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Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her?
In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you’re being written about in Anne’s diary, day after day? What’s it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.
As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them?
Anne’s diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter’s story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz – and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex’s occupants.
- Sales Rank: #624938 in Books
- Published on: 2012-01-10
- Released on: 2012-01-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .86" w x 5.50" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up–On July 13, 1942, 15-year-old Peter van Pels and his parents entered the attic that became their home for two years. Peter is angry that he is hiding and not fighting Nazis. He is also not happy to be sharing cramped living quarters with the Franks, especially know-it-all Anne. In this novel, Dogar "reimagines" what happened between the families who lived in the secret annex immortalized in Anne Frank's diary. In doing so, she creates a captivating historical novel and fully fleshes out the character of Peter, a boy whom teens will easily relate to. He agonizes over whether he will ever make love to a girl, fights with his parents, sulks, and questions God and religion before finally maturing into a man. While this novel focuses on his adolescent struggles in the face of unthinkable adversity, the most compelling dilemma he faces is figuring out who he is. When Anne accuses him of deserting his people, Peter laments, "I want so many things, but what I need is to know who I am. Because if I don't know that, I can only ever be what they say I am. A Jew." Even in the concentration camp, he fights against being treated as an animal, is angered at being stripped of his name, and regrets that he may not be able to tell his story. But he does, and readers are enlightened and deeply moved as a result. Annexed is a superb addition to the Holocaust literature, and should not be missed.Wendy Scalfaro, G. Ray Bodley High School, Fulton, NY
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From Booklist
Joining the growing list of titles based on Anne Frank’s diary, this novel is written from the viewpoint of Peter van Pels, who is nearly 16 in 1942 when he and his parents join the Franks in hiding in their Amsterdam attic. Meticulous about distinguishing fact from fiction, the author points out that Anne’s view in The Diary may have contradicted Peter’s story. Here, she irritates him at first, and she invades his privacy in the crowded space. Then he and Anne get closer, flirt, and kiss. Peter asks her not to put their relationship in her diary, which raises a crucial question: What did Anne leave out? Interspersed with Peter’s first-person, diary-like accounts of life in hiding are searing reports of his last days in the death camps, where he remembers the attic as he witnesses the horrors at Auschwitz and Mauthausen. With its historical and intimate details, as well as the questions about The Diary’s connections and omissions, this moving novel is sure to find a wide YA audience. Grades 8-12. --Hazel Rochman
Review
"While Annexed does not depend upon a prior reading of The Diary of a Young Girl for interest or understanding, readers of that book will appreciate the opportunity to see Anne Frank's story given a benefit it could not have: hindsight."—The Horn Book, starred review
"Readers are enlightened and deeply moved....Annexed is a superb addition to the Holocaust literature, and should not be missed."—School Library Journal, starred review
"Showing equal skill in bringing history to life and in capturing the spirit of a young man searching for his identity amid chaos, Dogar has written a novel as provocative as it is devastating."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The lines between written record, educated guess, and fictional construct are fascinatingly blurred here. . .made all the more so when readers consider the role perspective, translation, and editing play in the written record. The book’s skillful synthesis of all these facets should stimulate discussion about the nature of history, fiction, and truth."—The Bulletin, starred review
"[Annexed] is compassionate and thoughtful, told in a very intimate way. Dogar gets the claustrophobia of the annexe across brilliantly, as it escapes in pointless bickering and petty resentments, but the picture of vital, interesting people with hopes, dreams, loves and ambitions rises equally vividly from the pages. Peter himself is wonderfully drawn: painfully shy, introspective and independent of thought."—The Book Bag (UK)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Gave Peter a voice
By Alison's
Annexed made my heart ache for Anne Frank all over again.
What girl doesn't remember reading Anne Frank's diary for the first time?
This is Sharon Dogar's fictional story of what happened in the Annex and afterwards, as imagined from Peter Van Pels's perspective.
Much controversy surrounded this book before it was even published. I can only offer my opinion of the book, and I will try to weigh in on whether or not I agree with the criticisms made to Ms. Dogar and her fictional work.
She writes in the preface:
"In this novel, based on history, I try to imagine what it might have been like to have actually lived with Anne Frank. To become the target of her love, and to be so cruelly torn apart from her, just as liberation was coming to Holland."
The novel is broken into two parts - the first of which was the time Peter and his family spent in hiding in the Annex with the Franks, the second was what happened after they were found.
I believe the first part of the novel is that which is attracting so much criticism. While I am not a scholar when it comes to Anne Frank, I can say that there were some scenes in this first part that rubbed me the wrong way. Was this because I did not like someone messing with the Anne Frank we know and love, or was it just because I didn't particularly care for a certain scene? I am not sure.
On the other hand, it was nice to see more of Peter and the Van Pels, especially his mother, whom I remember disliking from Anne's diary. I think the hardest thing for me, as it probably was for many readers, was that Annexed made me question the whole truth of Anne's diary. Even though we all know there is more than one side to every story, many of us have embraced Anne's story since we were children. To have her story questioned in any way is blasphemy to many. But, I think Sharon Dogar wrote this first part with no ill intentions. In fact, she admits to changing some of the minor facts around, while somehow making Anne Frank more real and more accessible to me than ever before.
