My Friend Anne Frank

Both heartbreaking and life-affirming (Edith Eger author of The Choice) the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank.In 1933 Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games sleepovers and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942 Hannah and Anne''s lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne''s precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne''s fate wondering if she had by some miracle managed to escape danger.In this long‑awaited memoir Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and eventually the Frank family to Hannah and her family''s imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime as well as an intimate never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world''s history.