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020			_a9780062989994
037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bMEG/LA
100			_aMeg Waite Clayton
245			_aLAST TRAIN TO LONDON : Novel
250			_a1
260			_aNew York _bHarper Collins Publishers _c2019/01/01
300			_g451
500			_aIn 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss—Hitler’s annexation of Austria—as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.
650			_aFiction.
650			_aAustria--Vienna.
650			_aJewish refugees.
650			_aJewish refugees.
650			_aJews.
650			_aMeg Waite Clayton.
650			_aAmerican novelist.
650			_aKindertransports (Rescue operations).
942			_cLEN
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