Italian / Italy
La rosa bianca di Sophie
(Sophie’s White Rose)
Assandri, Giuseppe
(text)
Cinisello Balsamo: San Paolo, [2020]. – 159 p.
(Series: Narrativa San Paolo ragazzi)
ISBN 978-88-922-2339-4
Scholl, Sophie (1921-1943) | National socialism | White Rose | Resistance | Germany | History 1921-1943
Reading age: 11+
White Ravens issue: 2021
Sophie Scholl was raised in an open-minded family that was attuned to injustices and encouraged independent-minded action. This approach to life formed the basis of Sophie’s later decisions. At the age of twenty-one she happily joined her brother Hans in Munich to take up studies in biology and philosophy. Soon she joined in the secret activities of the White Rose, a group formed by Hans and his friends to engage in peaceful resistance the National Socialist dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. But Sophie’s desire and struggle for justice and freedom ended abruptly in February 1943. Her arrest was quickly followed by a sham trial and the death penalty. The voices of Sophie, Hans and other group members were brutally, but only temporarily silenced, because their ideas have continued to spread. “Despite everything, their spirit lives on.” This powerful biographical novel tells a moving story, which will remain with the reader for a long time. [SO]