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Kindertransport

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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!

I read the book for my school, because we were reading books about WWII. Normally, I stay away from the realistic/historical section of the library, but this was a good book! It's about a girl named Olga who was sent to England so that she, a Jew, would be safe from Hitler. I'm not gonna give too much away, but most of Olga's new homes aren't that much fun. READ IT! Especially if you like historical stories. It reads like a novel, but it's actually an autobiography. It's good. Just take my word for it.

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.

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.

I had read a large variety of books,and i find this autobiography great,and in a way,it moved me. It's difficult to believed a girl of 10 or 11 years old to enter a new country on her own,especially when she hardly knew anyone from the country(other than her brother,Hans).I would say,this book is great, after Anne Frank's and several other biographies/autobiographies...

If you read the book with great thoughts,you can feel the hatred and pain, of how young and old Jews were treated.It's a sad thing to know 15 million soldiers lost their lives on battlefields,and 32 millions ordinary folks lost their life...

More than 50 years have passed...and the then little Olga's life have long changed...It's really almost impossible to believe the Olga today and the Olga years back...She had not only retrieved confidence,knowledge, but also witnessed one of the world's darkest storm...

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.

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.

"Why is there a tree on top of the House?" asked Olga in the winter of 1932. Kindertransport is an autobiography about a girl named Olga. Olga has a mother, a father, and a brother. Olga is the youngest in her family. This book is about Olga and her family going through tough times. During this book Olga's family gets separated, Olga moves from family to family, and many more horrible things happen to her. Olga and her brother get sent away to England because it is too dangerous to stay in Germany when Hitler is becoming Chancellor. This book takes place in Germany, during World War II.
In Kindertransport the chapters move quickly from one to another; sometimes you have to go back through the chapter to catch up on what you were reading the day before. Some advice that I would give to someone that wants to read this book is to be prepared for anything. There are so many different moods in this book that you will end up crying, laughing, feeling sad, and feeling like you would have wanted to be back in the time of Hitler, so you could have tried to stop him.
I think the most important theme for Kindertransport is that, no matter what happens to you or your family, you can always get through the tough times without them. I think that is the theme because Olga went through hard times and didn't have her parents there to support her when she really needed it. Olga survived without her parents for so long, is because she had a lot of faith, and, new that she would see her parents again some day.
I would recommend this book to people that like to learn about history and to people that don't know very much about Hitler and World War II. Also this book gives you another look at World War II because you get to know what happens to the children, not what happens in Germany, or what happens in the concentration camps.
I would give this book about 4 stars because this book is amazing, exciting, and very funny. But the bad thing about the book is that it goes way too fast from one chapter to another. I would have given this book 5 stars if the book went slower through the chapters, and maybe had a little more detail in some chapters that a lot happened in them.

Kindertransport is a fun book to read if you like a holocaust book. If you don't mind death camps then you will like to read this book. It give you info on the holocaust, and how they were treated. It is a wonderful book.

Prior to the beginning of World War II, a heroic effort was made to transport as many Jewish children as possible out of Germany. these efforts rescued over 10,000 Jewish children. Ollie's mother made arrangements for her eleven year old daughter to join the kindertransport and reach safety in England. Unable to speak English, Ollie is shuffled from home to home until at the age of 16 she leaves school to work for a family of seven. This is a touching memoir, which brings Ollie and her existence to life. Although her circumstances weren't perfect, she was able to survive and even thrive in a new country.