Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival
Title | Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Prins |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2014-03-25 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0545543630 |
For readers of The Boy Who Dared and Prisoner B-3087, a collection of unforgettable true stories of children hidden away during World War II. Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, he would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids. But he would live.This is just one of the true stories told in Hidden Like Anne Frank, a collection of eye-opening first-person accounts that share the experience of going into hiding to escape the Holocaust. Some were just toddlers when they were hidden; some were teenagers. Some hid with neighbors or family, while many were with complete strangers. But all know the pain of losing their homes, their families, even their own names. They describe the secret network that kept them safe. And they share the coincidences and close calls that made all the difference.
Hidden Like Anne Frank
Title | Hidden Like Anne Frank PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Prins |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | Hidden children (Holocaust) |
ISBN | 9780606380522 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Inspired by the author's mother's experiences as a Holocaust survivor in hiding, a collection of true accounts traces the survival efforts of Jewish-European children who, like Anne Frank, went into hiding during World War II to escape Nazi persecution.
Hidden
Title | Hidden PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Prins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Hidden children (Holocaust) |
ISBN | 9781407149042 |
Everyone reads the compelling story of Anne Frank and wants to know more. How many others were hidden away during the war? How and where? Were they separated from their families? Did they ever find each other again? Hidden tells the stories of 14 young people who were hidden throughout the Netherlands during World War Two. Their stories create a wider picture of what it meant to be Jewish in Europe during World War Two, and what it took to survive.
Anne Frank Remembered
Title | Anne Frank Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Miep Gies |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-05-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439127476 |
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty.
After Auschwitz
Title | After Auschwitz PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Schloss |
Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2013-04-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 144476070X |
Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated. The news came some months later. Tragically, both men had been killed. Before the war, in Amsterdam, Eva had become friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though their fates were very different, Eva's life was set to be entwined with her friend's for ever more, after her mother Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953. This is a searingly honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear, her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be. But this is also an exploration of what happened next, of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war and to continue the work of her step-father Otto, ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten.
Survivors of the Holocaust
Title | Survivors of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Kath Shackleton |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1492688940 |
"Perhaps there is no simple, easy way to educate children about the Holocaust. Yet [this] new extraordinary work in the form of a nonfiction graphic novel for children is a valiant attempt to do just that. These testimonials... serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again."—BookTrib Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors' courage. These remarkable testimonials serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again. Features a current photograph of each contributor and an update about their lives, along with a glossary and timeline to support reader understanding of this period in world history.
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
Title | Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Frank |
Publisher | Bantam |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2003-03-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0553586386 |
The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration. Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne’s story, however. This book rounds out the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author. Newly translated, complete, and restored to the original order in which Anne herself wrote them in her notebook, Tales from the Secret Annex is a collection of Anne Frank’s lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel, Cady’s Life.