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  • Published: 8 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529901344
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $29.99
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My Friend Anne Frank

The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds





In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend, Anne Frank.

THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR, WHO SHARES AN INTIMATE LOOK INTO HER LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ANNE FRANK.

'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne'

Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten...

When Hannah's family flee from the Nazis to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship with a girl just like her freshly arrived from Germany. Precocious and outspoken, the girl's name is Anne Frank and for seven blissful years the inseparable pair navigate school, boys and coming of age.

Then one day in 1942, as the Nazi occupation intensifies, they are separated without warning. Hannah calls on Anne and can't find a trace of her, breakfast dishes still in the sink, beds unmade. Anne and her family have seemingly vanished. They are told the Franks have fled to Switzerland.

As Hannah is tormented by the fate of her friend, hoping she is alive and well elsewhere, her own family's fate unfolds. After attempts to flee themselves, the SS finally come for them and they are taken to the transit camp Westerbork. Eventually Hannah, her father and younger sister Gabi are transported to Bergen-Belsen. Amid horrific conditions with death all around, it is during Hannah's darkest point at the concentration camp that she hears astonishing of news of Anne. Desperate to save her friend who is weak and struggling to survive, Hannah risks her life to help her.

In an incredible memoir of hope, strength and defiance, Hannah shares the intimate, loving portrait of her friendship with the young diarist who would go on to capture the hearts of millions around the world.

  • Published: 8 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529901344
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Hannah Pick-Goslar

Hannah Pick-Goslar, known as Hanneli to her friends and as 'Lies Goosens' in her dear friend Anne Frank's diary, was born in Berlin 1928, as the eldest child of Jewish parents, Hans Goslar and Ruth Judith Klee. In 1933, after the election of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, the Goslars moved to Amsterdam. After the Nazi occupation of Europe intensified, in 1943, Hannah and her family were arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp, before being transported to Bergen-Belsen. Hannah survived 14 months of horrific conditions and hardship before the camp was liberated in 1945. She emigrated to British Mandate Palestine in 1947 and trained as a nurse. Once retired, Hannah enjoyed the company of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She passed away in 2022 at the age of 93.

Praise for My Friend Anne Frank

'The real Anne Frank, by her best friend'

Daily Telegraph

'[A] beautiful and complex friendship'

New York Post

'Hannah's story finally completes what Anne could not. It is both heartbreaking and life-affirming, and we need its truth now more than ever.'

Dr. Edith Eger, author of The Choice

'An extraordinary story of love, loss, and the power of friendship in the darkest time. This book, like its author, is an essential companion to Anne Frank's life.'

Jack Fairweather, Costa Prizewinning author of The Volunteer

'A heart-wrenching memoir of friendship and survival. By telling her story, Hannah Goslar pays tribute to her best friend Anne Frank and the millions of others who did not survive the Holocaust. But she also shows us how to preserve our humanity in the face of evil.'

Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House

'One of the most moving, profound and important books I've ever read.'

Rangan Chatterjee

'A profoundly moving account...an immensely valuable contribution not just to our knowledge of Anne Frank, but to the memory of the Holocaust itself.'

Dave Rich, author of Everyday Hate

'Every bit as remarkable as the Anne Frank story. Hannah has left us a jewel.'

Jon Sopel

'Heartbreaking'

Irish Independent

'Pick-Goslar's story seems more important than ever'

Francine Prose, The Washington Post

'A devastating account of the Holocaust'

Time

'Unsparing with the truth, but ultimately uplifting'

The Times

'This miraculous wartime memoir is deeply affecting because it is the story of two normal girls'

The Sunday Times

'Vivid and extraordinary'

The Guardian

'If you think Anne Frank's diary is a brave, wise and heart-warming testament to the indomitable human spirit, you should really read the sequel'

The Spectator

A deeply moving memoir

The Observer
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