As Long As I Hope to Live : The moving, true story of a Jewish girl and her schoolfriends under Nazi occupation
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
152938592X
ISBN-13
9781529385922
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 24th, 2021
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
658 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 24.10 x 4.10 cms
Product Classification:
Oral historyThe Holocaust
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The true and moving holocaust story of Jewish schoolgirl Alie Lopes Dias and the fate of her schoolfriends in Amsterdam. Only six of the 19 survived the war.
''An extraordinary book . . . vivid and heart-breaking'' - The Jewish Chronicle
Claudia Carli''s discovery of 12-year-old Alie''s precious friendship album offers a moving glimpse into the lives of a class of schoolgirls in WW2 Amsterdam - most of whom did not survive the War.
In As Long as I Hope to Live, Carli brings Alie and her friends touchingly and vividly to life. Interspersed among their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings - the very ordinary thoughts and feelings of 12-year-olds - is the harrowing truth of life under Nazi occupation: the constant fear of a knock on the door, the abrupt realisation that a friend is missing from class, the sombre news that a family member has been taken away.
Those fears were not unfounded. Alie and her mother died in Sobibor in 1943. But 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: a promise whose legacy is honoured in this book, ensuring that the lives of these girls will not be forgotten.
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