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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
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Author:
Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
Publisher:
Little, Brown Spark
Date:
June 6, 2023
The memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank.
What The Reviewers Say
Beyond this account of their tragically curtailed friendship and their brief, painful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank, written with Dina Kraft, is as much Hannah’s story as it is Anne Frank’s.
The title of Pick-Goslar’s memoir, My Friend Anne Frank, is misleading and – however unintentionally – does it a disservice. This is not really the story of Frank, who achieved posthumous fame through the diary she kept while in hiding, even though, as a neighbour and close friend of the author, she is a significant presence in the first third of the book. It is, in fact, the vivid and extraordinary story of Pick-Goslar.
Vivid.
Dina Kraft, who worked with her on the book, is to be thanked, along with Hannah’s family, for ensuring that this memoir exists at all. Pick-Goslar worked incredibly hard at Holocaust education, but it would have been a loss if there were no book to capture the tale. And Kraft should also be thanked for making a good job of it. She has clearly relied on documentary evidence as well as Pick-Goslar’s recall, but she does so in a way that strengthens the book without losing Pick-Goslar’s voice. The facts and the personal memories are integrated well. The book is readable and moving..
