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Hilda van Stockum

    Hilda van Stockum war eine produktive Autorin und Illustratorin, deren Werke oft aus ihren eigenen Lebenserfahrungen und Familienvorbildern schöpften. Ihr Schreiben, bekannt für seine warmen, lebendigen und realistischen Darstellungen des Familienlebens angesichts von Gefahr und Schwierigkeiten, konzentrierte sich häufig auf Familien und spielte an den Orten, an denen sie lebte. Inspiriert von Briefen von Verwandten während der deutschen Besetzung der Niederlande im Zweiten Weltkrieg verfasste Van Stockum ihr populärstes Werk, das für die Vermittlung eines genauen Einblicks in das Leben unter nationalsozialistischer Besatzung gelobt wurde. Ihre umfangreiche Karriere als Buchillustratorin erstreckte sich über 71 Jahre.

    The Borrowed House
    • The Borrowed House

      • 208 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      During World War II a young German girl, who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war. New introduction by the author's son, John Tepper Marlin. "So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously. The boy shrugged his shoulders. "You could call it that. I'm just helping the van Arkels rescue innocent people from certain death. They need these identification papers and food cards to keep alive. If you betray me, all these people will either starve or be forced to give themselves up to be sent to the gas chambers of a concentration camp." "Gas chambers?" Janna looked at the boy with horror. "You mean ... they are killed?" The book looked sternly at her. "Do you think," he said, "that Germany is sending Jews to a nice vacation spa, or to pretty villages with geraniums in the windows? That's what they told us at first, though in Holland we never believed it." This book is based on a true story, and even though it deals with some hard issues brought about by the German occupation of Amsterdam, it provides an opportunity to discuss World War II from a unique perspective.

      The Borrowed House