![]() Or the two little girls who come to stay with the Verhagens after their parents are forced into hiding and their absolute faith that St. And so there are some wonderful moments in which their occupiers are outsmarted, like the downed RAF pilot who Joris discovers hiding in an old abandoned windmill and the amusing way that he was he was hidden in plain sight by Joris's Uncle Cor before escaping back to England. The novel is told as a series of connecting vignettes that show how the family quietly worked hard to resist the Nazis. ![]() Now, after four years of Nazi occupation, everyone is hopeful that the Allies will soon arrive. ![]() ![]() Life is hard for the Verhagen family - father, a 4th generation millwright, mother, Dirk-Jan, 14, Joris and Trixie, 4, but because they lived in a working windmill, things were not quite as hard as for others in their small village. Original 1962 Edition, which is what I readīooks about the Netherlands during World War II are generally about the Dutch Resistance, but Hilda van Stockum has focused more on the daily experiences of one very close knit, religious family living, but without ignoring Resistance activities.Īt ten years old, Joris Verhagen can barely remember what life was like before the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940 when he was 4. ![]()
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