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This is the story of Henk's War |
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This is a story of daring, of ingenuity - and of a searing contempt for
the jackbooted Germans who overran The Netherlands in May 1940. As the
long years of the German Occupation began, the Dutch royal family and
their advisers escaped to Britain. Rather than join the Allied forces,
Henk Pelser, a young medical student, decided to stay in Amsterdam and
fight the Nazis on his home ground.
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Joining the Resistance, Henk Pelser began by
smuggling copies of an underground newspaper and ended by smuggling
Jews and others sought by the Nazi's across the Netherlands, through
Belgium and France, to eventual safety in neutral Switzerland.
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The underground escape line Henk Pelser set up saved
the lives of scores of people. Pelser was captured and after serving
time in prison was sent to a prisoner of war camp. But his story did
not end there.
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As the Second World War drew to a close, Henk Pelser
found that his Jewish girlfriend, who he had feared dead in a Nazi
concentration camp, was alive. So this book is a love story too -
because alone in an alien country he found her, nursed her back to
health, and brought her home.
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