And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain

Author

Elisabeth Åsbrink

Original Work

And in the Vienna Woods The Trees Remain

Translator

Saskia Vogel

Language

English

Year

2020

Publisher

Other Press

Country

United States

Pages

448

ISBN

9781590519172

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Winner of the August Prize, the story of the complicated long-distance relationship between a Jewish child and his forlorn Viennese parents after he was sent to Sweden in 1939, and the unexpected friendship the boy developed with the future founder of IKEA, a Nazi activist. Otto Ullmann, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jewish refugees, thirteen-year-old Otto was granted permission to enter the country— Google Books