Karen Ackerman – författare

It''s hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara''s native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are everywhere, adn it is Clara''s heroism that carries the family across teh border, thier lives adn few precious posessions intact.  From the Hardcover edition.