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4 CDs It is war. 1942, winter. In the evening, in the dark, the sisters Annie and Sini de Leeuw are taken to a house in Usselo, not far from Enschede - and actually not far from where they lived with their families in Winterswijk. It is unsafe for Jews, the Germans are hunting them. In Usselo, Annie and Sini are allowed to go into hiding in the house of Johan, Dientje and grandma Oosterveld. But they do not feel safe with that warm peasant family either. Every day they have to stay indoors, be quiet and be careful. They are always afraid that someone will see or hear them and betray them. Or that Germans come and discover the secret hideout. The war is going on for a long time and Annie can hardly stand it. Johanna Reiss was born Annie de Leeuw into a Jewish family in Winterswijk. During the Second World War she went into hiding with a family in Usselo. Since 1962 she has lived and worked in the heart of New York City. To tell her daughters what she had been through, she wrote The Upstairs Room, translated as The Hiding Place.
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