The Heart Has Reasons: Dutch Rescuers of Jewish Children during the Holocaust, Updated Edition by Klempner Mark

Author:Klempner, Mark [Klempner, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Night Stand Books
Published: 2013-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Where is your husband?”

“He’s been taken already.”

“And your son?”

“He’s away in the hinterlands.”

“There must be a man in the house, for there is a man’s bicycle on the porch.”

They fired at the ceiling, hoping to scare anybody who was hiding into coming out. Then they went stomping through the house. When they flung open the door to the cupboard, we held our breath—but they had no idea it was the entrance to a hiding place. And then my mother started talking about our dog: we had a beautiful husky, a dog from Canada, and she said, “Have you ever seen a dog like this? Isn’t he a handsome dog?” and they said, “Yah, yah, he sure is.” The Nazis loved dogs, so she was able to divert their attention that way. Just then I heard a thumping sound—which startled me terribly until I realized that it was just the dog’s tail beating against the floorboards, something he always did when he was petted.

All the while, that railway man’s heart was pounding like a hammer in his chest—boom, boom, boom. Could they hear it? Thankfully, no. But I must say, my mother was very brave, don’t you think? I do believe that she liked to outsmart them—and she did.

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