile literature. |

World War, 1939-1945JewsRescueJuvenile literature. | LCGFT:

Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC D804.34 .H67 2020 | DDC 940.53/1535083dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020130

First edition, February 2020

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Cover design by Keirsten Geise

e-ISBN 978-1-338-25573-7

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