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Annexed

by Sharon Dogar

3.78 · Rating Details · 4,093 Ratings · 686 Reviews

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

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Published October 4th 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (first published 2005)

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Jun 01, 2010 Allison (The Allure of Books) rated it really liked it

Shelves: war_ww1-ww2-vietnam, 2010, historical-fiction-ya

I'm not sure how to review a book like this. It is an absolutely brilliant book, but certainly not one I can claim to have enjoyed. Who could enjoy such a story? That being said, I consider it one of the best books I have ever read. It is a moving testimony to bravery, pain, suffering and hope. The Holocaust is not a time in history that we want to remember, but it is a time that we cannot let be forgotten. Books like this serve as a reminder of the lowest of humanity...but also the highest. One ...more

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Nov 24, 2011 Mafi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, 2012, pt, blogring

Se há temática que gosto muito de ler é o holocausto. "O diário de Anne Frank" é um dos meus livros favoritos e mudou a minha vida para sempre, "O Longo Inverno" de Ruta Sepetys e "O Rapaz do Pijama às Riscas" idem aspas aspas e mal vi a sinopse de "No Anexo" de Sharon Dogar, sabia que iria enventualmente querer ler aquele livro. E sabia que iria gostar e como raramente os meus gostos me enganam, posso dizer que adorei ler este livro.

Este livro não é totalmente real, sendo ficcional alguns deta ...more

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Jun 23, 2010 Chelsea rated it it was ok

Shelves: youngadult, advance, retellings, holocaust, historicalfiction, 2010

I'll start with a disclaimer: I think I was in entirely the wrong frame of mind while reading this book, so in the interest of fairness, some of my issues with it might very well be just my issues.

That said, I think this was a failed attempt to add something that The Diary of a Young Girl was never missing. Part of the impact of reading Anne's diary is that we don't get to meet the other people hiding in the Annex other than through her eyes. They were systematically murdered during the most hor ...more

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May 18, 2010 Meredith rated it liked it

Shelves: germany, holocaust, young-adult, judaism, netherlands, netgalley, reviewed, arc, fiction

Annexed was a bold undertaking. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a pretty sacred Holocaust memoir. To explore Peter's point of view in a novel constitutes a huge literary risk. On some levels, it paid off. But, as you'll notice throughout this review, this book raised a lot of questions for me.

The novel introduces Liese, Peter's fictional first girlfriend and a personification of his sexual awakening. He longs for her while trapped in the annex, and the narrative does not shy away from s Annexed was a bold undertaking. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a pretty sacred Holocaust memoir. To explore Peter's point of view in a novel constitutes a huge literary risk. On some levels, it paid off. But, as you'll notice throughout this review, this book raised a lot of questions for me.

The novel introduces Liese, Peter's fictional first girlfriend and a personification of his sexual awakening. He longs for her while trapped in the annex, and the narrative does not shy away from some of his more "vivid" dreams of her. Was she necessary? It's hard to say. In all likelihood, Peter would have had to grapple with teenage hormones while confined in close quarters with so many other people. Is it fair to put words in his mouth and thoughts in his head, to take creative license with a real person's private thoughts, though? I'll leave that one to the biographical literary critics. The fictional Liese was effective in her role here, driving home just how much Peter was missing while cooped up in the annex.

It was the interactions between Peter and Anne that felt a bit off to me. Anne came off as rather daft when seen through his eyes. I never got that impression of her from the diary, but I also read it twice when I was a teenager, when I was around her age. We know from the diaries that Anne saw the beauty in many things, but Peter's point of view made her appear annoyingly optimistic. In this regard, I felt that the book sometimes missed the mark when it came to characterizing Anne. She was a teenager, yes, but was she really that spoiled, careless, flirtatious, annoyingly optimistic, etc.? Would she and Peter really have been that frank with one another about sex? I feel like I need to reread the diary now to make a fair evaluation of this book.

In some scenes, Peter asks Anne not to write about something in her diary. This feels like a cop-out, a way to introduce fictional conversations and events into a true story chronicled quite closely in a daily diary.

