Reviews tagging 'Child death'

My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar

8 reviews

sisforsony's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

thislifeadastra's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

This book contains vivid (non-graphic) depictions of The Holocaust, including the conditions of several camps and train journeys.

Antisemitism is tagged due to the nature of discrimination faced by the Jewish Population during this time and historical events referenced.

bookshelfhannah's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Deportation

andalucia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Child death and Confinement

drourick's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Suicide and Vomit

careinthelibrary's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Another angle, another perspective of Anne's life. Also fully realised as a memoir of Hannah Pick-Goslar, it doesn't steal focus too much on Anne's story, it allows Hannah's story to be told in the forefront.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

Zionism, occupation of Palestine

wordsofclover's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

In this moving memoir, Hannah Pick-Goslar narrates her extraordinary life from the time she and her parents moved from Germany in the wake of Hitler's rise to power and their new life in Amsterdam to the start of WW2 and the increased tensions and fear Jewish people felt all over the world, and the Gosslar's family incarceration in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Through the horror, Hannah holds on to her happy memories with her family and her friends, including Anne Frank whose diary would become famous following her death.

This was a brilliant book, and really well written and paced. Hannah's story is so hard to read at times and it's so hard to believe that these atrocities happened and not just to her family but to millions of Jewish people, and others Hitler opposed. But Hannah's strength, intelligence and positive attitude prevails throughout the story even as she is faced with increased restrictions as a Jewish person in the Netherlands, the death of her beloved mother and their her teenage years snatched away due to her imprisonment in the camps. I loved Hannah's family from her mother and father, to her gentle grandparents and her ever loving aunts and uncles living abroad and always searching for trapped family. I also really felt emotional at Hannah's relationship with Otto Frank following the war and how he helped the girl who was his daughter's best friend and he became a grandfather figure for her children.

I just thought this was a brilliant book, and Dina Kraft who wrote this book for Hannah Pick-Gosslar did an amazing job and helped a wonderful woman put her unbelievable life journey into words to share with the world. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism and War

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

saibhandari's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC!

A phenomenal and heartbreaking read - this book has left a big impression on me! 

Published posthumously, this memoir by Hannah Pick-Goslar tells the story of her childhood in Amsterdam, having fled there following the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany. 

I think it's difficult to "review" someone's life story, so I won't try - but what I will say is that this book was truly informative and written with immense clarity, whilst retaining an incredibly human touch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Pregnancy