![]() ![]() Unfortunately just over a year later the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, bringing their odious attitudes with them, and abuse of Jews throughout occupied Europe became institutionalised. In 1938 she befriended a girl of her own age named Esther whose family relocated to Amsterdam from Germany to escape persecution. This leads to Helena relating her wartime experiences, the horrors of which are all unknown to Jeroen. Sifting through the lifetime’s accumulation stored there he comes across scrapbooks of newspaper headlines and articles pre-dating World War II. Teenage Jeroen visits his grandmother Helena to collect items he can sell at the local flea market, and she directs him to her attic. ![]() ![]() This is a children’s primer of what life was like during the 1940s Nazi occupation of Europe, originally commissioned and published by the Anne Frank House.
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