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amandas_bookshelf's review
5.0
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
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 Palestinekevin_the_intern's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Deportation, Genocide, Death, War, Antisemitism, Vomit, and Grief
wordsofclover's review against another edition
5.0
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.
Moderate: Antisemitism and War
Minor: Death of parent and Child death
britt_thebookworm's review
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, War, Genocide, Murder, and Grief
Moderate: Death of parent
saibhandari's review against another edition
5.0
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.
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