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  • MediaDB / «Last Train to London" by Meg Waite Clayton: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2020 / 1936. Vein. Fifteen-year-old Stefan and his girlfriend Zofie are having fun with friends: walking around the city, going to cafes, exploring Viennese dungeons. But everything changes dramatically when Hitler captures Austria in 1938. The Nazis kill Stefan's father, send his family to the ghetto, and Stefan himself is forced to go into hiding to avoid being sent to labor camps. Zofi's mother is arrested for publishing an anti-Nazi newspaper. For several years now, Gertrude Wismuller, risking her life, has been taking Jewish children from Germany to countries ready to accept them. She manages to negotiate with British representatives to accept refugee children and obtain permission from the government of the new Nazi Germany. The first train takes 600 children from Austria, including Stefan, his little brother and Zofie, to England. But what awaits them there? How many more such trains will Gertrud Wismuller be able to organize? And what is the fate of the last train to London? For the first time in Russian!