The Journey Back (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Johanna Reiss
- First Published: 1976
- Time of Work: 1945–1946
- Setting: Usselo and Winterswijk, Holland
- Principal Characters: Annie de Leeuw, Sini de Leeuw, Rachel de Leeuw, Ies de Leeuw, Magda Vos, Johan Oosterveld, Dientje Oosterveld, Opoe Oosterveld
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Children’s literature
- Subjects: Freedom, Family or family life, Autobiography, 1940’s, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Netherlands or Dutch people, Holocaust, Jewish, Jews and Gentiles, Family reunions
- Locales: Holland
Form and Content
In the foreword to The Journey Back, Johanna Reiss (who had grown up with the name Annie de Leeuw) explains that her second book is the sequel to the earlier The Upstairs Room (1972), which describes how she and her sister Sini were hidden for three years by a simple farm family while Adolf Hitler’s armies rounded up European Jews for deportation and death. So that the sequel is not dependent on the first book, Reiss begins the story of her journey back by describing what the three years of hiding were like for her, her sister, and the...
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