Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar

2 reviews

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

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

saibhandari's review

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