Title: The children's war
First published: 2004
Description: This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Morocco to Paris, a city made hectic at the threat of Nazi invasion. At the same time in Germany, Nicolai, a boy miserably destined for the Nazi Youth movement, finds comfort in the friendship of Ilse’s mother, the nursemaid hired to take care of his young sister.
Subjects: Jewish girls, Boys, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Children, Large type books, Paris (france), fiction, Germany, fiction, Jews, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Places: Germany, Hamburg, Paris, Hamburg (Germany), Paris (France), France