During these stormy years, hundreds of thousands of families left the Plains, abandoning [(不得已而)舍弃,丢弃,离开]their homes and fields. Millions of acres of farmland had become useless. Still the dust continued to blow—but at less intense levels—until 1939! The areas hardest hit by ...
Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a train that transports several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she finds herself living in “other people’s houses”: the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewis...