As Long As I Hope to Live - The moving, true story of a Jewish girl and her schoolfriends under Nazi occupation (Hardcover)

'An extraordinary book . . . vivid and heart-breaking' The Jewish Chronicle Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the War. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings, in this extraordinary book. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. Alie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live. This book will sit alongside Anne Frank's diary and The Cutout Girl as a unique window into occupied Amsterdam and the girls who will now never be forgotten.

General

Imprint:	Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Claudia Carli
Dimensions:	238 x 162 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-1-5293-8592-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Promotions
LSN:	1-5293-8592-X
Barcode:	9781529385922

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