Henry's Red Sea

by Barbara Smucker, Allan Eitzen (Illustrator)

Overview

Barbara Smucker relates the dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia following World War II. This is a story of suspense—American soldiers, Russian officers, and a midnight train ride in darkened boxcars. Here is danger, escape, and deliverance. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946.

Easily read by ages 11 and up—but can be read to children of all ages!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780836113723
Publisher:	MennoMedia
Publication date:	01/01/1955
Series:	Christian Peace Shelf Series
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range:	9 - 14 Years

About the Author

Barbara Claassen Smucker (1915-2003) is the author of twelve children's books. Many of her books tell the stories of persecuted people looking for freedom, safety, and a better life. Intrigued by particular people groups, she has written about the Amish, Native Americans, Russian Mennonites, and escaped slaves. Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad won numerous prizes, including being named one of Canada's best fifty children's books of all time. Another book with characters of Mennonites from the Russian Ukrainian villages is Days of Terror, a story during the 1920s, just before Lenin came to power.

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

"Henry’s Red Sea tells the story of Mennonite farmers of the Russian Ukraine who fled to Germany, where they lived in refugee camps. It chronicles how Mennonite Central Committee and workers Elfrieda and Peter Dyck helped hundreds of refugees find homes in Paraguay and Canada. It is an exciting adventure story, but written through the eyes of faith and trust in God, including near-miraculous events. Henry’s Red Sea tells the immigrant history and the faith history of one branch of the Anabaptist family—and God’s heroic intervention in the lives of humans."

—CMW Journal