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A Family Secret
A Family Secret
A Family Secret
Eric Heuvel, Lorraine T. Miller
While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War, and mourns the loss of her Jewish best friend, Esther. Helena believes that her own father, a policeman and Nazi sympathizer, delivered Esther to the Nazis and that she died in a concentration camp. But after hearing her story, Jeroen makes a discovery and Helena realizes that her father kept an important secret from her.
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Genre: 

  • Historical Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
A Family Secret review by CAcker
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CAcker
A Huge Allied Assault of the most important bridges by Arnhem and Nijmegen took place on September 17, 1944..." Says Mrs. Helena to her grandson, Jeroen. One day as Jeroen was digging through some old things in his grandmothers attic he had noticed some old news papers that were dated back in the 40's and an old Jewish star. He had gone and asked his grandmother what the papers said, he couldn't read them because it was in German. When he asked about the star Helena had told him that the star had belonged to her best friend because she was a Jew.
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Five Star Award
Content Rating:

Content rating - nothing offensive
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