When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman tells Frank's story from the moment the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 to when her family went into hiding in the annexe of her father's office building in Amsterdam in July 1942.
The novel focuses on 11-year-old Anne as Nazi persecution of Jews in Amsterdam intensifies after the German invasion. Her father, Otto, writes to a friend in the US, hoping to move the family to safety there this is a plotline based on real correspondence between Otto and Nathan Straus Jr, kept in the Straus Historical Society's archives. However, immigration to the US proves all but impossible, and Otto prepares to hide his family.
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