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A Life in Hiding

When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they hid Annie and her sister, Sini, in the cramped upstairs room of their farmhouse.

Most people thought the war wouldn't last long. But for Annie and Sini — separated from their family and confined to one tiny room — the war seemed to go on forever.

In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week-tulips in the spring, roses in the summer-stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great danger of being cap-tured by the invaders, she and her sister Sini had to leave their father, mother, and older sister Rachel to go into hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse.
Johanna de Leeuw Reiss has written a remarkably fresh and moving account of her own experiences as a young girl during World War II. Like many adults she was innocent of the German plans for Jews, and she might have gone to a labor camp as scores of families did. It won't be for long and the Germans have told us we'll be treated well, those families said. What can happen? They did not know, and they could not imagine.... But millions of Jews found out.
Mrs. Reiss's picture of the Oosterveld family with whom she lived, and of Annie and Sini, reflects a deep spirit of optimism, a faith in the ingenuity,backbone, and even humor with which ordinary human beings meet extraordinary challenges. In the steady, matter-of-fact, day-by-day courage they all showed lies a profound strength that transcends the horrors of the long and frightening war. Here is a memorable book, one that will be read and reread for years to come.

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

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In this fine autobiographical novel, Johanna Reiss depicts the trials of her Dutch-Jewish family during World War II. . . . The youngest of three daughters tells how she and her sister hid for more than two years in the upstairs room of the peasant Oosterveld family. . . . Offers believable characterizations of unremarkable people who survived, if not thrived, and displayed an adaptability and generosity probably beyond their own expectations.
Elie Wiesel
"An admirable account . . . as important in every respect as the one bequeathed to us by Anne Frank.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780064403702
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/28/1990
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 72,389
  • Age range: 10 - 14 Years
  • Lexile: 0380L (what's this?)
  • Series: Trophy Newbery Book Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.12 (w) x 7.62 (h) x 0.41 (d)

Meet the Author

Johanna Reiss was born and brought up in Holland. After she was graduated from college, she taught elementary school for several years before coming to the United States to live. Her first book for children, The Upstairs Room, was a Newbery Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and a Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book, and it won the Jewish Book Council Juvenile Book Award and the Buxtehuder Bulle, a prestigious German children's book award. Mrs. Reiss writes that soon after she had finished Tie Upstairs Room, she found "there was still something I wanted to say, something that was as meaningful to me as the story I had told in the first book, the story of a war. 'The fighting has stopped'; 'Peace treaty signed,' newspapers announce at the conclusion of every war. From a political point of view, the war is over, but in another sense it has not really ended. People are fragile. They are strong, too, but wars leave emotional scars that take a long time to heal, generations perhaps. I know this to be true of myself, and of others. And out of those feelings came The Journey Back, a story of the aftermath of the Second World War." Though Mrs. Reiss lives with her daughters in New York City, they make frequent visits to Holland to visit Mrs. Reiss's sisters, Rachel and Sini, and Johan and Dientje Oosterveld.

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Chapter One

I was not very old in 1938, just six, and a little thing. Little enough to fit between the wall and Father's chair, which in those days was always pulled up in front of the radio. He sat with his face close to the radio, bent forward, with his legs spread apart, his arms resting on his knees. And he listened.

"Father, look at this." I held out a drawing I had made.

"Ssht."

"Father, I asked you to...

He listened, but not to me.

Where was Austria, which Hitler had attached to Germany in the spring? It was not a nice thing to have done, I guessed. Father had looked angry.

Hitler. All the man on the radio ever talked about was Hitler. He must be an important man in Germany. Why didn't he like German Jews? Because he didn't. Why else would he be bothering them. The radio said he did.

"Father."

"Ssht."

Or why would he let Jews buy food only at certain hours? Or arrest them and put them in jail? Only the jail was called a camp. But Germany wasn't Holland. I smiled . A good thing!, If we lived in Germany, Hitler might do the same thing to us. He must have been the man who had just told the German people they could steal things from Jews. Anything they liked they could take. Or burn. The German people could even arrest Jews, just like that.

The radio said something had happened. A Jewish boy had killed a German man. That wasn't nice. But allowing people to run through the streets in Germany one night and do all those things to the Jews was not nice either. It had a special name that night: Kristallnacht.

"Father, what does KristalInacht mean?"

"Ssht, Annie. I'm listening."

That wasall Father said to me these days. And I didn't like it. He used to say much more to me, nice things. Even play with me. How could I ever find out anything if he never answered questions? I got to my feet. Mother would tell me. I walked into her bedroom to ask her what the word KristalInacht meant, but she had a headache again. How come bad kidneys give you headaches?

