"Journey to America" describes the [Platt family's] escape from Nazi Germany in direct, unsentimental prose.
The author briefly sketches the humdrum background of Lisa's life: the ballet lessons, skating parties and schoolgirl pranks. Firmly anchored to reality by the warmth and devotion of her family, the girl succeeds in transforming fear into action, pain into humor as she is plunged into a nightmare world of storm troopers, indifferent bureaucrats and extortionists who prey on the misfortune of others…. Lisa's subsequent adoption by a Christian family is a joyful prelude to the family's ultimate reunion in America.
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