As Lisa is practicing at the Royal Academy, there is bustle and exctiement on the streets of London! The War is over!! She runs out into the street and joins in the celebration!! What do you think will happen now? How will she find her family, and what would you do in her position?
Lisa Jura and her family struggle with what to do as a family after Kristallnacht. Her parents decide to send Lisa on the Kindertransport to live with a cousin she has never met. She is going to a country that she has never been to and she does not speak the same language. Her mother asks her to make a promise to hold on to her music. Why do you think she says this? Also, her mother gives her a picture. What do you think Lisa is feeling as she leaves on the train? How would you feel going by yourself to a new country that speaks a different language by yourself?
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