The Greenies

It's 1947. Danny, 17, survived the Buchenwald concentration camp, but lost his entire family. Now all he wants is to come to Canada, go to school and get a job. Lilli, an Auschwitz survivor, has also been orphaned and is waiting patiently for a new life in Canada. Marilyn is a Canadian teen for whom friends and high school are high priorities. The worlds of all three are about to collide. Dreaming of a place where food doesn't have to be secretly hoarded, where dogs are friendly and people don't treat you like cattle, Danny and Lilli just want to fit in. Marilyn just wants everyone to be normal. But normal for Canadians is strange and perplexing to the orphans who have survived such abnormal atrocities. The Greenies is an inspiring novel based on real-life experiences of those "green" newcomers, a group of over one thousand orphaned Jewish children who, with the help of the Canadian Jewish Congress, immigrated to Canada after World War II.