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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I wonder if the book covers the bad with the good. I mean the terrible six(?) years that her and her family suffered in Arnhem (and maybe elsewhere), in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation. She was not Dutch, she wasn't even Jewish--it was a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. She and her family suffered terribly in those years. Of course, they weren't alone. There was Corrie ten Boom, for example; but from reading about this part of her life I wonder if her and her family had to suffer as much.
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It does. The chapters on her pre-stardom life devoted a decent-sized section to it. IIRC, despite her family being relatively well-off, the food situation was bad enough that she suffered malnutrition which stunted her growth (although she still managed to get to 5'7" in height) and gave her lifelong health problems, and also she smuggled messages for the resistance in her shoes and had a few close calls when occupying soldiers would stop and talk to her while she was doing so.