Poldermans, Sophie

Summary: "This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them. They provided Jewish children with safe...

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Publisher / Publication Date: SWW Press 2019

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Wijk, Joop van

Summary: Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold, until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Bep, who was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding, risked her life to protect them, plunging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WIJ

Keilson, Hans

Summary: "An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Jackson, Buzzy

Summary: "A gripping and timely debut novel by award-winning nonfiction writer Buzzy Jackson based on a true story of the life of the heroic Hannie Schaft: a young Dutch woman who joined the Resistance in Holland during World War II and became one of the Nazis' most lethal adversaries. Hannie Schaft, a young woman living in Nazi-occupied Holland, never intended to be a fighter. Her dream was to finish...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023

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Ten Boom, Corrie.

Summary: Tells the story of how a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker became a heroine of the Holocaust Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's death camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chosen Books 2006

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Brady, Tim

Summary: Tells the story of three fearless female resisters during World War II whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2021

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Taylor, Eva

Summary: Drawing on an astonishing archive of letters, which revealed life during wartime, a true story follows a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter and underground war hero who spent two years in three concentration camps during World War II.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZUUR, SABINE TAY