Theo Coster
Autor von In einer Klasse mit Anne Frank
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- Geburtstag
- 1929
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Netherlands
- Wohnorte
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel Aviv, Israel - Berufe
- toymaker
game designer
producer - Kurzbiographie
- Theo Coster was a classmate and friend of Anne Frank at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum. A toymaker and game designer (he created the universally loved board game "Guess Who?"), he is executive producer of the documentary film The Classmates of Anne Frank.
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We All Wore Stars by, Theo Coster in Reviews of Early Reviewers Books (November 2011)
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- Bewertung
- 4.2
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- 24
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- 9
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- 4
The book is about a handful of classmates who were relegated to Amsterdam’s Jewish Lyceum during World War II.
The author and Anne Frank were among the nearly 500 boys and girls at the school. Only half of them survived the war. The author cites that 80% of the Jewish population in the Netherlands were killed during the Nazi occupation, which is twice the percentage of Jews in Belgium and France.
The book explores how many children went into hiding and how others operated under a “ghastly delusion” that they would at least avoid hunger and illness in Nazi labor camps.
The book also reveals the enormous pressure on children in hiding to be quiet and not make trouble, and the absolute lack of professional help after the war in easing the emotional trauma. The moving lore around Anne Frank’s life remains inexhaustible and eternal.
An unpleasant time in history but one that needs to be recorded. This reviewer does recommend this book and rates the book with 4 out of 5 stars.… (mehr)