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Alison Leslie Gold
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Publisher | Bloomsbury | ||
ISBN | 9780747592242 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
This memoir is the amazing story of striving to live a normal life, when everything arounds you becomes more and more abnormal. It is a story about friendships and dreams of romances, a story about daily struggles and small victories set against a backdrop of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam and all the dangers that time held for Jews in the city. Through this remarkable book, we get to meet a remarkable real-life heroine whose determination, optimism and wonderful spirit are the qualities that both ensured enjoyment of life as well as the tenacity to survive. When Hannah and her family are arrested and transported to Bergen Belsen (where Hannah has one final and emotional reunion with Anne Frank), it is Hannah's courage that saves the lives of herself and her younger sister. This is a truly remarkable book that tells us more about the lives of ordinary people during World War Two than any history book can.
Review
This is a wonderful book which draws on the friendship of Hannah Goslar has with Anne Frank. Anne Frank, as many will know wrote an amazing diary of her life hiding so as not to be caught by the Germans' in World War II. Between them the two books of Anne Frank's Diary and Hannah Gosler Remembers they tell of how they as Jews were treated by the Germans living though the the second world war
Hannah remembers the times they spent at school before Anne disappeared, she had presummed they had gone over the border to Switzerland - but NO they were to meet again in one of the internment camps belonging to the Germans. Hannah expresses her shock at finding that Anne had not escaped over the border and that the people on the other side of the fence from their camp were being starved worse than they were themselves so she tries to save some rations to throw over the fence to Anne. The first time it does not work because one of the other internees catches the package. The second time Anne does catch the parcel but Hannah never hears of her again.
This was a moving account but a real short read and brings into perspective what happens to people when the were interned in the camps during the war. I loved the book as I had The Diary of Anne Frank it was great to read a story of someone who was in Anne's books well as reading about Anne in Hannah's book.
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