Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland

by Diane L. Wolf

Book Overview

The image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis was shaped by Anne Frank, whose house--the most visited site in the Netherlands-- has become a shrine to the Holocaust. Yet while Anne Frank's story continues to be discussed and analyzed, her experience as a hidden child in wartime Holland is anomalous--as this book brilliantly demonstrates. Drawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520248104
• ISBN13: 9780520248106
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"