Clearing the bar : one girl's Olympic dream
Hume, Robert, 1955-2012
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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.
Main title:
Clearing the bar : one girl's Olympic dream / Robert Hume.
Author:
Imprint:
Leicester : Matador, 2012.
Collation:
144 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780954990947 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.432092796.43
Language:
English
Subject:
Bergmann, Gretel, 1914- -- Juvenile literatureJewish women athletes -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureOlympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) -- Juvenile literatureJews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureNon-Fiction 9+Sport
BRN:
1494888