Reiss's sisters, Rachel and Sini, and Johan and Dientje Oosterveld. Reiss lives with her daughters in New York City, they make frequent visits to Holland to visit Mrs. And out of those feelings came The Journey Back, a story of the aftermath of the Second World War."Though Mrs. I know this to be true of myself, and of others. Annie and her sister Sini, who have been hiding from the Germans for almost three years, are free again. They are strong, too, but wars leave emotional scars that take a long time to heal, generations perhaps. The Journey Back The Second World War is over. From a political point of view, the war is over, but in another sense it has not really ended. `The fighting has stopped' `Peace treaty signed,' newspapers announce at the conclusion of every war. Reiss writes that soon after she had finished Tie Upstairs Room, she found "there was still something I wanted to say, something that was as meaningful to me as the story I had told in the first book, the story of a war. Her first book for children, The Upstairs Room, was a Newbery Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and a Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book, and it won the Jewish Book Council Juvenile Book Award and the Buxtehuder Bulle, a prestigious German children's book award.Mrs. But can she save her family from being torn apart when she returns to her war-ravaged town In this fascinating autobiographical account, Johanna Reiss shows us. After she was graduated from college, she taught elementary school for several years before coming to the United States to live. Johanna Reiss was born and brought up in Holland. This classic autobiographical novel is a strong choice for classroom sharing and independent reading. There, Annie and Sini would struggle to hold on to hope-separated from their family and confined to one tiny room-as a frightful and seemingly endless war raged on outside their window. For two years they hid in the cramped upstairs room of the Oostervelds’s remote farmhouse. Most people thought the war wouldn’t last long, but Annie knew that if she wanted to stay alive, she would have to go into hiding.įortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered refuge to Annie and her older sister, Sini. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger. ![]() ![]() she had a smooth accented voice that read the lines like poetry. the best part of this book was that it was an audio book read by the author. ![]() in this book the author tell of the adjustment to life she goes through after the war. When the German army occupied Holland in 1940, Annie was only eight years old. this is a sequel to an autobiographical story of a young girl in hiding during world war two. In this fascinating autobiographical account, Johanna Reiss shows us that.
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