Johanna Reiss (Netherlands, 1932), Holocaust survivor

Johanna Reiss (F / Netherlands, 1932).

• She is the author of the memoir The Upstairs Room (1972).

• Holocaust Children's Biographies -- Holocaust Children's Memoirs

• <Netherlands> <Hidden Children> -- <United States>

Biography

• wikipedia.en -- [ wikipedia.it]

NOTES : Lived in hiding with her sister in a non-Jewish family. They spent two years mostly confined in an attic. After the war she moved to the United States.

Book : The Upstairs Room (1972)

"A classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning author Johanna Reiss’s own childhood during the Holocaust ... When the German army occupied Holland in 1940, Annie was only eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger. Most people thought the war wouldn’t last long, but Annie knew that if she wanted to stay alive, she would have to go into hiding. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered refuge to Annie and her older sister, Sini. For two years they hid in the cramped upstairs room of the Oostervelds’s remote farmhouse. There, Annie and Sini would struggle to hold on to hope—separated from their family and confined to one tiny room—as a frightful and seemingly endless war raged on outside their window.