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Reviewed on October 1, 2007
Adult/High School Born in 1929, the author, like her middle-school friend Anne Frank, enjoyed a well-ordered and comfortable childhood, and was the younger child of a pair of sisters. Unlike Anne, who had immigrated with her Jewish parents to the Netherlands, van Maarsen was born there to a Dutch Jewish father and a French Catholic mother. At her mother's insi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



