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Hidden letters
Deborah Slier | Ian Shine

Hidden letters

Star Bright Books (May 2008)
9781887734882
193 pages | 23 x 290 mm | EN
$ 33.95 | Value: $ 9.30
Dewey 940.53/1809492
LC Classification D805.5.M63 .S5413 2008
LC Control No. 2005056290

Subject

  • Biography & Autobiography

Plot

In 1997, when demolishing an old house in Amsterdam, two bundles of letters were found. They were written by a teenager who had been sent by the Nazis to a labor camp in Holland, where he dug ditches from dawn to dusk. These letters are not what you would expect from a teenager. He was courageous and upbeat, and, worried more about his parents than himself. The letters are filled with hope that things will improve ....