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Book

My friend Anne Frank : the inspiring and heartbreaking true story of best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds

Call Number

  • 940.5318 P5942 (OSH)

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Edition

First North American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2023.

Physical Description

313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary

"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank."--Kirkusreviews.com.

In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink--but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger. In this long-awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never-before-seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history.

Contents

  • Berlin
  • Amsterdam
  • New friends
  • Arrivals
  • Invasion
  • Aftershocks
  • The noose
  • Deportation
  • Westerbork
  • Limbo
  • Bergen-Belsen
  • Anne
  • The lost train
  • Liberation
  • Beterschap
  • Switzerland
  • Ghosts
  • The promised land.

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Added Authors

Dina Kraft