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The Promise Barbara Powers

The Promise By Barbara Powers

The Promise by Barbara Powers


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A true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother growing up during the Second World War, caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis. It is intended for children.

The Promise Summary

The Promise: The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust by Barbara Powers

A Holocaust survivor's own story, told specially for young readers.

This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis during the Second World War. Eva Schloss describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind and loving parents and her older brother Heinz, whom she adored. But when the Nazis marched into Austria everything changed.

Eva's family fled to Belgium, then to Amsterdam where, with the help of the Dutch Resistance, they spent the next two years in hiding - Eva and her mother in one house, and her father and brother in another. But in the end they were all betrayed and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Despite the horrors of the camp, Eva's positive attitude and stubborn personality (which had often got her into trouble) saw her through one of the most tragic events in history but sadly her father and brother perished just weeks before the liberation. Eva and her mother travelled back to the house in Amsterdam where Heinz and his father had hidden and discovered over thirty beautiful paintings by her brother. Heinz hadn't wasted any of his talents during his captivity. For Eva, here was a tangible, everlasting memory of her beloved older brother, and a reminder of her father's promise that all the good things you accomplish will make a difference.

Heinz's paintings have been on display in exhibitions in the USA and are now a part of a permanent exhibition in Amsterdam's war museum.

Eva Schloss is the posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank, after mother, Fritzi, was remarried to Otto Frank, the only surviving member of his immediate family.

About Barbara Powers

Eva Schloss lives in North London. She regularly visits schools, universities and other institutions to talk about her experiences during the Holocaust. A play, 'And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank' by James Still deals with the lives of Eva and her posthumous step-sister, Anne Frank and other teenagers in the Holocaust. It has been performed all over the USA and in many other countries including a performance by children and young people in London in 2005 to mark the liberation of Auschwitz.

Eva is a trustee of the Anne Frank Trust in London.

Additional information

GOR001403970
9780141320816
0141320818
The Promise: The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust by Barbara Powers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Random House Children's UK
2006-04-06
160
N/A
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