The Upstairs Room is a 1972 Holocaust survivor autobiography by Johanna Reiss documenting her childhood in occupied Holland during the Nazi invasion.
Famous quotes containing the words upstairs and/or room:
“After a while
it walks over and taps
on the upstairs window with a bunch
of red berries. Will he wake?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)