We all wore stars
Subtitle: memories of Anne Frank from her classmates
By: by Theo Coster ; translated from the Dutch by Marjolijn de Jager
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780230114449
Subjects: Friends and associates; Biography; HISTORY / Jewish; HISTORY / Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); German Jews; Ethnic relations
Work titles: Klasgenoten van Anne Frank
Description: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather their personal stories and memories of Anne. The accounts collected here do not just help us to rediscover Anne Frank. They also stand on their own as remarkable stories of ingenuity and survival during the Holocaust--from Albert Gomes de Mesquita, who hid in ten different towns across Europe--to Hannah Goslar, who experienced the horrors of Bergen-Belsen but also made a miraculous reconnection with Anne days before her death"--