Storming the Tulips (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780983080008)

Not just another Holocaust story, Storming the Tulips is an intimate encounter with history, as told by twenty former students of the 1st Montessori School in Amsterdam. They were children-contemporaries of Anne Frank-and this book is a companion to The Diary of Anne Frank. While Anne's story describes her sequestered life in the Annex, Storming the Tulips reveals what children on the outside endured-in the streets, in hiding, and in the concentration camps. Their friends disappeared. Their parents sent them away. They were herded on trains and sent to death camps. They joined the Nazi youth. They hid Jews. They lost their families. They picked the pockets of the dead. They escaped. They dodged bullets. They lived in terror. They starved. They froze. They ate tulip bulbs. They witnessed a massacre. They collected shrapnel. And finally, they welcomed the Liberation. Some lost their families, most lost their homes, but they all lost their innocence as they fought to survive in a world gone mad-the only world that they knew.

Author: Hannie J. Voyles, Ronald Sanders
ISBN-10: 0983080003
ISBN-13: 9780983080008
Publisher: Stevyn Voyles
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2011
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2011 pg. 131