Trains and Tulips

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>How do you respond when your country is conquered by enemies?</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>When loving your neighbor could lead to prison or death what do you do?</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Can you still believe God is good when all you see is darkness?</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>On May 10th 1940 Germany invades the Netherlands. And so begins five years of enemy occupation. Rules rations and curfews are implemented. Jews are discriminated against banned from public places forced to wear a yellow star and then hauled off to concentration camps.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>All twenty-year-old Pieter Knies wants is to continue studying theology at Utrecht University and one day become a pastor. But as time passes and the persecution of the Jews increases it becomes harder for him to ignore the Nazis. He becomes convinced that Christ's command to love your neighbor includes the Jews.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Gerrit Vogel a cheerful young farmer who hates injustice is engaged to Pieter's sister Marit. From the moment the Nazis first set foot in his country he knows he cannot simply stand by and do nothing. Marit agrees but what can they do?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>David Meijer is a veterinary student at Utrecht University. But soon he's no longer allowed at the university-because he is Jewish. And things only get worse. When his family is arrested David goes to Gerrit for help and now Gerrit and Marit know what they can do.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Elsje DeLong's life is turned upside down on her eighteenth birthday when a neighbor comes to her with a request: Will you take a Jewish baby and claim her as your own?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Soon Pieter Gerrit Marit David and Elsje find themselves heavily involved in the Resistance. But helping the Jews and standing against the Nazis carries a cost-and for some it will cost everything.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Trains and Tulips</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)> is extensively researched historical fiction with a plot built around the real historical facts of the war. While focusing on fictional characters it is largely inspired by the true stories of World War II heroes such as Corrie ten Boom Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hans Poley Diet Eman and Johanna Ruth Dobschiner.</span></p>