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The Anne Frank Case
Simon Wiesenthal's Search for the Truth
By Rubin, Susan Goldman & Farnsworth, Bill
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Gr 6-8 In 1958, Holocaust deniers disrupted a theater performance of The Diary of Anne Frank. In response, the well-known Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal vowed to prove Anne's story true by finding the Gestapo officer who'd arrested her and her family. Much detective work led to the 1963 discovery of the man in question. This "hook" is the framing story for a picture-book biography chronicling Wiesenthal's exp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Holocaust survivor Wiesenthal dedicated his life to bringing Nazis to justice. Using extensive research, Rubin recounts Wiesenthal's story as w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Susan Goldman Rubin’s straightforward, engaging text draws readers into Simon Wiesenthal’s moving life story and offers a glimpse into what Wiesenthal called the “long, tedious process” of finding Nazi war criminals. In the search for the Gestapo officer who had arrested the Franks, Wiesenthal at first had almost nothing to go on. He located a man who had worked for Anne Frank’s father and who sugge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