Well anyway, Germany wasn't Holland. I frowned. Winterswijk was near the German border though, less than twenty minutes away. That's how close it was. Some farmers lived so close to the border that their cows grazed in Germany, only across the road from their houses. I knew because Father was a cattle dealer, and he often took me with him when he went to buy COWS.

I was glad we lived right in Winterswijk, not so close to Germany that you could see it from your room. I saw something much nicer when I looked out of my window: the house of the Gans family, which was right across the street. The Ganses often waved to me at night when I leaned out the window -- the old man and woman and their big son. "Get back in bed," they'd call, "or we'll tell your mother."

That wouldn't be bad. As long as they didn't tell my sisters. I had two of them, Sini and Rachel. Big sisters, sixteen and twenty-one. And then there was Marie' our sleep-in maid, who was almost like a sister. We all lived in our house in the center of town, away from that border.

After the bad night in Germany, a meeting was held at our house. The Gans family came, all three of them, and Uncle Bram, who was in the cattle business with Father, and his wife. Uncle Phil was there without his wife because Aunt Billa and Mother didn't speak to each other. It had to do with my grandmother, who lived with Aunt Billa and Uncle Phil but who came to our house every day to complain about them. I knew. I had heard her. When I sat at the top of the stairs, I could hear a great deal, whether the voices came from the bedroom upstairs or from the living room downstairs, as they did now. They were excited voices: "We must help those German Jews who cross the border to come to Winterswijk...They left everything behind in Germany..." "They need our help. I talked to some today..."Big raw scar on the face of one...German soldier... with whip."

"But why?" That was Mother.

"Because he was a Jew, Sophie." Father sounded impatient.

"It can't happen here...safe here...this isn't Germany...this is Holland, you know..." "That Hitler has war on his mind, Sophie, and we're Jews, too...

There, footsteps. I ran back to my room and climbed in bed. I pulled the blankets over my head.

A few months later Uncle Bram and his wife left for America. We went to the station to say good-bye. They must have been planning to stay for a long time. They took a lot of suitcases with them. And it must be far away, for Uncle Bram. said that Hitler would never be able to reach them in America.

"Sophie, why don't we go too?" Father said.

But Mother said she had too many headaches to leave Holland and start all over again. Waving, we remained at the station until the train went. With angry steps Father walked over to his car, opened it, and got in. He slammed the door and drove away, leaving us to walk home.

By the fall of 1939, Rachel had graduated from teachers' college. She found a job at one of the nursery schools in Winterswijk. Sini started to work on a farm. At night when Father and Mother went across the street to sit outside with the Gans family, Mother tried to talk about my sisters. "That Rachel...so capable...and Sini, studying for her milking diploma..." But I could tell from my window that nobody was listening to her. They were talking about the Germans who had invaded Poland...

The Upstairs Room. Copyright © by Johanna Reiss. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 19, 2006

    BEST BOOK

    such an awesome book!! i love books that have to do with the holocaust! this book has a sequel!! yes! READ THIS BOOK! it actually makes you like history!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2012

    Liked it

    I read this years ago, but still, it sticks out in my mind. I just loved this book, it was amazing!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2012

    Great!

    This is a great book!I love reading about World War 2.This was a great example of the harship in those times.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 26, 2012

    Non-graphic enough for kids to read, but a tale to keep those of all ages interested!

    I read this book in my Language Arts class thinking it would be an easy A and that it'd be mediocre at worst. Boy, was I wrong! A lovely tale written from a child's point of view and just an amazing book in general. The epilogue really was the cherry on top, and I recommend it to all who enjoyed the movie "La Vita e Bella (Life Is Beautiful)".

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 29, 2012

    Great book a must read

    The Upstairs Room is a great book. It is based on a true story about the author. The Oservils were also real people. It is also very interesting. The Upstars Room is a very very good book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Great book. Incredible story.

    At first I didnt like how this book was written but as I kept reading it got better and better and I wanted to find out what was going to happen next. Im going to start the sequal now.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 5, 2011

    Ty Yay

    Go Oma

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 30, 2011

    you must check it out

    I think this book is in tersting because of how childeran couldn't go to school because they were jewish.this book a boy life at time when he was a child who was jewish and had to hide from the Germans.

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  • Posted March 12, 2011

    Very Highly Recommended - A Must Read!

