Behind the Fireplace: Memoirs of a Girl Working in the Dutch Resistance
Written by Andrew Scott and Grietje Okma Scott
Narrated by Esther Wane
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She escaped a firing squad four times, and survived the war, mentally scarred by her experiences. She sought help, but the help she was offered came in a poisoned chalice, and she kept her secret to herself for almost fifty years. Her family in Holland was recognized by Yad Vashem, the Israeli organization that records those who saved Jews from the Holocaust, and she was awarded a pension for her work in the Resistance by the Dutch foundation Stichting 1940-1945.
Andrew Scott
Andrew J. Scott is Professor of Economics at the London Business School and consulting scholar at Stanford University's Center on Longevity, having previously held positions at Harvard and Oxford. Through his multi-award-winning research, writing and teaching, his ideas inform a global understanding of the profound shifts reshaping our world and the actions needed for us to flourish individually and as a society. Board member and advisor to a range of corporates and governments, he is co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the advisory board of the Office for Budget Responsibility and the UK Cabinet Office Honours Committee. He lives in London.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extraordinary. Humbling. Hard to imagine anyone surviving the chances against her
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Have such admiration for all those in the Resistance especially those people in this book & this family in particular that, with great risk to their own lives, were willing to stand up and do what was right by defying the Nazis and protect as many Jewish people as was possible. I'm so glad this true story of bravery and courage was able to be told.