jewish girls

Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.

Thirteen-year-old Ilse learns to rely on herself for survival after her mother Lore, terrified the Nazis will discover the girl is half-Jewish, sends her to live with a relative in Morocco in 1939, while in Germany, one of the privileged children Lore cares for in her job as a nursemaid, confesses his growing discomfort with his role in the Hitler Youth.

Presents a biography of Anne Frank, and includes over one hundred photographs and artifacts of her life, her family, friends, their two years in hiding, as well as their arrest, transport to the concentration camps, and separation. Includes time line and index.