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Resistance on a Bicycle
Dirk Van Leenen
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Price: $27.95
Paperback | 340 pages
ISBN: 9978-1-58588-961-7 |
 Summary
Before the war in Holland there were 150.000 Jews, After the war there were 40.000, All these had to be hidden, fed and often transported to other locations.The Nazis could not win the war so they decided to starve the citizens of Holland and that way at the same time root out the Jews. The world did not find out that Jews were being killed in the concentration camps until two years into the war and after more than two million Jews had been killed. The author's parents were hiding an average of twenty Jews under the floor of their home in the city of the Hague. At the same time The Author's father distributed food stamps and Fake ID's to the Jews in the hiding places all over the country at great risk of being shot. The Author then a 4 year old boy was riding with his father and acted as a decoy for the Nazis and was packed with the counterfeit papers, id's and food stamps.
About the Author
Born in the Hague Holland and having escaped the holocaust the Author became a Horticulturist. At a later date he studied English at the University of Leiden and became an English teacher. He always told stories about World War II to his children and grand children. They kept urging him to write a book about it. Resistance on a Bicycle is the first book, a follow-up is being written and will be published in the spring of 2008.
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