Title: Clearing the bar
Description: Sixteen year old Gretel Bergmann was one of Germany's most promising young athletes - a rising star. Her speciality was the high jump, and her dream was to be chosen for the upcoming Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. But Gretel was a Jew, and to be a Jew in Nazi Germany was to suffer discrimination and persecution.
Subjects: Juvenile literature, Jewish women athletes, Social conditions, Jews, Persecutions, History, Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany), Olympic Games. fast (OCoLC)fst01408249
Places: Germany
People: Gretel Bergmann (1914-2017)
Time periods: 20th century