Publisher: Penguin UK
My Friend Anne Frank is a beautiful and very moving memoir of Hannah Pick-Goslar.
In this memoir, Hannah describes her life, which started in Germany, where she lived a happy life with her parents, until Hitler came to power, and Hannah and her parents flee to Amsterdam, where they became neighbours of the Frank family, who also had fled from Germany. The mothers of Hannah and Anne only speak German, so they become friends and Hannah and Anne too as they find support in each other as German- Jewish refugees, and the girls also go to the same school in Amsterdam. But then, the Germans invade Holland too, something they truly didn't expect. One day, Hannah is going to he friend Anne's house to play, only to find that the Frank family left the house on the Merwedeplein, apparently in a hurry they left for Switzerland. Not knowing her friend has gone into hiding. The life of the Goslars is still in danger, and one sad day, after fruitless attemps to flee to places like Honduras, her family is arrested and transported to camp Westerbork, and later on Hannah and her little sister Gabi are transported to camp Bergen Belsen, where unexpectedly, she find her friend Anne again under horrific conditions. Hannah has to fight like a lioness to keep her sister and herself alive in the camp, but they survive it, and Hannah describes what happened after the camp was liberated, how her life went from that point on, and how she eventually moved to Israel where she became a nurse.
I always find it a bit difficult to reviews book like this. Because how can you review a book that tells events just like they happened in real life? But i truly want to honor the late Hannah Pick-Goslar with this book review. It is so sad what she had to endure during the war, her story is moving and heartbreaking, but how she tells it in this book is just amazing and you can only have deep respect for her.
This book truly left me speechless, and I recommend reading it for everyone.
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