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PublisherPilgrim Spirit Communications
ISBN-100692529853
ISBN-139780692529850
eBay Product ID (ePID)248770350
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Book TitleSweet Dell : the True Story of One Family's Fight to Save Jews in Nazi-Occupied Holland
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs
Publication Year2015
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorNicholas Briejer
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Nancy Pearl Award for Best Book--Memoir, The Sweet Dell is a hopeful and captivating true story that transports the reader into the dark years of Nazi-occupied Holland. Arrested on October 6, 1943, Dr. Pieter Schoorl listened to the heavy iron doors of a basement cell in the Gestapo's Amsterdam headquarters close behind him. It had been easy for him to hide the first Jew-a blonde-haired, blue-eyed three-year-old. And had Dr. Schoorl and his wife Anne helped only the one child, this would be a far simpler story. But the pleas for help never ended. Dutch commandoes met at the Schoorls' kitchen table, and shot-down Allied pilots shared breakfast with their five children. Jews continually arrived at the Schoorls' farm unannounced in the dark of night. The couple eventually filled their two homes with "guests." When there was no room left, they searched the countryside for more hiding places-addresses as they called them. One hundred forty thousand Jews lived in Holland before the war, fewer than 10,000 would survive. This is the story of how a handful of those survivors endured, a story that invites the reader to consider the price paid to do-in the words of Dr. Schoorl-"what any man should do."
