Shortly after the devastating Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938,
author Benjamin Hirsch's mother sends him and his four older
siblings on a Kindertransport to Paris from Frankfurt, Germany.
After almost three years of hiding in France, they escape through
Spain to Portugal where they board a ship and arrive in the United
States on two separate convoys, eventually settling in Atlanta,
Georgia. But Hirsch's parents and his younger siblings are not so
fortunate-they perish in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis.
Anti-Semitism is at its peak in the United States, and the
children must learn to adapt to an America at war. Growing up in
the American South as orphaned Jewish emigrants during the 1940s
and early 1950s, Hirsch and his four brothers and sisters
struggle-each in his or her own way-to hold on to their traditional
Jewish values and practices. But in the aftermath of war, the
children learn to thrive and excel in their new country.
The prequel to Hirsch's first book, "Hearing a Different
Drummer," "Home Is Where You Find It" poignantly chronicles
Hirsch's journey from the horrors of Nazism to a new life in
America.
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