Lisa Jura and WW II

German Nazis were throwing bricks through the windows of Jewish homes and Jewish businesses, German patriotic music was blaring over the Austrian Radio. meanwhile the apartments were burning, the bucket brigade (including Lisa's father) was forced to strip down and scrub the street by German Nazi's who came to Austria

Lisa's piano teacher, Mr.Issles is informed of the new proclamation, that it is lillegal to teach Jewish children. Lisa was greeted with a Nazi at the door of Mr.Isseles's studio, who refused to let her in until the professor told him that Lisa could come in for her piano lesson

Lisa is put on the Kindertransport, with the promise that the rest of her family will follow. She is shipped off to her mother's cousins in England

Lisa is picked up by a chaffeur named monty and is to work as a maid for the owner an his wife.

arrives at the hostel to ask Mr. Hardesty about her sister's place on the Kindertransport and to find boarding in London

Lisa finds boarding with Mrs. Cohen, a German-Jewish woman who boards over 31 other Jewish children in a 3-story house. Lisa is to find a job to secure her place at the house and give 3/4 of her earnings as rent and to cover food costs.

She is sponsored by one of Mrs. Canfeild's Quaker friends, who offered to take care of her

they ask the warden for binoculars and whistles to pitch in with the rest of London by searching for bomber planes, if they were to see a plane, they would use the whistle and the warden would sound the air raid alarm, giving people enough time to reach the bomb shelters.

they stop due to the oncoming cold weather, despite the blankets and huddling together.