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After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside (Paperback)
Tom Palmer (author), Violet Tobacco (illustrator)Published: 06/08/2020
Longlisted for the The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021
Summer 1945.
The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of safety and peace, where they can hopefully begin to recover.
But Yossi is haunted by thoughts of his missing father and disturbed by terrible nightmares. As he waits desperately for news from home, he fears that Mordecai and Leo - the closest thing to family he has left - will move on without him. Will life by the beautiful Lake Windermere be enough to bring hope back into all their lives?
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781781129487
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 180 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 17 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"The best children's fiction book I've yet read about the Holocaust" – Tim Robertson, CEO of Anne Frank Trust UK "Devastatingly moving and massively important, and crucially, fantastically accessible" – Books for Keeps "[Palmer's] most compelling bit of real-life hidden history yet" – The Letterpress Project "A touching, concisely told yet never dumbed-down, story of childhood during wartime. If you are new to his books, then prepare to be astounded" – Books for Topics "Full of heart and hope" – INIS
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“A wonderful book”
I cannot recommend this book enough.
Written with care and consideration, this book was full of hope.
Tom Palmer has written a book about the aftermath of such an event in a sensitive manner
A must read
“Poignant, warm and important”
Set just as World War II ends we meet Auschwitz survivor, Yossi, and his friends as they journey by plane to England.
Yossi brings with him a head full of memories along with a stolen spoon as his only physical...
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“Packed with emotion, hope and history!”
After the War is based on the true story of 300 Jewish children brought to Calgarth Estate, near Lake Windermere in the Lake District after the Second World War.
In it, we see Yossi, Leo and Mordecai settling into...
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