The most poignant part of the book was, for the most part, pure fiction. In Part II, which doesn't begin until close to the end, we experience the concentration camp through Peter's eyes. Dogar tells us in the epilogue that she has constructed this section from secondhand accounts and pure imagination. Again, this proves effective. Part II does a good job (arguably, too good a job) of depicting the concentration camp experience. Dogar also provides a nice reading list at the back of the book for further study (I've already put the Five Chimneys memoir on hold at the library).

A side note: I wasn't a huge fan of the chapter headings in this book. They were rather dry (e.g., "Peter feels hope," "Peter wants Anne, Anne wants to write," "Anne and Peter are in his bedroom," etc.). Because they are so straightforward (essentially one-line chapter summaries), they don't add much to the narrative.

I'm the rare reader who actually enjoys present-tense narratives, and I understood why it was necessary here. Because the novel merges Peter's present-tense life in the annex with his past-tense reminiscences while in the concentration camp, uniformity of verb tense isn't really possible. My only stylistic complaint was that the writing felt a bit staccato. Lots of sentence fragments. One-sentence paragraphs. A disproportionate number of simple sentences. This was effective in times of suspense, but sometimes made it difficult to connect with Peter during more contemplative moments in the story.

Overall, I give this book points for bravery. It does read somewhat like fan fiction at points (an inevitable danger in any creative nonfiction/historical fiction novel) and sometimes stumbles in the execution. But it is also a nice attempt to lend voice to a figure who, across the decades, has remained secondary to the story. And there can never be too many novels to remind us of what people are capable of doing to one another.

(Disclaimer: I received the galley proofs of this title from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for review.) ...more

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Sep 25, 2010 Angelc rated it liked it

This book is possibly the most intense book I have read that wasn't required reading for school. I admire and appreciate the writing and the author's knowledge of the subject, but I can't say that this book was for me.

I would like to address two of the criticisms of the book that I've seen in the media. First, some feel that the author shouldn't have touched Anne's story. I don't agree with this at all. The book respectfully takes another angle on Anne's story and shows her in a different light. ...more

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Jan 30, 2017 Sara Cristina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Adorei completamente este livro!
Nas primeiras páginas, o Peter só me dava raiva porque só andava com as hormonas aos saltos. Lá está é tipico da adolescência... o livro deu uma reviravolta imensa e fiquei completamente rendida.
Recomendo vivamente para quem gostar de livros com a temática do holocausto. :)

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Sep 20, 2012 Rita rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Sharon Dogar é além de escritora, com três obras da sua autoria dirigidas a jovens-adultos publicadas, psicoterapeuta de crianças. Teve a possibilidade de ler ”O Diário de Anne Frank” quando pequena e mais tarde através da sua filha, que lhe recordou que vários eram os aspectos que tinham ficado em aberto no diário desta menina, especialmente no que dizia respeito a Peter, que compartilhou os dias com ela no anexo em que estavam escondidos.

Nunca tive a possibilidade de ler “O Diário de Anne Fran Sharon Dogar é além de escritora, com três obras da sua autoria dirigidas a jovens-adultos publicadas, psicoterapeuta de crianças. Teve a possibilidade de ler ”O Diário de Anne Frank” quando pequena e mais tarde através da sua filha, que lhe recordou que vários eram os aspectos que tinham ficado em aberto no diário desta menina, especialmente no que dizia respeito a Peter, que compartilhou os dias com ela no anexo em que estavam escondidos.

Nunca tive a possibilidade de ler “O Diário de Anne Frank”. Como sucede à maioria, conheço a história, pois quando se fala desta época da História é das primeiras narrativas que assaltam à nossa memória e que mencionamos, tendo também conhecimento da adaptação cinematográfica. Contudo, a experiência é sempre outra quando embrenhamos na obra, ainda para mais sendo uma história verídica, contada na primeira pessoa.

Possivelmente deveria ter lido “No Anexo” depois da obra da Anne, contudo estava bastante curiosa com este volume, especialmente por ser uma época que gosto bastante de ler, embora me deixe sempre com um certo sentimento de tristeza e raiva. Não me arrependo de forma alguma por ter lido este volume, pois foi uma surpresa muito boa.

Antes de se dar início à obra somos apresentados a um prólogo, escrito pela autora, que nos contextualiza sobre a história de Anne e o final da segunda guerra mundial, mostrando-nos também o que levou Sharon a escrever esta obra e os seus objectivos.

