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\u2019s son, John Tepper Marlin.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, you\u2019re falsifying papers?\u201d said Janna. \u201cYou belong to the Dutch Resistance.\u201d She looked at him curiously.<\/p>\n
The boy shrugged his shoulders. \u201cYou could call it that. I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGas chambers?\u201d Janna looked at the boy with horror. \u201cYou mean \u2026 they are killed?\u201d<\/p>\n
The book looked sternly at her. \u201cDo you think,\u201d he said, \u201cthat Germany is sending Jews to a nice vacation spa, or to pretty villages with geraniums in the windows? That\u2019s what they told us at first, though in Holland we never believed it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[557,292],"product_tag":[540,627],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n