Our Mother's War: A Biography of a Child of the Dutch Resistance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780595469499)

Christina wanted to capture her mother's story of life in Nazi-occupied Holland. She didn't know how or where to start. Dan suggested that his father, Mel, a former newspaper reporter, could steer her to the starting line. Mel advised Christina to get a recorder and tapes, and ask questions. For the next 15 or so years, she taped her mother's recollections up until her death in 1994.

It took several years for Christina to find Lynette Bourne, a medical transcriber, to copy all the tapes. Then Christina brought the transcriptions to Mel Fiske more than ten years after the death of her mother. What do I do now? she asked plaintively.

Mel took the unedited transcriptions. He began researching the history of the Dutch people under the Nazi occupation to place the story of Christina's mother in proper historical perspective. Our Mother's War is the story of Aluzia Van Dalen but also that of the Dutch people from 1940 to 1945, the darkest of times for them.

Aluzia went through the war with one thought: survival. "I haven't lived yet," she told herself. Our Mother's War recounts her struggle to live.

Author: Mel Fiske
ISBN-10: 0595469493
ISBN-13: 9780595469499
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2007
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d