![]() ![]() “Shoemaker’s quiet, silvery-pencilled panels soften this Holocaust narrative, a companion to Goodbye Marianne. ![]() that will spark interest in the plight of all refugees.” - starred review Kirkus Review “A wonderfully rendered marriage between text and art. While the book is recommended for ages nine and older, adults, too, will find it engrossing.” - The Jewish Chronicle ![]() ![]() “ Seeking Refuge contains much about hope and the resilience of the spirit in times of adversity. Watts was one of them, arriving on the second Kindertransport in December 1938 at the age of seven. Marianne’s story is based on the kind of events that were actually experienced by the children. The Kindertransport ultimately saved of almost 10,000 children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the nine months preceding World War II was a unique and triumphant human effort. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another– (em dash)but there is a surprise in store and Marianne’s courage and resilience is finally rewarded. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. Marianne deeply misses her family, whom she had to leave behind. Life in the new country seems strange, her few words of English and her attempts to become an ordinary English girl are not enough to please her foster mother, who wanted a girl as a domestic servant. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. ![]()
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