Book 2013
My Family for the War
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- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Children's fiction
- Identity, fiction
- Jews, fiction
- England, fiction
- Refugees, fiction
- Great britain, history, fiction
Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.