Red Danube: A Hungarian Memoir – Vera Hartley humour Five Jewish athletes survived incarceration

Five Jewish athletes survived incarceration by the Nazis and competed at the Olympics

Two generations later

bringing to light their resilience

This is about a different kind of Jewish diaspora

author Caryn Yacowitz and illustrator Kevin Hawkes bring to life a tale drawn from the ancient Jewish stories known as the Midrash

Red Danube: A Hungarian Memoir – Vera Hartley humour Five Jewish athletes survived incarcerationRed Danube: A Hungarian Memoir by Vera Hartley Red Danube intertwines politics and history with fly on the wall glimpses of life spiced by a challenging relationship between the author and her mother, Erzsi. It tells of everyday events that might happen anywhere in the world. The stroke of a pen in the signing of a treaty, or a small change in the law, for some citizens meant the loss of a way of life, or status, or security. These stories are about