https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SU%3A%20(NETHERLANDS%20%2B%20HISTORY%20%2B%20GERMAN%20%2B%20OCCUPATION%20%2B%201940%20%2B%201945)&QRYTEXT=Subject%3A%20Netherlands%20--%20History%20--%20German%20occupation%2C%201940-1945%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5486745&CF=BIB When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment's hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via the Amersfoort and Ravensbrück camps. Enduring gruelling conditions and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after Sabine's death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner world and a past she had discussed little. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment's hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via the Amersfoort and Ravensbrück camps. Enduring gruelling conditions and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after Sabine's death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner world and a past she had discussed little.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Taylor, Eva<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : HarperNorth, 2023.<br />211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000101307<br />Patcham Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000101942<br />Saltdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000101451<br />Woodingdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000101524<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5202517&CF=BIB When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment's hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via the Amersfoort and Ravensbrück camps. Enduring gruelling conditions and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after Sabine's death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner world and a past she had discussed little. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment's hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via the Amersfoort and Ravensbrück camps. Enduring gruelling conditions and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after Sabine's death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner world and a past she had discussed little.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Taylor, Eva<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : HarperNorth, 2022.<br />195 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm<br /><br />Hangleton Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000060042<br />Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000059984<br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000059557<br />Rottingdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000059673<br />Whitehawk Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000059843<br />Woodingdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5349 - Available - 95000000059712<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5244934&CF=BIB Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the war. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. Alie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live. Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the war. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. Alie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Carli, Claudia<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.<br />viii, 414 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000060634<br />Saltdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000060811<br />Woodingdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000060899<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5022968&CF=BIB Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the war. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. Alie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live. Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the war. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. Alie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Carli, Claudia<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.<br />viii, 414 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm<br /><br />Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 95000000033268<br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000033597<br />Moulsecoomb Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000033757<br />Patcham Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000033657<br />Portslade Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000033544<br />Whitehawk Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000033780<br />Woodingdean Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 95000000033725<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4881808&CF=BIB Holland, 1940. When her father returns home with a parcel of yellow stars it's clear that life is changing for Marga and her entire family; the Nazi occupation is casting a dark shadow over Amsterdam. But much worse is to come and when the authorities come to the family home, a split decision will have devastating consequences. Holland, 1940. When her father returns home with a parcel of yellow stars it's clear that life is changing for Marga and her entire family; the Nazi occupation is casting a dark shadow over Amsterdam. But much worse is to come and when the authorities come to the family home, a split decision will have devastating consequences.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Minco, Marga<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Ebury Press, 2020.<br />128 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Available - 95000000010751<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4543924&CF=BIB The story of a man's search for the astonishing truth about his family's past. The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship. The story of a man's search for the astonishing truth about his family's past. The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Van Es, Bart<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>UK : Penguin Books, 2019.<br />280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04474364<br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04464124<br />Patcham Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04464775<br />Portslade Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04464430<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4730894&CF=BIB The story of a man's search for the astonishing truth about his family's past. The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship. The story of a man's search for the astonishing truth about his family's past. The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Van Es, Bart<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Leicester : Charnwood, 2019.<br />354 pages (large print)<br /><br />Whitehawk Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult Fiction Large Print - Available - 04503510<br /> https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4414908&CF=BIB The story of a man's search for the astonishing truth about his family's past. The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship. The story of a man's search for the astonishing truth about his family's past. The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Van Es, Bart<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>UK : Fig Tree, 2018.<br />280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm<br /><br />Hove Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04445266<br />Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04445359<br />Westdene Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 940.5318 - Available - 04462668<br />