One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping (23 page)

“One last thing: When I was twelve, I read
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Every year I re-read it, along with more current books and documentaries. The true beauty of Anne Frank’s diary is that she always sounds so incredibly real. Her diary makes the Holocaust personal, not political; individual, not anonymous.

“I wrote Julie Weiss’s diary with Anne Frank’s near me at all times so I wouldn’t forget, truly, what I was doing. It was a constant source of inspiration.”

Denenberg’s nonfiction works include
An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh,
which was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; and
Voices from Vietnam,
an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a
Booklist
Editors’ Choice, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. He lives with his wife and their daughter in Westchester County, New York.

I’ll never write a book good enough for Jean, so this will have to do.

The author would like to thank Amy Griffin for her sensitive editor-ial work, and Chris Kearin and his fellow “book people” for their help.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following: Cover portrait: Photograph of Liesl Joseph-Loeb, from
Voyage of the
Damned, by Gordon Thomas.

Cover background: Nazi soldiers marching, Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin. Page 2: Hofburg Gate, Tony Frenkl Collection of the Austrian Heritage Collection, Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. Pages 8, 114–115: “Gott Spricht zu jedem… /God Speaks to Each of Us,”

from
Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Copyright © 1996 by Anita Burrows and Joanna Macy. Used by permission of Putnam Berkley, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

Page 74: “Someone to Watch Over Me” copyright © 1926 by George and Ira Gershwin. All rights reserved. Used by permission of WARNER BROTHERS PUBLICATIONS U.S. Inc., Miami, Florida 33014.

Page 122: Central Park, Corbis-Bettman.

Page 224 (top): Kartnersträsse, FPG International, New York.

Page 224 (bottom): Alice im Wunderland, photograph © Fritz Simak, Meidlinger Hauptstraße.

Page 225 (top): Parlor in Jewish home, Leo Baeck Institute, New York. Page 225 (bottom): Austrian Jews socialize in lounge, 1930. Museen der Stadt Wien, Austria/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Page 226: Nazi students collect books, 1933. Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin. Page 227: Nazis burn books, 1933. Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin.

Page 228: Hitler’s motorcade, 1938. Imperial War Museum/Archive Photos. Page 229: Hitler’s speech at Hofburg in Vienna, 1938. Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin.

Page 230 (top): May Day march, Vienna, 1938. Library of Congress. Page 230 (bottom): Girls with Star of David patches in Vienna, 1941.

Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Zeitgeschichte/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Page 231: Hitler reviewing soldiers. Wide World Photo.

Page 232 (top): Aron Meczer and other youth leaders in Vienna, 1940.

Courtesy Jacob Metzer.

Page 232 (bottom): Jewish students are humiliated in front of classmates, 1938. Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, Ltd., London/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Neg. 02748.

Page 233: Jewish youth forced to paint “
Jude
” on father’s store, 1938.

Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Zeitgeschichte/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Page 234 (top): Viennese Jews scrub slogans from the streets. Dokumen-tationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

Page 234 (bottom): Arrival of deportees at Auschwitz. Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pennsylvania.

Page 235: Jewish Emigration, Vienna 1938–1939. Oesterreichische

Gesellschaft fuer Zeitgeschichte/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Page 237: Fifth Avenue, New York City, c. 1939. Culver Pictures, New York.

Page 238: Central Park, New York City. Ewing Galloway.

Page 239: Family listening to radio. FPG International, New York. Page 240 (top): Times Square, New York City. Ewing Galloway.

Page 240 (bottom): Broadway, New York City, c. 1930. Ewing Galloway. Page 241 (top): Backstage tryouts, 1940. Culver Pictures.

Page 241 (bottom): Backstage rehearsal. Culver Pictures.

Page 242: Poster for
Our Town.
Museum of the City of New York Theatre Collection.

Page 243: Maps by Heather Saunders.

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