My Family for the War

By Anne C Voorhoeve, Tammi Reichel (Translator)

The book tells the story of 11-year-old Ziska who is Protestant but because of her Jewish heritage flees Nazi Germany via one of the secret trains called kindertransports.  When she joins an Orthodox Jewish household in London, she gains a new family for the war.

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Published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group. Originally published in German in 2007 as "Liverpool Street."

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