Esta obra encontra-se dividida em duas partes. Na primeira somos apresentados às ocorrências no Anexo e na segunda como foi viver nos campos de concentração. Foi interessante poder observar as ocorrências através de Peter, na primeira pessoa, ainda que em parte ficcionalmente, pois permite-nos conhecer melhor os intervenientes e ainda sermos confrontados com os momentos passados depois do anexo.

Gostei bastante dos momentos passados no anexo com Anne, a forma como estes jovens se começaram a relacionar, pois Peter gostava de uma pessoa antes de ser obrigado a esconder-se e não simpatizava muito com Anne. Foi interessante ver o florescer desta amizade, que mais tarde se transformou em algo mais. Na obra de Anne, sei que não nos é dado a conhecer momentos íntimos entre ambos, mas também gosto de pensar que tal terá sucedido. Além dos momentos carinhosos entre estes dois jovens, somos apresentados ao medo e opressão desta época. Era palpável a fome porque passaram e o medo atroz que possuíam de ser descobertos, embora tentassem manter uma vida minimamente normal, em que faziam as suas refeições em conjunto, os mais novos estudavam e os mais velhos realizavam diferentes tarefas que lhes eram destinadas.

As personagens encontram-se muito bem desenvolvidas, bastante humanizadas e os seus objectivos e ideais deveras transparentes. Sem dúvida, que me senti bastante ligada a Peter primeiramente, por ser o nosso narrador, que nos presenteia com pensamentos e diálogos bastante claros, que nos envolvem e com alguns desenhos que nos fascinam. Mais tarde também nos sentimos arrebatados com Anne, que tal como sucede com Peter, primeiro observamos com alguma estranheza, mas mais tarde com fascínio.

Relativamente à segunda parte, embora tenha sido grande parte ficcional, pois são poucos os dados que existem sobre o que sucedeu a Peter depois de sair do Anexo, foram escritos tendo como base todos os dados documentados sobre a altura. O que era realizado aos judeus que se encontravam no campo de concentração para onde Peter, o seu pai e o pai de Anne foram enviados. Tenho de confessar que esta parte da obra me emocionou profundamente, pelos questionamentos de Peter, que tenho quase a certeza que têm o seu fundo de verdade, mas pior, por tudo o que ele passou e foi obrigado a fazer de modo a sobreviver.

Numa escrita simples, ou não fosse narrada na primeira pessoa por um jovem, mas repleta de emoções, Sharon Dogar apresenta-nos nesta obra ficcional, o que foi viver com Anne, conhecer e aprender a amar alguém de quem inicialmente não gostava, a ser enviado para um dos campos de concentração mais cruéis da altura. Neste volume somos apresentados a várias realidades, ao florescer da amizade, ao amor juvenil, mas sobretudo à luta pela sobrevivência e à necessidade de procurar a felicidade.

“No Anexo” foi uma obra que me deu um prazer enorme de ler, que me fez sorrir com os momentos ternurentos vividos entre Anne e Peter e emocionar-me com os momentos atrozes que inúmeras pessoas tiveram de atravessar, devido aos ideais de um homem horrível. Sem dúvida, que recomendo esta obra que tanto me disse.

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Feb 03, 2017 Ângela rated it really liked it

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“Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for.”

I’ve never read Anne Frank’s Diary, but knowing that this book is based on people who actually existed and suffered so much is really awful.

Reading about the WWII is absolutly nerve-wracking and deeply sorrowing, but it is also important once it reminds us of what may happen when we think that we are superior to others and because of that we freely discriminate and look down agains ...more

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May 17, 2010 April rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, historical-fiction, for-review, netgalley, bea-2010

Were you assigned Diary of A Young Girl in school? If not, I am willing to bet you know who Anne Frank was and all about the annex. We all know Anne's ultimate fate,but it doesn't make her diary any less touching. Knowing the ending doesn't detract from the emotional impact.
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Jan 31, 2017 Dora Santos Marques rated it really liked it

A minha opinião em vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7K5n...

Um livro que me surpreendeu totalmente, não pela história, mas sim, pela originalidade da maneira que foi escrito e apresentado ao leitor.
Que boa surpresa!

