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The Occupied Garden
Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
by Den Hartog, Kristen & Kasaboski, Tracy
The authors, two Canadian born sisters, share in this book the powerful story of their grandparents, a Dutch market gardener and his very devout wife, who were living a simple life when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Throughout the subsequent occupation, Gerrit and Cor den Hartog struggled to keep their young family from starving and from being broken up, in an era of intimidation, disappearances, and bombings. And one devastating day, they found they were ultimately unable to protect their children from the war…. The book contains moments of breathtaking courage summoned up by everyday citizens, including a desperate escape, acts of resistance and more, some of it uncovered years later by the authors while researching family history.
Paperback, 316 pages, with jacket, illustrated, notes, bibliography
USD 18.50 / CAD 19.95