My Hundred Children

This was Lena's true account of her life during and after WWII in Poland. She was almost caught and taken to a concentration camp but she escaped. She survived the years of the war because she was in isolated and who took care of some kids, kinda like in Narnia. The war ended and she was a teacher at this school for orphaned kids. She started rescuing the Jewish kids from the concentration camps because she went looking for her missing family members. She was schooling them and getting as much aid that she could. She eventually leads them over the border into one the neighboring countries to the East of Germany to save them from the discrimination against them. What made me most fascinated about this book was that even after the war Jewish people were still receiving discrimination and hate. They were denied entrance to a public school just on the fact that they were Jewish. I liked the perspective because I never really thought about it in that way before. It was good, it could have been a little shorter, and I wish she would have talked about what happened after they passed the border.