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Dec 21, 2011 Maddison rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own-want-for-buddy-reads, uno

I liked this account from Peter's perspective of their time in the Annex! It was really eye-opening, and probably true: those hours of boringness, yet those seconds of complete terror that make you long for the boringness once more. I like how Peter even still loved Leise, right through it all, and that he couldn't forget her. I kind of feel like he didn't regret what he didn't do enough, but what could he have done? I can't even begin to imagine the hardship and struggle the Jews went through i ...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Mnemosyne rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Para mim, este livro tem pontos a favor e contra.
A favor tem o tema, porque nunca se escreverá demais sobre o holocausto.
Gostei da personagem principal, e de “assistir” ao seu enamoramento por Anne, como uma forma de manter a esperança e o sonho de sobreviver.
Gostei da parte final muito comovente e quase poética.
Não gostei da técnica de escrita, com frases demasiado curtas. Trata-se de um romance, não de um telegrama.
Detestei a repetição permanente da frase: “Assinto com a cabeça.” Há uma página ...more

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Jul 01, 2010 Megan rated it liked it

Shelves: children-and-young-adult, historical-fiction, 3-stars, fiction

Sharon Dogar's ANNEXED is an interpretive imagining of Peter van Pels, the sixteen-year-old boy whose family hides with the Frank family and Fritz Pfeffer in a secret annex for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This fictional account covers the years spent in the annex and his final months spent at Auschwitz and Mauthausen.

With its publication date months away, ANNEXED has received criticism from both the press and blogs for adding a fictionalized sexual dimension to the s Sharon Dogar's ANNEXED is an interpretive imagining of Peter van Pels, the sixteen-year-old boy whose family hides with the Frank family and Fritz Pfeffer in a secret annex for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This fictional account covers the years spent in the annex and his final months spent at Auschwitz and Mauthausen.

With its publication date months away, ANNEXED has received criticism from both the press and blogs for adding a fictionalized sexual dimension to the story of Anne Frank. These sources definitely raise some important questions: Is it necessary to do so? What does this story bring to the account of Anne Frank that Anne's diary does not?

Peter may be designated by the book's subtitle as "the boy who loved Anne Frank," but this book is not a teenage romance insensitively set against a backdrop of genocide. Peter's changing relationship to Anne is a major component of the book, certainly, but it's not what defines Dogar's characterization of Peter.

Getting this out of the way first: there is no sex scene. There is very little that's graphic in the portrayal of Peter's sexuality or the feelings he has for Anne or she for him. It's no more graphic than Anne's musings about menstruation, sex, and her own sexuality in her own diary. Peter privately expresses a repeated worry that he'll never make love to a girl. Peter and Anne kiss and touch rather chastely. Peter feels longing: for Anne, for love, for freedom, for even the smallest forms of empowerment, for the childhood and the life he's being denied but also for adulthood.

Peter's struggle with his identity, and all the different facets of it -- family, faith, culture, nationality, his uncertain future, the dynamic of connection and alienation, his sexual awakening -- is what I found most engaging about the book. Putting together a coherent identity (and learning how to live that identity!) is difficult enough for any sixteen-year-old, but under the crisis of war and genocide, it's an even more intense project. Dogar does a good job with depicting the disparate and conflicted emotions of the teenagers in the book (Peter, Anne, and Margot), all filtered through Peter's eyes, and in this way, it's a mirror of Anne's diary. I was a young teenager when I first read Anne Frank's diary, and I was struck most by how I could see myself and my feelings in Anne and her writing. Anne's honesty about her emotions and her full personhood are so vivid in her diary, and in this novel, Dogar gives the same type of attention to Peter, whose emotional journey intersects Anne's.

The writing is at times stilted and melodramatic, but the poignancy still often shines through. Peter struggles with words, in comparison to the voluble Anne, and the theme of words and their significance is returned to, time and time again, in a thought-provoking way.

