Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar

6 reviews

amandas_bookshelf's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

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

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

Zionism, occupation of Palestine

kevin_the_intern's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Deportation, Genocide, Death, War, Antisemitism, Vomit, and Grief

britt_thebookworm's review

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent

crumpledjacket's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

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

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