The Secret Buttons was written and designed by local author and designer Ellen Shapiro. It’s March 1939. Anni Blum, age 12, and her rambunctious little sister Rosie are put on a train leaving Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria, for England. Papa is in a labor camp and Mutti (mommy), realizing that things will not get better, has worked hard to arrange forged passports and domestic servant visas via relatives in England. The frightened girls are squ…
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