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A review by cjwilkinson
Far to Go by Alison Pick
4.0
"You wanted to protect him? Look what your protection has done. Now he can't get out of the country at all."
"Who was it? The secretary?"
"Yes, the Secretary. And you can guess what he said"
"There must be something we can do"
"No," Pavel Said. "He made it very clear. The decision was Winston's, in fact. Because, you see, there are so many Jewish children desperate to get out that is simply doesn't make sense to send those with a Christian baptismal certificate."
Far To Go: Alison Pick.
A family living in Sudetenland in a peaceful life.
A mother, Annalise, Father, Pavel, and Son, Pepik. Along with his nanny Marta.
Hitler however is on the move, and is soon able to take Sudetenland, and the family is forced to move to Prague. Although this is soon over run as well.
The family is forced to make some heartbreaking decisions to keep their family safe, but also to keep Pepik, their only son, in safe keeping, and out of the hands of Hitler.
The story, which is most entirely in Marta's point of view, takes a sudden shift to Pepik.
He is able to, after some 'convincing' from his father, able to leave on one of the last 'Kindertransport' trains out of Prague.
Pepik takes the story at this point, and goes into a 6 year olds view of the Kindertransport, and his thoughts, feelings, fears and hopes, as he makes his way to, and stays with his first foster family in Scotland. Also the heart wrenching period of time alongside his foster brother, and the transition from his first foster family, to an orphanage.
My View:
This book is absolutely terrible, but good.
I have always been interested in the time of Hitler, and the Holocaust, and stories like these, make my skin crawl. Even more so, since I am at least half German.
The book is, although fictional, written based off of Alison's own research, into her own family history, and events that she pieced together, although the accuracy is, of course, in question.
I also love, that at the end, it has a mini-memoir about Alison and her genealogy quest, along with her decision to convert to her ancestor religion of Judaism, a religion that had been weeded out of her immediate family during the Holocaust with the safer religion of Christianity.
It's a GOOD book!
I will most likely keep this book in my mind as one worthy to read again.
Picked it up at my local library.
- CJ
"Who was it? The secretary?"
"Yes, the Secretary. And you can guess what he said"
"There must be something we can do"
"No," Pavel Said. "He made it very clear. The decision was Winston's, in fact. Because, you see, there are so many Jewish children desperate to get out that is simply doesn't make sense to send those with a Christian baptismal certificate."
Far To Go: Alison Pick.
A family living in Sudetenland in a peaceful life.
A mother, Annalise, Father, Pavel, and Son, Pepik. Along with his nanny Marta.
Hitler however is on the move, and is soon able to take Sudetenland, and the family is forced to move to Prague. Although this is soon over run as well.
The family is forced to make some heartbreaking decisions to keep their family safe, but also to keep Pepik, their only son, in safe keeping, and out of the hands of Hitler.
The story, which is most entirely in Marta's point of view, takes a sudden shift to Pepik.
He is able to, after some 'convincing' from his father, able to leave on one of the last 'Kindertransport' trains out of Prague.
Pepik takes the story at this point, and goes into a 6 year olds view of the Kindertransport, and his thoughts, feelings, fears and hopes, as he makes his way to, and stays with his first foster family in Scotland. Also the heart wrenching period of time alongside his foster brother, and the transition from his first foster family, to an orphanage.
My View:
This book is absolutely terrible, but good.
I have always been interested in the time of Hitler, and the Holocaust, and stories like these, make my skin crawl. Even more so, since I am at least half German.
The book is, although fictional, written based off of Alison's own research, into her own family history, and events that she pieced together, although the accuracy is, of course, in question.
I also love, that at the end, it has a mini-memoir about Alison and her genealogy quest, along with her decision to convert to her ancestor religion of Judaism, a religion that had been weeded out of her immediate family during the Holocaust with the safer religion of Christianity.
It's a GOOD book!
I will most likely keep this book in my mind as one worthy to read again.
Picked it up at my local library.
- CJ