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January‘s book club selection. I‘m glad this story was written as it‘s a great piece of history to know about. I recently learned about the Kindertransport from a children‘s non-fiction picture book I came across at work, Stars of the Night, and found this to be a nice historical fiction tie-in. The first half was kinda slow and boring but the story did pick up. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

I feel bad about this because I‘ve enjoyed other books by this author, but my mind kept wandering and I couldn‘t stay focused on the story. I think in this instance, the audiobook format may not have been the best choice.

I feel like this book could easily be a movie with Meryl Streep as Tante Truss!

Absolutely loved this one

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PROMPT: GOOD-HEARTED WOMAN by Waylon Jennings 🎶

I'm here to help you were the words the children longed to hear and words they trusted belonged to Tante Truus who is an actual woman named Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer.

Focuses on saving Jewish children by this woman who is said to have saved 10,000 children.

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I knew nothing about the kindertransport or Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer, who helped save over 10,000 mostly Jewish children by getting them out of Germany and Austria and into England during WWII. I liked the book but it was quite slow. Overall still a pick though.

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Such a good and endearing book. Enjoyed very much

What does music offer? It is a type of sustenance in the worst of times. A young piano prodigy travels by the Kindertransport to London. There she forms beautiful relationships with fellow refugees and English coworkers. This is a beautiful ode to the determined spirits of these young people and the many talents and fears they carried with them.