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| Original Title: | The Upstairs Room |
| ISBN: | 006440370X (ISBN13: 9780064403702) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Upstairs Room #1 |
| Setting: | Netherlands |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (1973), National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature (1971), Buxtehuder Bulle (1975), Jane Addams Children's Book Award Nominee (1973), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1974) |
Johanna Reiss
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.87 | 10448 Users | 419 Reviews
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In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week - tulips in the spring, roses in the summer - stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great danger of being captured by the invaders, she and her sister Sini had to leave their father, mother, and older sister Rachel to go into hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse.Johanna de Leeuw Reiss has written a remarkably fresh and moving account of her own experiences as a young girl during World War II. Like many adults, she was innocent of the German plans for Jews, and she might have gone to a labor camp as scores of families did. "It won't be for long and the Germans have told us we'll be treated well," those families said. "What can happen?" They did not know, and they could not imagine... but millions of Jews found out.
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| Title | : | The Upstairs Room (The Upstairs Room #1) |
| Author | : | Johanna Reiss |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | October 30th 1990 by HarperCollins (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. World War II. Holocaust. Childrens. War. Fiction |
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I read this book originally as a 4th grader. In undergrad, as a sophomore in a class called "Jews and Anti-Semitism," I did an Honors Option where my professor (noted Holocaust scholar Kenneth Waltzer) assigned us to investigate true-life Holocaust memoirs. I picked this book, since I read it to pieces as a child, and I liked the way it had a quasi-happy ending (something you don't often get from Holocaust stories). I also managed to find the author on the Internet and wrote her a letter, toI didnt realize until I started that this is a memoir of the authors own experience in hiding during WWII. It reminded me of a middle grades version of The Diary of Anne Frank, a comparison made by Elie Wiesel as well. This a gentler version and a great book for older elementary to middle school kids learning about WWII and the Holocaust. There is quite a bit of language that might bother some parents (damn and GD, repeated throughout from one character). Highly recommend.
I read this to the kids for History as it's a story of a young Jewish girl who had to go into hiding in Holland during WWII. It's the author's true story and made very real through her writing. I loved the "Postscript" as the author shared her experience as an adult, taking her daughters back to Holland to see the house where she hid, meet the family that hid her, and see her old hiding place. It was emotional for me envisioning that.
I had never heard of this little book, but happened upon it at the library while my kids were at storytime. It is a true story of two Jewish girls who lived with a Dutch family, secretly, for two years at the end of World War II. The story is told from the younger girl's perspective and is related simply without excessive emotion or excessive explanations. Without embellishment you see the way events unfolded for the Jews in Holland as they faced uncertainty and then great fear when the Germans
I remember this book so fondly. I picked it up one day and it has been one of my favorite tales. The story is about two Jewish sisters hiding out in a trap room behind a closet in the upstairs room (hence the title) of a helping family during World War II. They were trapped in the room for months hiding however one day the sisters risked to be outside and felt the warm glistening of the sun. I have an attachment to the sun, it's warmth and sense of freedom it imbues. I could not imagine the
This is a 1973 Newbery Honor book, an American Library Association Notable Children's book, a Jane Addams Peace Association Honor book and a winner of the prestigious Buxtehuder Bulle German children's book award.Taken from real-life experiences of the author, she tells the story of four years of confinement in a cramped attic room during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Eager to destroy the Jewish population, the Nazi's beat, brutalized and killed anyone willing to hide Jewish people.Bravely, a
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