From the New York Times bestselling novelist Meg Waite Clayton comes a powerful novel set in
the pre?World War II era based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand
children from Nazi-occupied Europe?and of one brave woman who helped them escape. In 1936 the
Nazis are little more than brutish boors to fifteen-year-old Stephan Neuman a budding
playwright and the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family in Vienna Austria. Stephan's
best friend and companion is the brilliant ?ofie-Helene a Christian girl whose mother edits a
progressive anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when
Hitler's forces advance. There is hope in the darkness though. Truus Wijsmuller a childless
Dutchwoman risks her life to smuggle children out of Nazi-occupied lands to the nations that
will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous as countries across Europe
close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape after the Anschluss
Hitler's annexation of Austria. Tante Truus as she is known is determined to save as many
children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in young refugees from the German
Reich she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann the man who would later help devise the ?Final
Solution to the Jewish Question.? Truus then sets off in a race against time to lead hundreds
of children on a perilous journey to freedom.
