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Clearing the bar : one girl's Olympic dream / Robert Hume ; illustrated by Cheryl Ives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Broadstairs, Kent : Stone Publishing House, 2012.Description: ix, 137 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780954990947 (paperback) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.432092 23
Summary: Sixteen year old Gretel Bergmann was one of Germany's most promising young athletes - a rising star. Her speciality was the high jump, and her dream was to be chosen for the upcoming Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. But Gretel was a Jew, and to be a Jew in Nazi Germany was to suffer discrimination and persecution.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 796.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available r13662w0499

Formerly CIP. Uk

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Sixteen year old Gretel Bergmann was one of Germany's most promising young athletes - a rising star. Her speciality was the high jump, and her dream was to be chosen for the upcoming Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. But Gretel was a Jew, and to be a Jew in Nazi Germany was to suffer discrimination and persecution.

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