Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

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I looked into the house, past a stairway landing, and saw heads of many children staring down at me.

Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. We children had no way of knowing that the war had begun, except that one day we heard soldiers marching in the streets.She did not tell anyone, not even her own foster parents, about the people in hiding whom she was assisting.

Before the hiding place was emptied by the authorities, Gies and the younger secretary Bep Voskuijl retrieved parts of Anne Frank's diaries and saved them in their desk drawer. As a child, she was severely malnourished due to lack of money and food shortages associated with World War I.These are people we admire,” says Ms Rater, who worked on the series with her husband, Tony Phelan, and director Susanna Fogel. When the director brought me into the strange class, explaining in Dutch to the children who I was, they all wanted to help me; so many hands reached out to guide me that I didn't know which one to grab first. They strapped a pair of wooden skates with curling blades to my shoes with leather thongs, and pushed me out onto the frozen surface.

They arrested the eight people in hiding, as well as their helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler. The couple faced some difficulties, but they were married on 16 July 1941 so that she could obtain Dutch citizenship and thus evade deportation. The American mother-of-one was drawn into their meticulous Dutch routine, listening in awe as they recounted incredible events with unruffled stoicism. If you found Anne's diary an interesting read then this is a must have to allow you to fill in the gaps.Every day, she saw trucks loaded with Jews heading to the railway station, en route to Nazi concentration camps.