Geertje

<p>World War II officially ended some seventy years ago but for some people it lives on.</p><p>Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak who spent the war in the Netherlands still recalls the hunger and fear she felt throughout the war-that sticks out more than hearing about the two little boys killed or the blank expression of her father when she visited him in a concentration camp.</p><p>She looks back at the confusion she felt as a child and how she always managed to get food for her family as a seven-year-old-even if it meant breaking curfew to roam the countryside and beg at a farmhouse.</p><p>When the war ended her troubles did not: Her family took in another family because so many homes had been destroyed. They took up three rooms and they had to share the bathroom and she recalls being angry.</p><p>But those early experiences showed her what it meant to suffer which is one of the reasons she's dedicated her life to helping others.</p><p>Join her as she celebrates love and joy and moves past pain in this inspirational account that shows the power of the human spirit.</p>