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02252aam a2200325 4500 001 9EBC8AF66CB211EE935F82A422ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231017010119 008 230906s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1499813570 020 $a 9781499813579 035 $a (OCoLC)1347430329 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Shayne, Ralph, $e author. 245 1 $a Hour of Need : $b The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During World War II. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2023. 300 $a 170 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. 490 1 $a Graphic Readers 520 $a In the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, legend had it that if danger ever come to Denmark, the mighty warrior Holger Danske promised to wake from his centuries-long slumber to protect its citizens. When the Nazis move to round up young Mette and her fellow Danish Jews in a surprise raid in 1943 after years of letting Denmark rule its people, her father must make life and death decisions to save his family. Overnight, they have become refugees at the mercy of the complete strangers they meet during their escape. The mythical Holger Danske's promise to the Danish people manifests in the compassion and bravery of a school teacher turned resistance leader and other ordinary citizens who bravely defy the Nazi regime to come to her rescue in her hour of need. Told from the point of view of Mette returning to Denmark years later with her grandchildren, Hour of Need tells the story of how the people of an occupied nation--from king to fisherman--risked their lives to evacuate their Jewish countrymen to Sweden in small fishing boats. Hour of Need is a tribute to the heroes that saved the Danish Jews and how humanity triumphs in the darkest hours. 541 $d 20230919. 650 $a Jews $x Persecutions $z Europe $v Juvenile literature. 650 $a Holocasut, Jewish (1939-1945.) 650 $a World War, 1939-1945. 700 $a Goldberg, Tatiana, $e illustrator. 830 $a Graphic Readers. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320010535.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20240223010423.0 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20231017011333.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9EBC8AF66CB211EE935F82A422ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search