Jeska Verstegen
Autor de I'll Keep You Close
Obras de Jeska Verstegen
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Through school history lessons, her grandmother's photo albums, her father's encyclopedias, "The Diary of Anne Frank" and visits to the library she slowly starts to assemble pieces of the puzzle. As Jeska learns what happened to her family during WWII so does the reader, revealing the horror of the time and the inter-generational trauma that still existed, especially in her mother.
At the end of the book, there was a link to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum which showed a short chip of five-year-old Hesje laughing, playing and running happily around. It made me cry knowing that a few months later this beautiful, innocent little girl was murdered simply because of her race. So utterly cruel and heartless!… (más)