I usually enjoy a fictional story about true historical characters - and Annexed was no different. I enjoyed seeing what might have happened in the Annex, or how things may have happened slightly differently. Even though some people may have found the differences between Annexed and the diary disrespectful to Anne Frank's memory, I did not. I wish there were more we knew about her. Even Otto Frank admitted that the Anne Frank in the diary was not the Anne he knew. I wish Peter had kept a diary, or wrote letters or that there is more of an account of him. For now, I will just enjoy Ms. Dogar's conceptualization of Peter's point of view.
On to the second part of the book. After they were discovered...
This is where you may as well rip my heart out of my chest and stomp on it. The Franks and the Van Pels were on the last train into Auschwitz from Holland. This is a fact. The last train. If Anne Frank had not been on that train, she would have only been in her eighties today, and more of her writing would have been shared with the world. The last train. I can't quite get that out of my head.
The rest of the story follows the Van Pels and the Franks out of Holland, on the trains, into the lines (where Peter was so afraid and confused, he regrets how easily it was to let go of his mother's hand.), and on to where he would live, work, and slowly die. This is where Sharon Dogar painstakingly researched the path the Franks and Van Pels could have taken, what may have happened to them, where they may have been sent, and how they may have lived and died. All except for Otto Frank, Anne's father. The man who tried to hide and save them all, he was the only one who survived.
Anyone who has read Elie Wiesel's Night, Spiegelman's Maus, or Zusak's The Book Thief can appreciate how carefully the second part of Annexed was crafted. The fictional Peter described his days, but mostly how he tried not to remember his life before, the happiness he felt, and the girl he loved. Anne loved Peter, that much we know is true, and I, for one, was glad that Sharon Dogar gave Peter a voice with which he could love Anne in return.
Do I agree with the controversy? Not even a little bit. I believe the the author was as respectful as one could be to Anne Frank, while allowing herself some creative freedom. Ultimately, this is a work of fiction most lovingly written about real people beloved throughout the world.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Peter's POV
By Z Hayes
For those who loved The Diary of Anne Frank, and wondered what Peter's thoughts and feelings were during the two years or so he spent with Anne and the other occupants of the Secret Annexe, this book just might be of interest. Though it is a work of historical fiction, the author does put research into her work, and tries to convey Peter's voice in a credible and compelling manner, and I think for the most part she succeeds, though this is no Diary of Anne Frank.
Anne's 'voice' which rang out so clearly throughout her amazing diary is missing here, and what readers get instead is Peter's perspective of things. It is Peter's struggles both internal and external that readers get to witness here. Peter's sense of loss and derailment from an ordinary life is well-portrayed - the loss of privacy, where the most inane and intimate moments are exposed to others, all living in close proximity to each other, is conveyed in painfully excruciating detail. Here, we get to read about how Peter's relationship with Anne might have developed - from someone he found annoying to someone who shared his feelings and thoughts, and to something much more. Unlike Anne's diary which ends shortly before their discovery and arrest by the Gestapo, Peter's story takes readers beyond that point into the actual camps. The author recreates with some measure of credibility the day-to-day living in the hellish conditions of the concentration camps till the very end.
Is it a must-read? I guess it depends on what one is looking for - if it is an actual retelling of what happened in the Annex from Peter's POV, then obviously not because we can't really know for sure what actually happened except for what we know from Anne's diary and Otto Frank's accounts plus those who helped the occupants of the Annexe such as Miep Gies, etc. Peter never kept a diary and he did not survive the war - yet, if you have ever wondered about Peter, then this might prove to be an interesting reimagining. Because of the sexual content in the writing (masturbation etc.), I would suggest this for young adult readers, grades 8 and up.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
great historical fiction
By A Customer
In 1942, the Nazis continue to deploy the Final Solution. In Holland, brave Ditch hide Jews in their homes as the Nazis and local traitors hunt them down like animals. The van Pels and Frank families and others are hidden in an annex of an Amsterdam office building. Whereas optimist Anne keeps a dairy, fifteen years old Peter van Pels believes he is an artist with no canvas. He moans his fate. However, he also muses about God and observes his fellow rats scurry to survive. He thinks Anne is a child, but over the two plus years of intimate concealment, he begins to find he is attracted to her having moved on pass his infatuation with Liese. Over the next couple of years his interest changes as the Allies invasion of Normandy brings hope and a kiss of Anne makes him believe they and their fellow Jews have a future.
However, philosophical and mordant unlike Anne, his beliefs are affirmed when they are betrayed and taken away to various concentration camps. Now as he awaits death in 1945 at Mauthalsen concentration camp in Austria, he thinks back to the horrific war years when God chose to abandon his people.
This is a great historical fiction tale that uses The Diary of Anne Frank to tell the tale of life in the Annex from the perspective of Peter and limited historical record of what happened to him and the others (enhanced by Sharon Dogar) transported to deadly camps. Ms. Dogar captures the essence of Peter (at least from Anne's viewpoint) and brilliantly fills in gaps especially in the last quarter of the book that makes up the Part 2 Diaspora. Except for the deniers, this is a super companion piece to the classic as the readers must never forget any ethnic cleansing even if it is painful to do so. Also for another perspective (based on NPR and not my read yet), the audience should consider Francine prose's reflective look at Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.
Harriet Klausner
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