The girl with no name

By Diney Costeloe

Subjects: Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, England, fiction, Kindertransports (Rescue operations), Fiction, general, Jewish refugees, Fiction, sagas, World War, 1939-1945, War & Military, FICTION, Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Historical

Description: Speaking no English and carrying a precious photograph of the family she left behind in Germany crammed into her small suitcase thirteen-year-old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. After being adopted, her new home and life are blown apart during the Blitz. Waking up in the hospital with no memory, authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children's home.