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164 pp.
| Holiday |
March, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1447-7$$18.95
(2)
YA
From interviews with twenty-one people who, at the time of the 1940 Nazi takeover of Denmark, were between the ages of two and twenty-eight, this book chronicles the men, women, and children whose large and small acts of resistance saved almost all eight thousand Danish Jews. Levine rounds out the portrait of a brave nation with the reality of its own Nazi membership, its traitors, and its failed attempts at rescue as well as its successes. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2000