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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.
- Memoir
- Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen
- English
- Hachette Book Group
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.
The Children of Willesden Lane represents an unusual opportunity to educate and inspire current and future generations of students and teachers in the lessons of history and human perseverance. By maximizing the book’s message through this incisive curriculum developed by Facing History and
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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 and dreaming of following the musical footsteps of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and ...
The Children of Willesden Lane has both historical and contemporary relevance, and Montgomery’s city-wide reading is designed to spark dialogue on both the past and the present. Specific goals include: k introducing students to the upcoming 9th-grade study of World War ii and the holocaust;
The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek is a profoundly moving memoir that illuminates the power of music and resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity. Set against the backdrop of World War II, this captivating narrative follows the remarkable journey of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish girl with a prodigious talent for playing the piano.
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.
