Seeking refuge

By Irene N. Watts

Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Kindertransports (Rescue operations), Jewish girls, Cartoons and comics, World War, 1939-1945, Comic books, strips, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Graphic novels, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Refugees, History, Jews

Description: Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. 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. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded.