{"product_id":"as-long-as-i-hope-to-live-the-moving-true-story-of-a-jewish-girl-under-nazi-occupation-9781529385960","title":"As Long as I Hope to Live: The Moving, True Story of a Jewish Girl Under Nazi Occupation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An extraordinary book . . . vivid and heart-breaking'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the War. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings, in this extraordinary book. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live. This book will sit alongside Anne Frank's diary and \u003ci\u003eThe Cutout Girl\u003c\/i\u003e as a unique window into occupied Amsterdam and the girls who will now never be forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529385960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.72h x 5.04w x 1.18d","brand":"Claudia Carli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42547803160757,"sku":"9781529385960","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3e140bc0-0f72-49f0-9f9b-ce776182b6a9.jpg?v=1670337431","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/as-long-as-i-hope-to-live-the-moving-true-story-of-a-jewish-girl-under-nazi-occupation-9781529385960","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}