So what is the value of ANNEXED, of a fictional interpretation of an already compelling non-fictional account? When what so many people find memorable and poignant about Anne's diary is its honesty and its authenticity, what value is there in a fictionalized companion to it? Even after reading this book, I'm not sure. I would have been equally moved by the story if Peter were a completely fictional character, and as with all historical fiction, I feel dread about the possibility of readers going on to take or to remember this fiction as fact. Dogar seemed to have approached this project with an open heart and sensitivity for the real life tragedy and for the memory of Anne, Peter, and the others, and the story of Anne Frank is a global touchstone for which a wide audience would be interested in reading about further. However, I'm left with the feeling that this piece of fiction didn't necessarily have to be about real life figures, especially as a representative of the Anne Frank Trust has expressed misgivings about the depiction of these people in this book.

ANNEXED will be released in September 2010 in the U.K. and in October 2010 in the U.S.

Note: I read a review copy provided by NetGalley.

On the Controversy: Sharon Dogar fights back over 'sexed up' Anne Frank novel, The Guardian, June 22, 2010 ...more

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Feb 24, 2013 Cata rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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No Anexo traz-nos a história de Peter van Pels e está dividido em duas partes: a primeira é uma espécie de Diário de Anne Frank, mas segundo o POV do Peter e a segunda parte é o relato da sua ‘estadia’ num campo de concentração nazi. Esta é uma história ficcional , baseada em acontecimentos verídicos [esse facto é mencionado logo no Prólogo, o que é óptimo pois não induz ninguém em erro]

E agora vem a parte em que sou insensível: não gostei do livro!

É certo que é baseado em factos rea 1,5 estrelas

No Anexo traz-nos a história de Peter van Pels e está dividido em duas partes: a primeira é uma espécie de Diário de Anne Frank, mas segundo o POV do Peter e a segunda parte é o relato da sua ‘estadia’ num campo de concentração nazi. Esta é uma história ficcional , baseada em acontecimentos verídicos [esse facto é mencionado logo no Prólogo, o que é óptimo pois não induz ninguém em erro]

E agora vem a parte em que sou insensível: não gostei do livro!

É certo que é baseado em factos reais, que as personagens existiram mesmo, que sofreram horrores inimagináveis [tanto físicos, como psicológicos] mas… adolescentes são sempre adolescentes e a intensidade com que sentem as coisas e o drama que fazem à volta delas é algo que me faz querer puxar pelos cabelos [atenção que não estou a desvalorizar os seus sentimentos. Acredito que sofram e que tenham a alma dilacerada… só que já não tenho paciência para esse tipo de drama, percebem?]. O romance entre Peter e Anne não me convenceu minimamente, acho que se sentiram atraídos única e exclusivamente porque estavam confinados num local muito limitado e as opções eram escassas ou nulas, mas que não chegou a ser amor amor.

"Está aí alguém?", pergunta ele. "Está alguém a ouvir?" a quantidade de vezes que li isto deu-me náuseas. Sim, estou aqui. Sim, estou a ouvir-te raios! Continua… era o que eu pensava. Mais uma prova que sou insensível… o pequeno estava em agonia, provavelmente a delirar um pouco e só queria que alguém o ouvisse e eu reajo desta maneira [shame on me!]

Mas o que mais me deixou triste em relação ao livro foi o facto deste não ter tocado naquela parte de mim que me teria feito sentir o que as personagens sentiram, excepto a claustrofobia [oh, isso eu senti bastante...]. Medo, dor, dúvidas, resignação, determinação em sobreviver… where are you? Os personagens sentiram-nas… e eu fiquei a ver. Estava preparar para chorar mais lágrimas do que as que existem nas Cataratas do Niagara, mas afinal chorei tanto como o Deserto do Saara no pico no Verão.

Atenção que esta é apenas a minha opinião. Estou convicta que os amantes do Diário de Anne Frank e aficcionados da II GM devorarão sofregamente e adorarão cada página deste livro.

Livro lido no Blog Ring, cedido pela Tink! Obrigada*
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May 27, 2010 Inge rated it it was amazing

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My test of a good book is the one that completely envelopes your life, the kind that makes you think you're living it even when you're not holding the book in your hands. Though the subject matter is horrific, it has a sense of simple-ness and clarity that you cannot escape from. To say Annexed is powerful is a complete understatement.

Anne Frank teaches her annex-mate Peter the value of words and value of baring witness to the unthinkable events happening all around him.

