The Borrowed House

<p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>During World War II a young German girl who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war. New introduction by the author's son John Tepper Marlin.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>So you're falsifying papers? said Janna. You belong to the Dutch Resistance. She looked at him curiously.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>The boy shrugged his shoulders. You could call it that. I'm just helping the van Arkels rescue innocent people from certain death. They need these identification papers and food cards to keep alive. If you betray me all these people will either starve or be forced to give themselves up to be sent to the gas chambers of a concentration camp.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Gas chambers? Janna looked at the boy with horror. You mean ... they are killed?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>The book looked sternly at her. Do you think he said that Germany is sending Jews to a nice vacation spa or to pretty villages with geraniums in the windows? That's what they told us at first though in Holland we never believed it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)><span>������</span>This book is based on a true story and even though it deals with some hard issues brought about by the German occupation of Amsterdam it provides an opportunity to discuss World War II from a unique perspective.</span></p>