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Hachette Book Group. ISBN. 978-0-446-69027-0. The Children of Willesden Lane is a memoir by Mona Golabek, documenting the life of her mother, Lisa, from the time she left Vienna, Austria to the end of World War II. It has been adapted into a film and an organization formed in honor of the book, that is dedicated to empowering people with the arts.
The Children of Willesden Lane. by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen. THE CHILDREN OF WILLESDEN LANE is a wonderful little book --- at. times heartbreaking but, ultimately, inspirational. It tells the. true story of Lisa Jura, who in 1938 was a promising 14-year-old. pianist living happily in Vienna with her close-knit Jewish family.
Feb 23, 2017 · The Children of Willesden Lane is the powerful true story of Lisa Jura, who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child. Jura was one of 10,000 young refugees who were separated from their parents and brought to England for safety before World War II.
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Shortly after Kristallnacht, 14 year-old Lisa, a musical prodigy, escaped the Nazis aboard the Kindertransport train to England where her music gave her the strength to survive one of the darkest periods in history. Lisa Jura’s incredible story has become the bestselling book, The Children of Willesden Lane.
To Children's Holiday Camp/Essex, p.47 ¶4 To Brighton, p.50 ¶1 Biking to London/Bloomsbury House, p.64 To Willesden Lane, p.72 To Mrs. Canfield's house, p.147 ¶6 Acceptance to Royal Academy p. 213 ¶3 Piano at the Howard Hotel p.225 Meeting Michael Jura p. 238 ¶2, p.268 ¶4 War is Over p.244 ¶1 Moving to Mrs. Canfield's p.258 ¶7
Nov 14, 2021 · This is the true story of how Lisa escaped Nazi-controlled Austria just before the outbreak of World War Two on the Kindertransport. Taken to England and housed in a home for refugee children on London's Willesden Lane, she must make new friends and a new family and find a way to endure the years of war.
Mar 30, 2016 · LONDON — BBC Films has partnered with Robert Shapiro, who was an exec producer on “Empire of the Sun,” to produce the movie adaptation of the book by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, “The ...
