Œuvres de Hannah Pick-Goslar
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 111
- Popularité
- #175,484
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 11
- Langues
- 2
One thing that is frustrating about is that there are two authors – Hannah and Dina Kraft, but we are not informed as to who has written which parts of the book.
Hannah tells us about her childhood in Berlin. We’re informed about her mother, who had been an elementary school teacher, and her father.
The latter was one of the highest-ranking Jewish officials in the government but in 1993 after the Nazis took power, he was put in “indefinite suspension”.
Owing to the danger for Jews after Hitler’s coming into power, the family moves, first to London, then to Amsterdam, where it seems to be safe.
Here Hannah attended a Montessori school, where she met Anne Frank. They were also next-door neighbours,
The Germans invade the Netherlands and the first Anti-Jewish restrictions are ordered. Things in Amsterdam deteriorate.
Hannah’s baby sister, Gabi, is born at this time too.
At one point, Anne and her family are nowhere to be found, and Hannah understands that they have fled to Switzerland.
At this time the mass deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to their deaths begins.
Hannah’s family is eligible to go to Palestine in exchange for German prisoners of war being held by the British, and they look forward to that.
But this does not happen and the day comes when Hannah and her family are put on a train bound for a labour camp.
H’s mother and grandfather die. Gabi gets ill.
At first, the children stay at an orphanage but later they are sent to Bergen-Belsen, which is rumoured to be an “ideal” camp.
As previously indicated, there is not much about Anne in the book. But later Hannah encounters her in Bergen-Belsen, and it is here that she learns that they never went to Switzerland but were hiding in her father’s office.
All in all, this is an engaging, well-written story about Hannah’s fate.
The Bergen-Belsen camp was not that great after all, but the story is less horrifying than Primo Levi’s account of his imprisonment in Auschwitz.
The book contains many photos of Hannah and her family and is well worth reading.… (plus d'informations)