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Nov 30, 2011 Maria rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Li O Diário de Anne Frank no início da minha adolescência e foi aí que tomei consciência, pela primeira vez, dos horrores do Holocausto. Depois disso, foram muitos os livros, que me forma mostrando de diversas formas como esses horrores foram perpetrados. Em No Anexo, Sharon Dogar, quis mostrar, embora de forma ficcionada, o que foi viver no anexo durante aquele tempo entre 1942 e 1944 sob o mesmo tecto dos Frank's, mas do olhar de Peter, o apaixonado de Anne. Será que se não tivessem estado jun ...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Dana rated it it was ok

Annexed tells the story of Peter Van Pels, the boy who was in hiding with Anne Frank in the secret annex. This book is historical fiction, as the author bases the story on fact and the rest she “imagines”. I had a hard time reading this book. In a way, I feel as though imagining what Peter felt is disrespectful to his memory. Especially because much of what he feels and thinks about in this book is of a sexual nature. One of his main regrets being that he will die without making love to a girl. ...more

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Feb 11, 2011 Jaclyn rated it really liked it

Emotionally wrenching story based on "The Diary of Anne Frank" but taken from the Peter, the teen boy's point of view that was also in hiding. I found Dogar's writing to be very powerful and showed proof she certainly did her homework while writing this book. It is definetely a mature teen book as some thoughts on sexuality are shared, but nothing is inappropriate. It is just part of the adolescent journey the reader is on with an Peter as he ponders many questions common to young adults:
Why wo ...more

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May 14, 2010 Abby Johnson rated it really liked it

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It's 1942 and Europe is at war. For the Jewish van Pels family, this war means almost-certain death and they have no choice but to go into hiding with another family, the Franks. For sixteen-year-old Peter van Pels, sharing a tiny space with seven other people, this means no privacy. It means that he has to sit around instead of going to fight like a man. And it means he has to put up with Anne, a thirteen-year-old chatterbox who's constantly writing about him in her diary. As the years wear on, ...more

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Feb 09, 2012 Paula pccst rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Quase todos nós conhecemos o testemunho de Anne Frank. Foi através do seu diário que conseguimos saber as privações e sofrimentos a que os judeus foram submetidos.
Quando tive conhecimento do livro "No Anexo" nem pensei duas vezes em lê-lo. Primeiro porque nunca é demais alimentarmos a nossa cultura e porque é um assunto que me fascina e do qual tenho imenso respeito.
Assim, e através do jovem Peter, tive possibilidade de conhecer um novo testemunho e uma nova visão do sucedido.
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Oct 18, 2012 Maria rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Um livro difícil de ler, pelo seu conteúdo, pela sua história... Li à uns anos anos atrás "O Diário de Anne Frank" e foi um livro que me marcou. Custa muito acreditar na crueldade das pessoas, neste caso não apenas contra uma pessoa mas contra todas as pessoas que acreditavam numa determinada religião. Doi ler estas coisas mas é bom que nos recordemos destas situações para que nunca tornem a acontecer...

Em relação à história em si, não acrescenta nada de novo ao Diário de Anne Frank, a história ...more

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Jan 04, 2017 Marita_z rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Leva 2* por causa da 2a parte e estou a ser simpática.. Este livro não trouxe nada de novo à história... Senti que estava novamente a ler o diário de Anne Frank, mas do ponto de vista de um puto mimado e egoísta. A segunda parte mostra-nos um pouco do que foi sobreviver num campo de concentração, mas não o suficiente...
Meh..

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Jan 12, 2016 Ana rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Este livro é uma perspectiva diferente do Diário de Anne Frank, esta segundo a voz de Peter van Pels. A narrativa conta a vida e os anseios destes dois jovens que se vêem confinados ao mesmo espaço numa altura em que teriam tanto para viver.

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In Annexed, author Sharon Dogar imagines what life in the Annex with Anne Frank must have been like for young Peter. We know all about Anne's thoughts and feelings, but surely Peter needs a chance to tell his side of things too. The novel begins as Peter is dying and looking back on his life, desperate to tell someone his story.

