Author: PROPP, VERA W.
Title: When the Soldiers Were Gone
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. Eighth Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 1422353109. Hardcover is grey with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. "Imagine finding out the people you call Mama and Papa are not really your parents. That's what happens to Henk the day a quiet, pale couple come to the farm to him away. His world is turned upsdie down when this man and woman say that his name is Benjamin and that he's Jewish. And that he must say good-bye to the only Mama and Papa he knows. During the war [WW2] Henk was made to hide when the Nazi soldiers came. Now the war is over and the soldiers have gone. It is time for Henk to leave the family he loves. Ahead of him lies a new, unfamiliar life, and a baby brother, and school. What will it be like to be Benjamin?" This historical fiction tale takes place in the Netherlands, and, alas, is all too true of what Jewish children all over Europe, and their families, birth and caretakers [Righteous Christians], were forced to endure to survive the Nazi attempt to rule all of Europe and annihilate all of the Jews they could find. Multiple copies. ; Remainder; 5 3/4 x 8; 101 pages; Black remainder mark on bottom of text block. Cover has some light shelf wear and bumping, DJ has light shelf wear and rubbing. Multiple copies available.. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 1422353109 Judaism; Jewish History; Religion; World War Ii; Holocaust; Righteous Gentiles; Juvenile Fiction: Historical Fiction; Nazi Germany; Historical Fiction Juvenile Fiction Cultural History Education European History History Geography Biography/Memo


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