My train to freedom : a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Europe to a life of activism
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My train to freedom : a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Europe to a life of activism
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- My train to freedom : a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Europe to a life of activism
- Title remainder
- a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Europe to a life of activism
- Statement of responsibility
- Ivan A. Backer
- Title variation
- My train to freedom
- Title variation remainder
- a Jewish boys journey from Nazi Europe to a life of activism
- Subject
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- trueWorld War II -- Jews | Rescue -- Great Britain
- Backer, Ivan A
- trueChild refugees
- trueChild refugees -- Biography
- trueCzech people
- trueCzechoslovakia
- trueEastern European people
- trueEngland
- trueGreat Britain
- trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
- Holocaust survivors -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography
- Holocaust survivors -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Human rights workers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueJewish children
- trueJewish children -- Biography
- trueJewish people
- trueJews, Czech
- trueKindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Czechoslovakia
- truePolitical activists
- Political activists -- Biography
- trueRailroad travel
- trueRefugees, Jewish
- trueRefugees, Jewish -- Great Britain
- trueRefugees, Jewish -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueUnited States
- trueWorld War II
- trueWorld War II -- Jewish people | Rescue
- trueWorld War II -- Jews | Rescue
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In May of 1939, as a ten-year-old boy, Ivan Backer boarded one of Sir Nicholas Winston's famous Kindertransports and fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom. Detailed in this true story is Backer's escape, his boyhood in England, his perilous 1944 voyage to America and his mantra today as an award-winning humanitarian and an activist for peace and justice
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Dewey number
- 940.53/18092
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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