The first part of this book was really about 4 stars for me. It wasn't anything hugely different from what I would have imagined, but it was nice to see a different persp ...more

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May 27, 2011 Rebecca- Books rated it liked it

I found this in my local library when my mother dumped me there to entertain myself so she could go around the corner to get an eyebrow wax - something I don't yet want to try as it looks so painful.
I got it out mostly based on the fact that it had something to do with Anne Frank. Having read The Diary of Anne Frank after seeing the 5 episode BBC dramatisation of the book, this seemed like the perfect book that I would like, as well as the fact I am doing my History GCSE on Tuesday on Germany. I ...more

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Feb 07, 2017 Kaelyn added it

Peter Van Pels and his family have to go into hiding because of the Nazi but they have to hide with another family the Frank's. Peter would rather take his chances on the streets than hid with Ann Frank. As they hid Peters feeling change about Ann they spend hours in the attic as they hid and talk. As they wait for the allies to invade Holland. Will Peter and his family and the Frank's survive intel the allies come.

My favorite part of the story is when Peter goes into hiding with his family.

I wo ...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Alex Baugh rated it really liked it

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Annexed is a fictionalized imagining of the content in the diary kept by Anne Frank in hiding, but this time life in the annex is told by Peter van Pels.

And I have to admit I started reading Annexed with a great deal of trepidation. After all, it had caused quite a sensation when it was published. Sharon Dogar was accused exploiting Anne’s diary and of ‘sexualizing’ her. There were many who did not want to see this Anne Frank. But, while the Anne of the diary may be a symbol of courage and hope, Annexed is a fictionalized imagining of the content in the diary kept by Anne Frank in hiding, but this time life in the annex is told by Peter van Pels.

And I have to admit I started reading Annexed with a great deal of trepidation. After all, it had caused quite a sensation when it was published. Sharon Dogar was accused exploiting Anne’s diary and of ‘sexualizing’ her. There were many who did not want to see this Anne Frank. But, while the Anne of the diary may be a symbol of courage and hope, the real life Anne, as we know now know, was much more human, a teen who could be self-centered, demanding and highly critical of those around her one moment and sweet, charming and full of confidence the next. And who also thought about love and sex. In other word, Anne Frank was a typical 13 year old adolescent. And, to her credit, Dogar has captured this human version of Anne so well in Annexed.

But now, it is Peter van Pels’s turn to tell his story. The real Peter was only 15 years old when he disappeared into the annex. In this imagined version, Peter is at first portrayed as angry, sullen and resentful, not wanting to go into hiding, especially not with Anne Frank and her family. But after witnessing his girlfriend and her family being rounded up by the Gestapo, he realizes it is the only real option left to him.

Once he is inside the annex, Peter just wants to sleep. Everyone there gets on his nerves, especially the always cheerful, constantly talking, sometimes critical Anne. But gradually he gets up and starts participating in life in the annex. At first, Peter, Anne and her sister Margot spend a lot of their time together in the attic, but gradually an attraction begins to bloom between Anne and Peter, much to the disapproval of the adults around them, particularly Anne’s parents.

But as curious as Peter and Anne are, this relationship doesn’t go beyond some cuddling and a kiss. It is all in the diary and Dogar has not added anything to it except Peter’s feelings. Dogar makes it clear that this fictionalized Peter, like Anne, is afraid of missing out on an intimate relationship with a girl because of the circumstance under which is now lives.

Annexed is written in two parts. The first part covers daily life in the annex. Each chapter begins with a date and a one line description of what is going to happen, yet Dogar doesn’t seek to imitate Anne’s diary doing this. This part is interspersed with Peter’s thoughts as he lay dying in Mauthausen’s sick bay and this gives the impression that he is reflecting on his life in the annex. The second, much smaller part of the novel takes place in the camps - Auschwitz and Mauthausen. It too is told reflexively at Mauthausen.

I thought that Dogar’s portrayal of Peter is completely believable. He probably was, after all, a teenage boy with all the fear, anger, frustration and resentment of hiding and being confined simply for being a Jew, as well as all the thoughts, urges and questions about girls, love, and sex that boys have at the age.

Sadly, no one knows who betrayed the people in the annex. It could have happened any number of ways. Dogar does intimate that the betrayal and a break-in may be linked, but that is all. It remains a mystery even today.

All in all, I thought Dogar did a great job in imagining the the annex from Peter’s point of view. And it is important to remember Annexed is a fiction, even though it feels so real a times. Perhaps because there are so many parts of the story that are more obviously taken from what Anne had written in her diary. Which is not to imply that Dogar simply rewrote the diary. Peter is his own person in the novel. But I do think it is important to read Dogar’s afterward, to see where she has taken poetic license and why.

