Hidden Like Anne Frank by Marcel Prins

Author:Marcel Prins [Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis, Marcel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

We had nothing left after the war. I had to wear what we called kleppers, a kind of wooden sandal. Then my uncle took us to a cobbler in the east of Amsterdam, who made us each a pair of shoes — the only handmade shoes I’ve ever had. The government gave our mother coupons to buy things. But there was nothing to buy. If she heard in the morning that a particular item was going to be on sale that day, she would line up to see if she could get some. She often didn’t return until four in the afternoon.

My mother was broken by the war. Having to struggle to survive for years had made her selfish. She was only really capable of loving herself. And she was jealous of my foster mother, whom I saw more as my real mother, because she was so kind to me. My mother tried to break the bond between my foster mother and me.

In 1981, when my foster mother was seventy, we had a big celebration. She rented vacation homes for all of the children and grandchildren. We traveled by public transportation and were the last to get there. As we entered the room where the party was being held, my foster mother smiled and said, “Good. Now I have all of my children and grandchildren together in one place.”

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