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Pantheon (1991), Hardcover, 204 pages
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The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed.
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LibraryThing member bakersfieldbarbara
Six Jewish women who survived the hell of the Nazi horrors of the Holocaust tell their stories, and those of the last 7 months of Anne Frank's life. The pain, humiliation and dehumanization is told of Auschwitz. With detailed eyewitness accounts, these women once more live the hell of the trip from
This should be a must read for every American citizen to show that tolerance can not be allowed as to who is better than another, whose belief system is the best, or whose race is allowed to continue, while killing off others. The HORROR OF THE HOLOCAUST is something everybody should remember when encountering another person.
I had nightmares the night I read this, and as my husband held me as I cried out, I was thankful for my own security, safety and acceptance without being killed for just being someone different. This book should be on everybody's bookshelf, as a reminder of evil and intolerance.
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the Dutch Westerbork transit camp to the last cattle car train ride. By the time they arrived at Auschwitz, they were emaciated beyond recognition, clad in rags and made to stand for 3 days prior to their arrival at the death camp. This devastating reconstruction of the ordeal Anne Frank endured in the last 7 months of her short life is a necessary complement to her own diar. I found the brave women's reconstruction of their harrowing ordeal to be something I will never forget. When I find myself complaining about some menial thing in my life, this will be a reminder of what I escaped just by being in another time, another place and another belief system. This should be a must read for every American citizen to show that tolerance can not be allowed as to who is better than another, whose belief system is the best, or whose race is allowed to continue, while killing off others. The HORROR OF THE HOLOCAUST is something everybody should remember when encountering another person.
I had nightmares the night I read this, and as my husband held me as I cried out, I was thankful for my own security, safety and acceptance without being killed for just being someone different. This book should be on everybody's bookshelf, as a reminder of evil and intolerance.
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LibraryThing member john257hopper
This book, first published in the Netherlands in 1988, contains the accounts of six Dutch women who encountered Anne Frank during her time in Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau or in Bergen-Belsen. Only one of them, Hannah Pick-Goslar, knew Anne beforehand and is mentioned in her diary. The rest had
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chance encounters with Anne and other members of her family, some of them very fleeting, so despite the common factor that brings these moving and tragic accounts together, the title is somewhat of a misnomer. A number of these women were members of the Dutch resistance and/or hid Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution before being betrayed or discovered and sent to the camps, several of them around the same time as Anne's family was betrayed in the summer of 1944. Some of the accounts also contain strong analysis of the Nazi attempt to dehumanise Jews and others and how the writer was able to fight back by maintaining their moral courage and self-belief, and that of their close companions, or by disengaging mentally from the horrors around them and living in their minds. The accounts thereby provide a strong testimony to the strength of the human spirit in adversity. In the week of reading this, I have visited Auschwitz-Birkenau and the later accounts have been given added poignancy as I have been able to visualise the surroundings described there. Show Less
LibraryThing member bnbookgirl
This is six women's stories about their time in Auschwitz and Westerbork. Each of the women knew the Frank family before and had one or more interactions with Anne, Margot and Mrs. Frank while in the concentration camps. It is so interesting to hear snippets of what happened after the diary ends.
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Each of the stories the women tell are of course heart wrenching, but they also bring Anne a bit more to life. It is so nice to know these women survived and could lead a somewhat normal life. It is also such a tribute to those who did not make it. Though we can never know what these women suffered, it is an interesting peek into Anne's last days, told through their stories. Show Less
ISBN
0679401458 / 9780679401452
Other editions
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer (Paperback)