Born in the Netherlands at a time when girls are to be housewives and mothers and nothing else, Hendrika de Vries is a “daddy’s girl” until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the Resistance. In the aftermath of her father’s departure, Hendrika watches as freedoms formerly taken for granted are eroded with escalating brutality by men with swastika armbands who aim to exterminate those they deem “inferior” and those who do not obey.
As time goes on, Hendrika absorbs her mother’s strength and faith, and learns about moral choice and forced silence. She sees her hidden Jewish “stepsister” betrayed, and her mother interrogated at gunpoint. She and her mother suffer near starvation, and they narrowly escape death on the day of liberation. But they survive it all—and through these harrowing experiences, Hendrika discovers the woman she wants to become.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- 1. “Remember the Warmth and the Light . . .”
- 2. Back to the Beginning
- 3. A Crack in the Protective Shell
- 4. Facts, Magic, and Imagination
- 5. The Kindness of Strangers
- 6. Sounds of Defiance
- 7. A “Normal” Existence
- 8. Mothers and Daughters
- 9. My Secret Stepsister
- 10. Friend or Enemy?
- 11. The Betrayal
- 12. The Morning After
- 13. Risk-Taking Mothers
- 14. The “Miracle” Moon
- 15. The Hunger Winter
- 16. City of Death
- 17. The Inner World
- 18. Liberation
- 19. The Lucky Ones
- 20. Grief and Celebration
- 21. The Women—Unfinished Stories
- 22. “Something to Care For . . .”
- 23. Babies Everywhere!
- 24. Postwar Shadows
- 25. A Family in Transition
- 26. The Death of a Mother
- 27. “The End of an Era . . .”
- 28. Veterans of War
- 29. The Promise of a Mythical Land
- 30. Tsunami
- 31. Saying Goodbyes
- 32. A Sovereign Woman
- 33. Leaving Amsterdam
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Discussion Questions
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