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The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague, where she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out after the war put an end of to their relationship. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart's life and Lien's. This is an astonishing portrait of a young girl's struggle to survive war, and her powerful, tumultuous and painful ties with her foster family.
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The cut out girl: a story of war and family, lost and found, Bart Van Es
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- Released
- 2019
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bart Van Es
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0241978726
- ISBN13
- 9780241978726
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Family, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Military History, Germany, Wars, World War II, Teens, Loss, Holocaust, Childhood, Netherlands, Persecution of Jews
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague, where she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out after the war put an end of to their relationship. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart's life and Lien's. This is an astonishing portrait of a young girl's struggle to survive war, and her powerful, tumultuous and painful ties with her foster family.