Kindertransport

by Olga Levy Drucker

Book Overview

Mama 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. The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805017119
• ISBN13: 9780805017113
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

GOOD READING BOOK

IT IS A GOOD READING BOOK WHICH ALSO HELPS OUR KIDS TO REFLECT ON THE SACRIFICES MADE BY SO MANY PEOPLE DURING WAR WORLD II,IT IS A VERY TOUCHING STORY ON HOW PARENTS PUT AWAY THEM SELVES FOR THE BEST FOR THEIR KIDS.

Kindertransport

I recently took an intensive class about teaching the Holocaust and ordered this book for both research purposes and to use in my classroom. Drucker's story of being separated from her parents and sent to a country where she didn't know the language or customs is powerful. Drucker was one of the "lucky" ones. Not only did she survive the the horrific consequences of the Holocaust, but her parents also got out alive. I recommend this book for middle school students and even 4th and 5th graders.

a well-written book

This is the engaging story of the author's wartime experience, and the changes it made in the course of her life. Ollie goes from her wealthy parents, to a poor unwelcoming family in England, to a series of families. Ms. Levy Drucker has told her story clearly, and without injecting insignificant details that only confuse the story the way so many memoir writers do.

A review and summery of Kindertransport

Kindertransport This is the best book I have read relating in a personal way to World War Two. The way it is written makes it seem like Ollie (the main character) is telling you her life story. Ollie was from an affluent Jewish family that lived in Germany. Before the war began she had a nice life with a nanny, cook, brother, and parents. One by one these were taken away as Hitler increased power. Her nanny and cook were both taken away because no one was allowed to work for a Jewish person. Ollie's brother moved to England to goto school and get away from Hitler. Her dad was taken to a concentration camp but was released only if he would leave the country. The papers to leave were hard to find but Ollie's parents contacted Kindertransport. Kindertransport is a group of people that helped get children out of the country before Hitler got them. It was because of them that Ollie managed to leave Germany. At that time she was only 10 years old, so she really didn't realize what was happening. She left her family and moved to England. The first family she lived with was poor and wasn't very friendly. She contracted lice and her parents found an old rich friend of theirs. Again they weren't very welcoming but it was clean. She was moved again this time to a boarding school. The kids became more friendly to her as she learned English. She made friends and lived with one of them for the summer. When school came back into session the war was escalating. The school was forced to close due to the war and lack of students. She moved in with a very nice Catholic family. That was her home for a little while until she was moved because she was getting too much Catholic religion. Her next family was her last "family". The mother of the house was very sick and Ollie had to miss a lot of school because of it. She quit school and became a nurse "nanny" for a family down the street. She loved living and working with children. She got a letter and found out her parents! made it out of Germany and now lived in New York. Her and her brother moved to the U.S.A and lived with them.This was a good book for any age level to read!

Unsentimental, powerful retrospective

In this unsentimental, yet powerful retrospective of a child's wartime experience, Drucker takes the reader on an intimate journey of discovery...of self, of good and evil, and ultimately of the power of love and trust.