WHEN A TOY DOG BECAME A WOLF AND THE MOON BROKE CURFEW
A Memoir

I loved this book! The author conveys her childhood memories so legitimately, without being saccharine. This is a book about heroes, survivors, desperation and honesty. Yes the mother and daughter discuss catching a stray cat to eat it. It is a brutal retelling of a city starving to death. Their Jew......more

Hendrika's memoir tells how the war disrupted her life, forming the way her life would proceed. Her father was taken away to a prison camp when she was just a small child and she and her mother had to live on their own. Amsterdam was occupied by the Nazis, and it affected everyone. Food became scarc......more

Henny is a young girl when her father is taken away to a labor camp in Germany from her and her mother. She is afraid when she sees her father behind the barb wire fence to say goodbye before he leaves for the labor camp. She gives him her little toy dog to protect him. As she and her mother go back......more