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In the autumn of 1940, when Anna Hirsch, her friends, and family, are rounded up by Nazis and deported to Gurs, a refugee camp in the south of France, they see little hope on the horizon. But the children held in the camp are sent on to Le Chambon, a tiny village whose citizens have agreed to care for deported children. There, in the face of escalating dominance and threats from the Nazi party, and regardless of the risk to themselves, the good people of Le Chambon protect the refugees who seek asylum in their homes.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 6-8ÄSet in Vichy, France, this novel covers a section of Europe often overlooked in Holocaust literature. Anna, 13, along with her mother, her aunt, and grandmother, are deported from Germany to Gurs, a refugee camp on the French-Spanish border. The details of the journey and the terrible conditions there are vividly and realistically described. Anna's grandmother dies and the girl's mother and aunt are eventually removed to a concentration camp and never heard from again. Relief workers arrange for Anna and some of the other young people to be sent to the village of Le Chambon where French citizens take them in and allow them to live with some semblance of normalcy. Anna is a strong young woman with a flair for acting and singing and a penchant for telling corny jokes. She and her friends spend long hours discussing the "why" of what is happening to the Jews of Europe, trying to understand a universe in which such evil could exist. A budding romance between Anna and Rudi, a childhood friend, gives a little extra zest to the plot. The French gendarmes who are collaborating with the Nazis provide a sharp contrast to the actions of the local people, who literally risk their lives to help the Jewish children. A map clearly shows the areas where the story takes place. In an afterword, Matas tells of interviews she had with survivors who spent the war years in Le Chambon. This well-researched historical novel will make a good addition to middle-school collections.ÄBruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Matas (Daniel's Story) again returns to the Holocaust as the setting for this sturdy if earthbound work. Her topic this time is the tiny French village of Le Chambon, famous for offering help to all of the approximately 2500 Jews who sought refuge there during WWII. Matas's heroine, young Anna Hirsch, remains plucky when she, her mother, aunt and elderly grandmother are deported from their home in Germany in 1940 and sent to France (she tells jokes on the train). They are sent to the detention camp at Gurs; Anna, unbowed by the wretched conditions, helps arrange concerts, learns some French and has theological debates with her friends. The story picks up when Anna is sent to Le Chambon and the emphasis shifts from Anna's indomitable spirit to well-researched descriptions of the villagers' resistance, under the leadership of the pastors Andr Trocm and Eduoard Theis. Anna, too, becomes involved with the resistance, helping deliver false identification papers. Suspense grows as Anna and a younger girl hide in the woods after news of an impending raid reaches Le Chambon, and the danger culminates in an attempt to lead the younger girl and a boy into Switzerland. Although Matas neglects to explain what happened to Trocm and Theis after her story ends (Milton Meltzer's book Rescue will prove a useful companion), she offers an inspiring and memorable lesson in courage. Ages 12-up. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Matas pays tribute to the righteous citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in Vichy, France, who risked their lives to save the many Jews who took refuge there during the Nazi occupation. Anna's voice is distinct, and the fictional account of these wartime saviors of teenage Anna Hirsch and her friends never dissolves into the romanticism of heroes and victims. From HORN BOOK Fall 1998, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 7-10. The historical facts are compelling--Jewish children hidden from the Nazis by the people of the small French village of Le Chambon--and this docu-novel draws heavily on true accounts of those who were rescued. However, the sprawling narrative is confusing, with purposive scenes and explanatory dialogue wedged into an account that lacks the clear focus of Matas' After the War (1996). The story is told by 15-year-old Anna Hirsch, who is hiding in a woodpile in the village and remembering how she got there: first, the deportation with her family from Germany to the French refugee camp of Gurs, a place of hunger, filth, and death; then her journey with other young people to Le Chambon, where the Swiss Red Cross helps care for them and where almost every family is hiding someone. Later, she describes her attempts to escape over the border to Switzerland. Anna is cheery and defiant, a talented actor, full of jokes to shut out the terror, always debating how God could let this happen. It's jarring when she talks like a contemporary teen ("I thought perhaps I'd died and gone to heaven"), but readers will be caught by her spirit and by the inspiring rescue adventure. This will work best with those who know the background history. (Reviewed April 15, 1998)0689813538Hazel Rochman