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My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
''My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank'' is a 2003 memoir-book written by :Jacqueline van Maarsen. The book was about the friendship of the author with the famous diarist, Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra .... Van Maarsen, who had previously written two books about Anne, had been giving lectures about her childhood friend since 1987. References External links Memoirs Books about Anne Frank {{lit-bio-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Van Maarsen
Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen (; born 30 January 1929) is a Dutch author and former bookbinder. She is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Jacque's Christian mother was able to remove the ''J'' (Jew) signs from the family's identity cards (Jacque's father was Jewish) during the Second World War, thereby helping the van Maarsens escape the Nazis. Early life Van Maarsen was born in Amsterdam to a Dutch-Jewish father, Samuel "Hijman" van Maarsen (1884–1952), and a French Christian mother, Eulalie Julienne Alice "Eline" van Maarsen (née Verlhac) (1891–1992). Van Maarsen has a sister, Christiane. Van Maarsen studied in a regular school in Amsterdam until 1940, when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. Most of her father's side of the family perished in Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz and Sobibor. Then she had to move to a Jewish lyceum. In the Jewish school, she befriended many girls, including Anne Frank, Nanette Blitz, Sanne Ledermann and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.(analysis of the successful ''Images of America'' series). Arcadia Publishing also runs the History Press, which publishes text-driven books on American history and folklore. History It was founded in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993 by United Kingdom-based Tempus Publishing, but became independent after being acquired by its CEO in 2004. The corporate office is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. It has a catalog of more than 12,000 titles, and italong with its subsidiary, The History Presspublishes 900 new titles every year. Its formula for regional publishing is to use local writers or historians to write about their community using 180 to 240 black-and-white photographs with captions and introductory paragraphs in a 128 page book. The ''Images of America'' series is the company's largest product line. Other series include ''Images of Rail, Images of Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:Jacqueline Van Maarsen
Jacqueline Yvonne Meta van Maarsen (; born 30 January 1929) is a Dutch author and former bookbinder. She is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Jacque's Christian mother was able to remove the ''J'' (Jew) signs from the family's identity cards (Jacque's father was Jewish) during the Second World War, thereby helping the van Maarsens escape the Nazis. Early life Van Maarsen was born in Amsterdam to a Dutch- Jewish father, Samuel "Hijman" van Maarsen (1884–1952), and a French Christian mother, Eulalie Julienne Alice "Eline" van Maarsen (née Verlhac) (1891–1992). Van Maarsen has a sister, Christiane. Van Maarsen studied in a regular school in Amsterdam until 1940, when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. Most of her father's side of the family perished in Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz and Sobibor. Then she had to move to a Jewish lyceum. In the Jewish school, she befriended many girls, including Anne Frank, Nanette Blitz, Sanne Lederma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Frank's last months". AnneFrank.org, 31 March 2015 was a Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution. She is a celebrated diarist who described everyday life from her family hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' (originally in Dutch, ; English: ''The Secret Annex''), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1934, when she was four and a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memoirs
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiography since the late 20th century, the genre is differentiated in form, presenting a narrowed focus. A biography or autobiography tells the story "of a life", while a memoir often tells the story of a particular event or time, such as touchstone moments and turning points from the author's life. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist or a memorialist. Early memoirs Memoirs have been written since the ancient times, as shown by Julius Caesar's ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'', also known as ''Commentaries on the Gallic Wars''. In the work, Caesar describes the battles that took place during the nine years that he spent fighting local armies in the Gallic Wars. His second memoir, ''Commentarii de Bello Civili'' (or ''Comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
