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By Jack van Ommen

The Mastmakers’ Daughters are cousins. they've got an analogous identify: Rennie de Vries. Our major personality grows up above her father’s mastmaker store in a small seaport at the Zuiderzee. Her 3 12 months more youthful cousin grows up in Germany the place her father all started a mastmaker company. Rennie joins Hitler’s Nazi get together. Our Rennie leads to the second international conflict Resistance. The younger mom is arrested through the Germans. the tale follows her via Dutch prisons and focus camps Vught and Ravensbrück until eventually the interception via the yank seventh military on her loss of life March out of Dachau. the writer controlled to reconstruct one of many first entire debts of the 2 hundred Dutch ladies of the “AGFA-Kommando”. those brave ladies stood united to outlive the horror. They prayed, sang, cried and laughed jointly. Rennie recalls their mystery non secular routines with Corrie and Betsie ten increase. Van Ommen stumbled on a couple of misconceptions and a few stunning evidence in regards to the heroes and villains within the Resistance. The ebook additionally follows the Nazi Rennie after she flees Holland while the 3rd Reich starts to break down. Rennie’s husband saved a diary from the time of his arrest until eventually Rennie’s secure go back. He bought one of many first problems with the “Diary of Anne Frank” from Otto Frank. the 1st half relies on Rennie’s memoirs. it's a very own account of her stories in a small seaport, whilst the fishing and advertisement fleet moved by means of sail and muscle, earlier than working water and electrical energy. Rennie embraces the emancipation and is likely one of the founding individuals of the Dutch identical of our YWCA. such a lot of all, this can be Rennie’s confirmation of her gratitude to be a toddler of God.

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