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4-6Encounter series.
The history behind the mass evacuation of Jewish and other vulnerable children from Germany to the UK during WWII is given multifaceted treatment in this middle-grade nonfiction volume. Recollections, poems, photographs, and other primary sources factor into touching and often heartbreaking narrative profiles of seven real kinder. A final chapter details each subject's "life after the Kindertransport." Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind.