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The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
The Children of Willesden Lane Beyond the Kindertransport A Memoir of Music Love and Survival
Author: Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen
With the raw emotion of The Diary of Anne Frank, Mona Golabek's powerful memoir is a poignant story of tragedy and triumph in a time of war.Famed concert pianist Mona Golabek shares the inspirational true story of her mother's escape from pre-World War II Vienna to an orphanage in London--243 Willesden Lane. "The music will give you strength...i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446690270
ISBN-10: 0446690279
Publication Date: 11/2003
Pages: 288
Rating:
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4 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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This was an extremely memorable and well-written Holocaust story from a point of view not often described. Lisa Jura was one of the 10,000 German, Austrian, Polish and other Jewish children sent to England on the Kindertransport, to escape from the onslaught of the Nazi regime and the (at that time) unimagined horrors of World War II that were to come. The children were given lodging at various hostels, and put to work to earn their keep as nannies, maids, and in factories. Lisa Jura had been learning piano during her former life in Vienna, and started secretly using the piano in the hostel when she could. Her talent for piano was discovered, and she was awarded a scholarship to the London Academy of Music, and went on to become a world-renowned concert pianist. The story is told with pathos, humour and charm, by Lisa Jura's daughter, Mona Golabek, also a concert pianist. I usually read Holocaust memoirs at the same time while reading other books, but I can truthfully say, once I started this book, I could not put it down. I highly recommend it.
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Very fast read following the life of one Kindertransport girl, her family and friends before, through and after WWII. Reads a little like a book written for teens but very interesting nonetheless.
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One of the most inspiring books I've ever read!!!!!! I absolutely loved it!
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