    This book was fabulous! It definitely deserves the Newbery Honor it won and is one of the best Holocaust books out there. The character development is excellent and the plot very suspenseful. An autobiographical novel, it is written in first person and is all the more chilling because it really happened to the author. The book is about a Jewish family, the deLeeuws, from Holland, who try to go into hiding. While the Germans are throwing people out of their homes, Annie, who is six, and her older sister, Sini hide, while their older sister, Rachel, stays to take care of their mother, who is terribly sick Later in the book Annie and Sini hide in the upstairs room of a Dutch family's home. The Oostervelds, who own the home, are a simple Gentile farming family. As the story unfolds, a wonderful relationship between the deLeeuws and the Oostervelds develops. This book is a must read! I couldn't put it down. I bet you won't be able to either.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2009

    horrible

    I hated this book it was a waste of time. It was a waste of ink and paper i give it 1star

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 20, 2008

    'A Great Book'

    In this book, the Germans are at war with the Jews. A family is split apart and have to go away in hiding until the war ends. I think the the author does a really good job engaging the reader. I feel this way because as I read I get a realyl clear image in my head of what is going on. I can also imagine how the characters are feeling through this horrible time. In this book, I like how the author explains how each character feels during the war. I also like how descriptive and detailed she is while talking about this war. Something I have a question about is the backround of HItler. All I know is that he was in charge of the Germans and was a horrible person. I'd like to know how old he was and what his family was like. I think a teenager would engoy this booko. Someone younger would enjoy this book more than someone older because you learn a lot about the effects that the war had on many people. Someone older probably all ready has an idea of what happened between the Germans and Jews.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2008

    A reviewer

    I think that the book was kind of sad / unhappy, interesting , for example there are these two girls in this room and they do not get to go anywhere or do anything. What Ilearned was that people like me should never do anythingbad or or go anywhere we are not suposed to go. I sourt of think that this book should be recommended to other people that would like books like this one, for example like this book could be a text to text and the titanic is a book like this one.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 28, 2008

    Hi

    I loved this book i loved this book!!!!!! i am going to buy the next one 'the jorney back' i love this book so much i stayed up till like 1200 reading because i wanted to finsh!! Ruby

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 25, 2008

    I did a project for this book

    I enjoyed reading this book for one of my projects. This book is much related to the diary of Anne Frank. It is about Germans invading Holland and taking all the Jews to concentration camps, but Annie's family decides to go into hiding for years. Read the book to learn the rest. I strongly recommend it for any reader.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 11, 2007

    The book review

    The upstairs room is a very impacting and exciting book. If you put yourself in Anne¿s position .When Anne and her family have to go into hiding after the Nazi army takes over their home. Anne and her sister both go into hiding by themselves in the home of the family after the family gets nervous of getting caught then they send the girls to another home the family who are very loving and they really help out Anne and her sister .what was the most scariest thing that keeps you at the edge of your seat like a scary movie. Would be when the girls are hiding in the room in the barn and then the Nazi make that their main headquarters. They had to be even more careful then ever before. They aren¿t caught by the people but do try and hide for a long time. After hiding and pretty much the struggle to stay alive .later on they the war finally ends and they start a new life.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 19, 2006

    Great book for young readers.

    Imagine being cramped in a room day and night. This is what Annie de Leeuw had to go through during World War II. The Upstairs Room is a fantastic book for young readers. It is told from the viewpoint of Annie. Because they are German Jews, Annie and her sister are sent to live with the Oostervelds. They have to hide in an upstairs room and Annie's sister is upset about having to share a room with Annie. Their older sister is sent to live with another family. The girls develop a very close relationship with the Oostervelds. After the German Army sets up headquarters in the Oosterveld's home, the girls have to be extremely quiet. A German officer almost catches Annie in the house. The girls begged Mr. Oosterveld to let their older sister come for a visit. Since he cares for the girls so much and he knows how much the visit will mean to them, he lets her come. The girls are also very fond of the Oostervelds and promise that they will visit after the war is over. This story appeals to young readers because the story is narrated through a young person. It lets the reader experience the struggles she had to go through during World War II. It tells how a young girl had to grow up during the Holocaust. It is a true story so I think it would be easy for a young person to relate. The reader gets to experience the realness of the story. As you are reading the book you will feel as if you are there.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 15, 2006

    Really Good!!!

    This was a great book. It kept me reading for hours on end.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2006

    An Awesome Book!!!!!!!!

    The Upstairs room is one of the best books I've ever read! It is amazing how Annie and Sini can even bear the death of their mother, the war, not being with their father and sister, and not having a normal life! This book is an amazing book that you have to read!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 7, 2005

    It was a good book!

    I liked this book because I thought Annie was really brave to have survived World War II in a tiny room of a farmer's house. I really thought that was amazing! Although she had to do that, she had some really cool adventures!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2005

    Great Book

    I thought the plot was great. I am really into stuff on that war. I like other books that has to do with that and I also enjoyed the movie, 'The Pianist.' YOU'VE GOT TO READ THIS BOOK!

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