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The occupied garden : recovering the story of a family in the war-torn Netherlands / Tracy Kasaboski & Kristen den Hartog.
Record details
- ISBN: 0771026226
- ISBN: 9780771026225
- Physical Description: x, 316 p. : ill.
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and Internet addresses. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Den Hartog family. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Dutch World War, 1939-1945 > Netherlands > Biography. Netherlands > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 949.20710922 DenHa -K | 31681001868587 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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A moving, revealing memoir about a man and his young family during the Nazi occupation of Holland, as told by his granddaughters, one a beloved novelist.
At once a memoir and a social history of a time, The Occupied Garden is the story of a good but poor man, a market gardener, and his fiercely devout wife, raising their young family in Holland during the Nazi occupation. Pieced together by the coupleâs granddaughters, who combed through historical research, family lore, and insights from a neighbourâs wartime diary, the story chronicles how the couple struggled to keep their children from starving, but could not keep them from harm, and reveals the strife and hardship endured not just by them, but by a nation. These experiences, kept from subsequent generations of the family, were almost lost until, long after their deaths, the path of the couple through the war and on to Canada was uncovered. A personal and intimate account within the larger context of a terrorized nation, this is also a story of the bonds and strains among family, told with the haunting, evocative prose for which Kristen den Hartog is known.
