A Faraway Island (Hardcover)

from rebecca191

Following the invasion of Austria by the Nazis, two young Jewish sisters from Vienna, twelve-year-old Stephie Steiner and her eight-year-old sister, Nellie, are sent away by their parents to safety in Sweden. Their parents hopes the family can reunite soon and travel to a safer country, but short...

from crochetbunnii

Personal Response: I appreciate the attention paid to the experience of a smaller group of children (500), sent to Sweden during WWII. While more attention has been paid to efforts made in Great Britain and the US to save children from the Holocaust, this is an interesting perspective on the effo...

from thornton37814

Two Jewish sisters are evacuated from Austria to Sweden by the Swedish Aid Society. The story mostly follows the older sister Stephie who lives with "Aunt Marta" and "Uncle Evert" on a small island. Evert is a fisherman by trade, and the couple doesn't have much money. Nellie lives in the same vi...

from zeborah

Two sisters are part of the 500 Jewish children evacuated from Austria to Sweden; they end up in separate but nearby families on a small island. The younger fits in quickly, the elder (on whom the story focuses) is bullied at school and feels unwelcome at home. These are fairly predictable plot-s...

from amandabock

I read this because A) it won a Batchelder, and I love that award B) it is Swedish. I found it to be a bit tedious. OK, she's miserable and her sister isn't. I get it. So much time was spent building up just how horrible her life is, and how miserable it is, and then it was all fixed in a few cha...