Johanna Reiss

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Johanna Reiss , (born April 4, 1932 in Winterswijk as Annie de Leeuw ) is a Dutch Holocaust survivor, contemporary witness and children's book author . She became known through the book De schuilplaats , in which she describes life as a persecuted underground person in the village of Usselo near Enschede during the Second World War . Several of her books have been translated into German.

After the war, Johanna Reiss emigrated to the United States , where she married Jim Reiss.

In 2017 Reiss visited the Humberghaus in Westmünsterland and presented her books, as their themes and those of the historical site are similar.

Works

  • The Upstairs Room. 1972
    • Übers. Inge M. Artl: And heaven in the window. Youth novel. Benziger, Cologne 1975, numerous. Ed.
    • Neuübers. Nina Frey: And heaven in the window. A true story. dtv, Munich 2015
  • De schuilplaats (1974)
  • Geen bad jaar (1976)
  • The fatal night (1988)
  • Een Hidden Leven (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book author Johanna Reiss visits Humberghaus. Visit from Manhattan. Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt , by Herbert Sekulla, June 19, 2017; In front of the Humberghaus, with a photo
  2. ^ The Upstairs Room. Retrieved August 3, 2019 (Kirkus Review).
personal data
SURNAME Reiss, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leeuw, Annie de (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Holocaust survivor, contemporary witness and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterswijk