night lights
the night crossing
illus . in black and white . its hard to leave your home and friends but the nazis have invaded claras native austria and her jewish family is no longer safe . clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the swiss border where they hope to escape to freedom . soldiers are everywhere and it is claras heroism that carries the family across the border their lives and few precious possessions intact .
in 1938 having begun to feel the persecution that all jews are experiencing in their austrian city clara and her family escape over the mountains into switzerland .