TY - BOOK AU - Hume,Robert AU - Ives,Cheryl TI - Clearing the bar: one girl's Olympic dream SN - 9780954990947 (paperback) : U1 - 796.432092 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Broadstairs, Kent PB - Stone Publishing House KW - Bergmann, Gretel, KW - Olympic Games KW - (11th KW - 1936 KW - Berlin, Germany) KW - Juvenile literature KW - Jewish women athletes KW - Germany KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - Jews KW - Persecutions KW - History N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 ER -