Most important, I feel that Dogar remains respectful of Anne Frank’s memory as a hero of Holocaust, and reminds us that everyone in that annex is a hero, too, in their own way. But she doesn’t let us forget that they were also human, and heroes are always more heroic when we remember that they are only human.

This book is recommended for readers age 14 and up.
This book was borrowed from the Webster Branch of the NYPL.
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Feb 05, 2012 Kayla rated it it was amazing

When I first saw this book in the book store, I'll admit, I was pretty excited and purchased it right away without a second thought. I'm one of those people who is interested in learning about this ghastly period in history- its just awful to think of what human beings are really capable of. I've always been interested especially about Peter Van Pels. Don't ask me why, I couldnt tell you. However, though my initial reaction was that of interest when I got home and thought about it I became wary When I first saw this book in the book store, I'll admit, I was pretty excited and purchased it right away without a second thought. I'm one of those people who is interested in learning about this ghastly period in history- its just awful to think of what human beings are really capable of. I've always been interested especially about Peter Van Pels. Don't ask me why, I couldnt tell you. However, though my initial reaction was that of interest when I got home and thought about it I became wary about actually picking it up. There are so many ways that this could go horribly horribly wrong.

About a year later when I finally got the courage to pick it up, I was pleasantly surprised at what I found. Sharon Dogar clearly did lots of research before writing this work, and it didnt come off as disrespectful in any way- which honestly was my biggest fear going into this. She's a very good writer and the way it was set up was done well. It was done in two parts, The Annex and The Camps, along with a preface and an epilogue. It was also broken up into moderately sized chapters, which werent numbered but had a heading such as; August 21, 1942- Peter's Father is Angry. I liked the size of the chapters, because it provided a perfect stopping point and I loved the dates at the beginning of each chapter. However I could have done without the, to put it bluntly, kind of corny headings which basically just summed up what you were about to read.

As far as how she did in the actual writing of the characters, she did a pretty good job. Peter I thought was very true to how the actual Peter Van Pels was portrayed in Anne's diary, though I've only read bits and pieces and seen a few of the movies. The rest of the characters also stayed true, though the only problem I had was in the portrayal of Anne herself. I felt like Dogar made her rather annoying- and as most people do I generally find Anne Frank very likeable- so I wasnt thrilled with that.

I also felt like Dogar had a few cop outs in the book. For instance several times there would be a conversation that didnt take place in Annes actual diary, and this would be explained by Peter asking Anne not to write about it in her diary. I dont know why but it irritated me at points. But for the most part the way Dogar presented Peter as the shy, insecure boy who was confused about his loyalty towards his religion and nervous about things like sex was very effective. It was true to what a sixteen year old boy stuck in an inclosed space with his family and people he hardly knows, for an indefinite amount of time, would be going through.

I really liked the tone of the book, and as I said before I loved the way it was written. Especially in Part 2 you really got to see her talent in her heart wrenching portayal of the death camps. This also represented all the research she had done, it went through the trip there and what we know of Peters actual time in Auschwitz. She filled in the blanks to certain things she wasnt positive about, but they were educated guesses to the best of her knowledge.

In the epilogue at the end of the book it reveals the fate of each of the people who lived in the annex. This may have been the most hear breaking part, you learn about how they died, and find that only Otto Frank survived.

After reading this I recommend that all young adults read this book. It's eye opening, and I think teens would benefit from reading it. If nothing else, at least the second part in order to get an idea of how absolutely dispicable the nazi's really were. This book makes you feel a mixture of sadness and anger but also a bit of happiness during some of the scenes in the annex. Some of Peter and Anne's conversations are very deep and definately force you to think. This was a hard task to undertake but Sharon Dogar did a very good job with it. It definately resonates with you for days after you finish and I personally still think about it sometimes, and I read it at the very beginning of January.

Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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"May 1945- Peter: Austria, Mauthausen, Sick Bay I think I'm still alive. But I'm not sure. I'm ill. I must be because I'm lying down. We never lie down. In the camps there's no such thing as rest." - Prologue; Page 1Annexed

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