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Johanna Reiss was born Johanna "Annie" de Leeuw on 4 April 1932 in Winterswijk in The Netherlands, one of three sisters.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.
Reiss is known as Annie de Leeuw during the period in this book. The story begins in the year 1938. Annie belongs to a Jewish family and has two sisters, Rachel and Sini. Now, the Holocaust has started so they have nowhere to go. Her family is in grave danger. In the story, Annie and her elder sister Sini are separated from their family.
In A Hidden Life, Reiss recounts her visit to the home of her youth and the tragedy that followed. 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 the postwar period, she immigrated to the United States.
A Hidden Life, a memoir by Johanna Reiss A Hidden Life (2001 film) , a Brazilian drama film A Hidden Life (2019 film) , a historical drama film directed by Terrence Malick
Johanna van Beethoven (née Reiß [Reiss]; 1786–1869) was the sister-in-law of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. She is remembered for the bitter custody battle between herself and the composer over her son Karl , one of the ugliest and most traumatic episodes in the composer's life.
On 25 May 1806 Kaspar married Johanna Reiß (1786–1869), who was six months pregnant with his son, whom they named Karl (1806–1858). Ludwig and Johanna were on bad terms from the start, and relations between the two brothers deteriorated after Kaspar's marriage. Kaspar's home was the scene of an anecdote often told about Ludwig.
Karl van Beethoven (4 September 1806 – 13 April 1858) was the only son born to Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven and Johanna van Beethoven (née Reiß: Reiss) and the sole nephew of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. He is mainly remembered for being the center of a bitter custody battle between his mother and famous uncle after his father's death.
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