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Faraway Home (Paperback)
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Faraway Home (Paperback)
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Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade
down the streets of their home city -- Vienna. It has become very
dangerous to be a Jew in Austria, and after their uncle is sent to
Dachau, Karl and Rosa's parents decide to send the children out of
the country on a Kindertransport, one of the many ships carrying
refugee children away from Nazi danger. Isolated and homesick, Karl
ends up in Millisle, a run-down farm in Ards in Northern Ireland,
which has become a Jewish refugee centre, while Rosa is fostered by
a local family. Hard work on the farm keeps Karl occupied, although
he still waits desperately for any news from home. Then he makes
friends with locals Peewee and Wee Billy, and also with the girls
from neutral Dublin who come to help on the farm, especially Judy.
But Northern Ireland is in the war too, with rationing and air-raid
warnings, and, in April 1941 the bombs of the Belfast Blitz bring
the reality of war right to their doorstep. And for Karl and Rosa
and the other refugees there is the constant fear that they may
never see their parents again. Based on a true story -- there was a
refugee farm at Millisle and among its occupants was a young boy
called Karl.
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