^ "A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969 (catalog entry)".^ "Ontmoeting met Johanna Reiss" (in Dutch)."Gramercy's 'Anne Frank' Tells of Three Years in Attic Hiding From Nazis". In May 2018, she was awarded the Knight of Order of Orange-Nassau in recognition of her speaking efforts by the Dutch government. Reiss regularly visits schools in both the US and Europe to talk about her experience of the Holocaust in The Netherlands. In 2009, Reiss wrote A Hidden Life, a memoir about her childhood memories, as well as her husband's suicide. This tells the story of Reiss and her family's attempt to rebuild their lives after the war. The Upstairs Room's success led to Reiss writing a sequel, The Journey Back, published in 1976. Elie Wiesel commented that The Upstairs Room was "as important in every respect as the one bequeathed to us by Anne Frank." It also won the National Jewish Book Award, the Juvenile Book Award and the Buxtehuder Bulle, a German children's book award.
It won several awards, including a Newbery Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and a Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book. Reiss's YA novel The Upstairs Room, which outlined her experiences during the Second World War, was published in 1972. Her husband encouraged her to write about her experiences during the war, which resulted in the young adult novel, The Upstairs Room. In 1955 she moved to the United States, where she married Jim Reiss and brought up two daughters. Īfter World War II, Reiss graduated from college and taught elementary school. Her mother was in hospital, where she died from causes unrelated to the conflict, and her father and oldest sister Rachel were in hiding, separately. Reiss was from a Jewish family and survived the Holocaust, along with her older sister Sini, by hiding in the attic of a farming family (Johan and Dientje Oosterveld, and his mother, Opoe) in the rural village of Usselo for three years.
A Hidden Life, which Lucy Kavaler calls "one of the most moving books" she has ever read, is the story of one woman's perseverance through past and present tragedy.Johanna Reiss was born Johanna "Annie" de Leeuw on 4 April 1932 in Winterswijk in The Netherlands, one of three sisters. But during that time, a worse and more immediate tragedy befell her: her husband returned to America early and committed suicide. While there, she had to confront her painful memories. She made this journey in the summer of 1969, spending nearly two months in the Netherlands with her husband and her two young children. After living there for several years, she decided to visit the family that aided her during the harrowing Nazi years.
In the postwar period, she immigrated to the United States. She had been 10 years old at the beginning of World War II, and spent nearly three years hiding from the Nazis with a family in Usselo in a rural part of the Netherlands. In A Hidden Life, Reiss recounts her visit to the home of her youth and the tragedy that followed. Reiss won the Newbery Medal for her account of her experiences as a child during the Holocaust, The Upstairs Room, which was followed by the sequel The Journey Back, both published by HarperCollins. A Hidden Life is a memoir by Dutch-American author Johanna Reiss.
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