We Had To Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson

Interest Level: Young Adult

Reading Level: NR
Lexile: 990L
Genre: Nonfiction

The Kindertransport was a rescue effort in 1938-1940 during World War II that sent children to other countries in order to escape the Nazis. Through the moving and heart-wrenching personal accounts, Kindertransport survivors tell of the rise of Hitler and the Nazis which resulted in lives and families torn apart in order to safe the children.

This book is so powerful and moving. It is so hard to believe that mankind could ever do something so horrifying as kill millions of individuals for their religious beliefs. But it did happen and so 'those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it'. I hope and pray that the human race never lets anything like the holocaust happen again. I recommend this book for middle school students to adults.