Hunger in Holland

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What used to be life like in occupied Holland all the way through World War II? What used to be it like for a nation to find itself overwhelmed by a foreign power? How did people continue to exist the repressive Nazi occupation? This compelling first-person account is an eye-opening experience.

As seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Cornelia, Hunger In Holland chronicles the steady deterioration of normal, on a regular basis life; the loss of freedom and security; and the role of the law as food and many of life’s amenities became scarce. Young Cornelia takes on the responsibility of begging for food and helping to hide her father from the Nazis, who had shipped each and every man they could find to the munitions factory to work for the Nazi war effort. She captures the day by day struggle for survival and vividly illustrates the strength, ingenuity, and dogged determination needed to carry on. Fuykschot sketches the changing lives of peculiar people; their efforts to go to school, to work, to clean house, to find food, to care for some semblance of normalcy against a backdrop of bombing raids and the day by day terror of the Nazis.

Hunger in Holland is a moving description of a horrific period in world history, a testament to people who survived, and a valuable lesson for individuals who have never known the terror of war.

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