As a sixth grader at Lynnwood Intermediate I want to tell you a little bit about the book Hide and Seek. This book is about two young girls named Rachael and Esther in a country in which the Nazis were taking over.(They are sisters.) One day Rachael asked her father if they could read the newspaper like they do everyday. Her father said,"No, there are too many bad things going on that little girls shouldn't read." So, the next day Rachael and Esther went into hiding with this really nice catholic family. When the Nazis would come they would use a ladder and they would go into the attic. The last peron would knock the ladder down. I'm not going to tell you what else happened. I'm recommending this book because it has a good explination of what happened to a hidden child during the Holocaust. This book is good for ages ten and older. I really like this book because of the way they explained it. What would make this book better is if they had illustrations, and if they didn't make the chapters so short. That is why I rated this book a 9! Actually I would more likely rate this book between a nine and a ten.

How would you like it if everything was taken away from you, and you had nothing at all, not even your own stuffed bear, and your parents taken away from you, and everywhere you go, you had to wear a yellow star indicating that you are Jewish? Well, that is exactly what happened to Rachel and her younger sister, Esther, during World War II in Holland. They had to go into hiding from the Nazis, who were trying to blow the Jews to pieces. They were forced to live in small spaces, and constantly move from one place to the next, wondering if they were going to be killed.
The good thing was that they had nice and caring people living with them, and always having a solution to if the Nazis were going to kill them.
Throughout the three years, they were always being judged, which really put a hole in their hearts. But they learned to deal with it because they knew that God was always with them. To see if they survive the horrible events read Hide and Seek by Ida Vos.

Hi! I am a 6th grader. I read a book called Hide and Seek. I would give this book a 10. This book was about a young girl named Rachel who lived with her mom, dad and her younger sister Esther. Rachel went to school with all her friends. And for her b-day she got a new bike. But because she was Jewish she got kicked out of school. The bikes she and her family had were taken to the police. Rachel wanted to go back to school, but she could not because she was a Jew. She had to wear a yellow star that meant she was Jewish. Rachel was barely aloud outside. She had to go into hiding somtimes also. I won't tell you the end, you'll have to read the book. I would recomend this to kids that are learning about the Holocaust because it tells you a little about the Holocaust.

The book talks about how the Jewish people had still to suffer from the Holocaust although World War II was over and Holland has been liberated. The author reviews a survivor history in Holland and shows that the Holocaust was not over with the end of the war.
This book deals with a Jewish family, which parents were in a concentration champ in Poland during the war. Their daughter Anna was in hifing in Holland in an attic room for three lonely years. That was the past but now the family is reunited in Holland. The war is over, Anna goes to school again and the family has to get used to each other again.
Anna has to face several challenges. She is 13 years old but required to be a fifth-grader, because she was not in school for three years.Therefore she has to deal with a lot of questons all the other studens ask her. Nobody talks with her about what happened in the past, where her parents were and why she was in hiding by a man she didn't know. But one day she gets to know a woman, Mrs. Neuman is her name. she is Jewish too, but alos German. Mrs. Neuman was in hiding too in Holland. Anna and her talk a lot about what happened and share memories from their earlier lives. Anna reminds Mrs. Neuman of her missing daughter Fannie, who Anna tries to find. Mrs. Neuman, therefore, where the same dress everyday, which she wore when Fannie, her husband and her were torn apart years ago. The ideas of the book are represented in a well-done way. Although it's written in an easy language, I didn't get bored but could follow the story even better.
The realism of the characters is shown in a good way, because this story is based on a true story. Ida Vos looks beyond the ususal'happy' ending of survivor stories...to pose more thoughtful questions about the price of survival; her answers are hard-won and profoundly stirring.
The theme of the book is how the Jewish people were treated even when the Holocaust was said to be over. I think it's important that authors are writing about the situations during of after the war. If one thinks about that it's not even far away compared to the entire history, we should be interested what happened, although it might be really difficult to do so sometimes, we try to avoid cultural amnesia.

Poor Anna, and her family. Anna's family made it through the Second World War and Hitler's Occupation only to find it hard to live again. You see part of her and her family died along with the millions of other Jews. It was not their bodies but their spirit.
Anna's father won't allow pictures of murdered friends and family to be placed in the home, Anna's mother pretends as if the war never happened. And Anna cannot make sense of what happened to her while hiding in an attic alone with no one else around.
This book strongly reminds everyone that while the war was over the sturggling of the opressed people never really ended. This can be seen in Anna's troubles at school, Her parents inability to face facts, and Mrs. Neumann's struggle to find her child.
While not everything can be answered in one children's book this book is a great choice for a school list or any family teaching their children about the aftermath of the holocaust. Not just the horrors that happened during it, but the problems the people faced afterward.

The war is over, and the Jews have come out of hiding in Europe. However, the trauma isn't over. Anna has been reunited with her mother and her father, but it's been a long time since they've been a family.

Anna is working to be more normal, even though that is hard, considering that she is two years behind in school, she is used to being scared of everything, and she doesn't have to hide in the attic anymore.

She strikes up a friendship with an odd older lady, who, Anna and her parents first assume to be German, but then find out that she is also Jewish and suffered under the Nazis as well.

This book is an incredibly fast read, but also striking in its language, which is largely unembellished, and serves its purpose well.

This is the new Netherlands, though, and there is hope for Anna and her family, as well as Anna's friend.

This book has an amazing story about two young girls that flee from address to address, leaving their parents. This book has a very good story, yet it sometimes does get really boring. I suggest that the reader be preteen to read this book, and its a very good book to get into. I would probably have gave the book a better rating if I had read it when I was younger.

This book by Ida Vos has a real and true story behind it.It's based on the German war in Holland and with the main characters (Eva,Lisa)who are two Jewish sisters hiding from the Natzis have only eachother to depend on while going into hiding.The author her self ,having to live these awful days while being young in the 1940's in Holland has been inspired by each tragic and painful moment that she lived and has expresed everything in this marvellous book.Hope you read it!

This book was a very sad book and yes at times it got boring, but it was fairly nice listening to how the sisters had to keep moving from place to place and how the people they lived with treated them. I liked listening to how they worried about their parents and they lived with the man who made marionettes. It was sad that that man cared so much for the girls that he gave them his partion of food and didn't have enough food for himself. This book isn't the best, but it takes the holacaust story from another point of view.

Rosa De Jong is a ten-year-old girl living in Holland occupied by the Nazis. She is a talented young violinist that takes lessons from a man named Mr. Goldenstein. Rosa is a EJwish girl and the kids at her school make fun of her and dont like her at all. So Rosa stays inside and daydreams about all the Nazis disappearing.
I disliked this book because at times it got sort of boring. It kind of depressed me because of all the killing, but at other times I liked it because it taught me a lot about the Holocaust.
Ida Vos has written other books about World War 2. In which her family was involved. Those books are called Hide and Seek, and Anna is Still Here.

I read this book about 5 years ago, in 5th grade, as I have been a Holocaust nutcase since I was 11 years old. I've read everything I can get my hands on, gone to the USHMM, memorials, museums, written Miep Gies, and I can quote Anne Frank from memory. I remember taking this book out among other stacks of Holocaust Young Reader books from our small library-well, I doubt I ever returned it. Ida Vos is a genius. (And the translater, Inez Schmidt) This is a super, touching, book.