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|pub_date = January 8, 2014 |
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|image = 8thGrade.jpg |
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|first appearance = Tor.com |
|first appearance = Tor.com |
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| + | |collected = [[The Best of Harry Turtledove]] |
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|illustrator = Robert Hunt |
|illustrator = Robert Hunt |
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| + | |genre = [[Alternate history]] |
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| − | + | }}'''"The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging"''' is a short story by [[Harry Turtledove]], published at Tor.com on January 8, 2014. [http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/01/the-eighth-grade-history-class-visits-the-hebrew-home-for-the-aging-harry-turtledove Click here to read the story.] It was reprinted in the collection ''[[The Best of Harry Turtledove]]'' (2021). |
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| − | It is a very narrowly defined [[alternate history]] story, with the sole [[Point of Divergence]] being limited to [[Anne Frank]] and her family |
+ | It is a very narrowly defined [[alternate history]] story, with the sole [[Point of Divergence]] being limited to [[Anne Frank]] and her family successfully maintaining their hiding place until the liberation of the [[Netherlands]] in 1945. It might be better described as an "alternate biography", as broader history is not obviously changed by Frank surviving, immigrating to the [[United States of America]] and raising a family of her own. |
| + | The story has the elderly Anne Berkowitz (née Frank) recounting her experiences to an eighth-grade history class from a [[Junipero Middle School|local middle school]] at the [[Hebrew Home for the Aging|retirement home]] where she resides. |
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| − | The POD is apparently that whoever turned in the Franks and others hiding in the [[Secret Annexe]] in OTL never did so. Anne Frank lives the life of post-Holocaust Jewish immigrant to America. |
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| + | * "[[The House That George Built]]", a story that's similar in structure, and focuses on an "alternate biography" of a historical figure: [[Babe Ruth]]. |
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| + | * "[[Cayos in the Stream]]," a story about [[Ernest Hemingway]], which has some similarities to the "alternate biography" genre, but is a very different kind of story. |
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Revision as of 15:29, 13 May 2021
| "The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging" | |
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| First Appearance | Tor.com |
| Collected | The Best of Harry Turtledove |
| Illustrator | Robert Hunt |
| Genre(s) | Alternate history |
| Publication date | January 8, 2014 |
"The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published at Tor.com on January 8, 2014. Click here to read the story. It was reprinted in the collection The Best of Harry Turtledove (2021).
It is a very narrowly defined alternate history story, with the sole Point of Divergence being limited to Anne Frank and her family successfully maintaining their hiding place until the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. It might be better described as an "alternate biography", as broader history is not obviously changed by Frank surviving, immigrating to the United States of America and raising a family of her own.
The story has the elderly Anne Berkowitz (née Frank) recounting her experiences to an eighth-grade history class from a local middle school at the retirement home where she resides.
See Also
- "The House That George Built", a story that's similar in structure, and focuses on an "alternate biography" of a historical figure: Babe Ruth.
- "Cayos in the Stream," a story about Ernest Hemingway, which has some similarities to the "alternate biography" genre, but is a very different kind of story.
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