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Hetty by Hetty Verolme
This is the abridged version of the original 'The Children's House of Belsen', designed specifically for secondary school children. It is the story of the struggle and survival of a group of children in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.
"A powerful and chilling account . . . candid and vivid." "--Australian"
ISBN: 9781921361333
ISBN-10: 1921361336 Classification: History & the past: general interest (Children's/YA) , People & places (Children's/YA) Format: Paperback (198mm x 127mm x 20mm) Pages: 288 Imprint: Fremantle Press Publisher: Fremantle Press Publish Date: 29-Jun-2009 Country of Publication: Australia |
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Book Review: Hetty by Hetty Verolme - Reviewed by Boomert (10 Dec 2009) In the tradition of The Secret Diary of Anne Frank, comes Hetty: A True Story, the abridged version of Hetty Verholme’s award-winning memoir The Children’s House of Belsen. Hetty’s world was upturned in 1943 when the German army invaded Netherlands. Forced initially into the Jewish quarter in Amsterdam and later sent to the Belsen concentration camp, Hetty and her family witnessed the full horrors and the senseless cruelty of the Nazi’s ‘final solution’. In Belsen, Hetty and her younger brothers were separated from their parents and, along with 40 other children, were placed in the Children’s House in the Belsen camp. Displaced, separated from family members and with only a tenuous hold on life, the children survived through the devotion of Sister Luba (a Polish prisoner placed in charge of looking after the children) and their love and care for one another. Hetty: A True Story, is an unflinching and chilling account, suitable for secondary... |
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