The war has officially ended, but the streets are still a battleground - for food, for shelter, for protection. When he's offered the chance to go to Australia, he seizes the opportunity. Fourteen year old Felix dreams of finding happiness elsewhere.
The war is over and Europe lies in ruins. The Nazis took my parents I was killed my best friend I was ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli. Sometimes facing the past is the bravest act of all.ONCE: I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood.THEN:I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda.NOW:I understand why Felix does the things he does.Īfter. In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape. Felix has been living in an orphanage for three years and eight months when the men in armbands arrive to burn the books.Going on the run in search of his parents, Felix soon learns that Poland in 1942 is not a safe place for Jewish boys.
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