Isbn: 9780803713628 - behind the secret window: a memoir of a hidden childhood (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated with Nelly's original watercolors, this powerful memoir tells the true story of how a little girl's imagination helped her survive World War I. The Nazis come to Poland when Nelly is six. By the time she turns eight, the events of World War I have taken almost everyone she loves. Scared, lonely, and running from the Nazis, Nelly hides in the bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. For over a year, she lives in fear of discovery, writing in her diary and painting pictures of a fantasy world filled with open skies and happy families. For 13 months during World War I, the author and her mother were hidden from the Nazis. Like Anne Frank, Nelly kept a diary and through that outlet transformed her grim reality into an enchanting fantasy world. Without emphasizing horror and loss, Toll conveys the effects of human evil and human folly, summoning up the forces of tragedy and courage. --Publishers Weekly In Toll's remembrance, art equals hope: her happy family pictures, painted in the secret room where she and her mother hid from the Nazis and the Poles, show extraordinary preteen talent as well as the will to survive. --Kirkus Reviews.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Illustrated with Nelly's original watercolors, this powerful memoir tells the true story of how a little girl's imagination helped her survive World War I. The Nazis come to Poland when Nelly is six. By the time she turns eight, the events of World War I have taken almost everyone she loves. Scared, lonely, and running from the Nazis, Nelly hides in the bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. For over a year, she lives in fear of discovery, writing in her diary and painting pictures of a fantasy world filled with open skies and happy families. For 13 months during World War I, the author and her mother were hidden from the Nazis. Like Anne Frank, Nelly kept a diary and through that outlet transformed her grim reality into an enchanting fantasy world. Without emphasizing horror and loss, Toll conveys the effects of human evil and human folly, summoning up the forces of tragedy and courage. --Publishers Weekly In Toll's remembrance, art equals hope: her happy family pictures, painted in the secret room where she and her mother hid from the Nazis and the Poles, show extraordinary preteen talent as well as the will to survive. --Kirkus Reviews.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy with firm hinges, sharp corners. Spine lettering to DJ faded o/w clean, fresh. BP/Holocaust.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Dial, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Has sticker on front cover.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First. Illustrated with 29 of the author's wartime paintings. 161 pages. Thin 8vo, red cloth-backed boards, pictorial d.w. New York: Dial Books, (1993). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

Zustand: very good, fair. First Edition. Third Printing. 24 cm, 161, color illus., DJ has tear and edge wear, black mark on bottom edge. The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland, during World War II.

Zustand: Good. Color illustrations.; Permanent marker line on bottom cut.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xiii, [1], 161, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations (many in color). After hiding with her mother in the apartment of Polish Catholics during World War II, Dr. Toll went on to spend the rest of her life writing, teaching, and speaking about the Holocaust. Toll spent more than a year when she was a girl with her mother in the tiny space in Poland after they failed to escape the Nazi invasion. Her father, brother, and other relatives had disappeared â" presumably murdered â" and she spent her hours in hiding in 1943-44 by writing stories, and passages in her diary, and painting more than 65 watercolor pictures. Her paintings imagined what it would have been like to attend school, have playmates, and visit the countryside. As a child in Poland during the Second World War, the author began to keep notes from the day the Germans entered Lwo'w, her birthplace, in 1941. Two years later, when her mother and the author were hidden from the Nazis by a Christian couple who risked their lives to save theirs, she invented her own code that she called her "Esperanto," her universal language, and converted such dangerous words as "ghetto" and ''Jews" into it. She reasoned that, if the Gestapo ever found her writing, they would not realize that she was Jewish and thus would not destroy it. Nelly produced twenty nine paintings which tell the story of a lovable, imaginative child beset with terrifying uncertainties, and of the courageous mother who nurtured her daughter's unswerving belief in brighter days ahead. Later, her diary was adapted into a play that was produced at several venues, and her art, to which she added for the rest of her life, was displayed around the world, including at the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, and the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Behind the Secret Window won a 1994 International Reading Association's Book Award, and a New York Times book review called it an "important and deeply moving document." Derived from a Kirkus review: In Toll's remembrance, art equals hope: her happy family pictures, painted in the secret room where she and her mother hid from the Nazis and the Poles, show extraordinary preteen talent (some of the 29 powerfully evocative paintings reproduced here now hang in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel) as well as the will to survive. Nelly's plightâ"going from bonbons served on silver platters to hiding behind false wallsâ"was not atypical. In some ways reminiscent of Maus, this emotionally complex and informative memoir reports the willingness of some neighbors to turn in Jews for a bag of potatoes and a bottle of vodka. Adults are keenly observed: a tutor nearly becomes a sex offender; the paranoid man who hides Nelly is both horrifying and funny. The poignancy is heightened by evocative language (``minutes walked by with small steps'') and raw emotional hunger (``waiting, waiting for Papa''), and by the postwar rush to reconstitute families by swift remarriagesâ"not seen in many Holocaust books, but an important aspect of healing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Illustrated with color drawings. Fine in fine dustwrapper with price markered out on front flap. Inscribed by the author on the front fly.