Behind the Bookcase

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Behind the Bookcase

Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place

Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women

Author: Barbara Lowell

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Language: English

Published by: Kar-Ben Publishing ®

Published on: 1 September 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 40 pages

ISBN: 9781728411927


Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio

combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies. One of the protectors of the Frank family, Miep recovered the diary after the family was discovered by Nazis, and then returned it to Otto Frank after World War II. Displaced from her own home as a child during World War I, Miep had great empathy for Anne, and she found ways—like talking about Hollywood gossip and fashion trends—to engage her. The story of their relationship—and the impending danger to the family in hiding—unfolds in this unique perspective of Anne Frank’s widely known story.

"A historically accurate but relatively gentle introduction to the Holocaust for elementary-age readers."—Miriam Aronin, Booklist

"Author and illus­tra­tor do not deny Miep Gies’s extra­or­di­nary hero­ism but frame it as a nat­ur­al response to the events of her life and the depth of her emo­tion­al involve­ment in her Jew­ish com­pa­tri­ots’ tragedy."—Emily Schneider, Jewish Book Council

"A solid, additional title that can serve as an introduction to Holocaust literature."—Kathleen Isaacs, School Library Journal

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