As long as I hope to live : the true story of the Jewish girl Alida Lopes Dias (1929-1943), her friendship album and all the girls who wrote in it
Carli, Claudia2021
Books, Manuscripts
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. 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.
Main title:
As long as I hope to live : the true story of the Jewish girl Alida Lopes Dias (1929-1943), her friendship album and all the girls who wrote in it / Claudia Carli ; translated by Laura Watkinson.
Author:
Carli, Claudia, authorWatkinson, Laura, translator
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.
Collation:
viii, 414 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Dutch.
ISBN:
9781529385922 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.53180925352940.5318940.531940.531809
LC class:
DS135.N6A
Local class:
940.531940.5318
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
2837327
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