Central Kansas Library System

Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939-- the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States. In early 1939, America's rigid immigration laws made it virtually impossible for European Jews to seek safe haven in the United States. As deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped...

Rebecca Lopez is beautiful and willful in a time when women simply don't do such things. She craves the kind of adventures set aside for the young men of her time. During her struggles with arranged marriage, swordfights, and religious persecution she discovers the person she truly is.