Claudia Carli

As Long As I Hope to Live (eBook, ePUB)

The moving, true story of a Jewish girl and her schoolfriends under Nazi occupation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529385946
• Artikelnr.: 61089669

Autorenporträt

Claudia Carli's friendship with Alie Lopes Dias's sister Gretha and discovery of Alie's friendship album set her on a decade-long mission to trace the girls' lives and preserve their memories. Her book is as faithful as it can be to every detail she learned from Gretha and the few women who have survived. She is currently a project leader for the educational project War In My Neighbourhood, which brings elderly and children together around stories from WW2. She lives in Amsterdam.